Dr. Song is Professor of Biostatistics at the School of Public Health in the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He received his PhD in Statistics from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada in 1996.  He has published over 200 peer-reviewed papers and graduated 22 PhD students and trained 6 postdoc research fellows.  Dr. Song's current research interests include data integration, distributed inference, high-dimensional data analysis, longitudinal data analysis, mediation analysis, spatiotemporal modeling, and smart health. He collaborates extensively with researchers from nutritional sciences, environmental health sciences, chronic diseases, and nephrology. He is IMS Fellow, ASA Fellow and Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute. Dr. Song now serves as Associate Editor of the Journal of American Statistical Association, the Annals of Applied Statistics, and the Journal of Multivariate Analysis.