Xuming He received his PhD in Statistics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1989. He joined the University of Michigan as H. C. Carver Collegiate Professor in 2011. His prior appointments include faculty positions at the National University of Singapore and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research interests include broad areas of statistical inference, including quantile regression and subgroup analysis. His interdisciplinary research aims to promote the better use of statistics in biosciences, climate studies, concussion research, and social-economic studies.