Professor Zhang Jin-Ting is from Guangdong Province, China. He obtained his bachelor's degree from Peking University in 1988, his master's degree from the Institute of Applied Mathematics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1991, and his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1999. Professor Zhang conducted postdoctoral research at Harvard University and served as a senior visiting scholar at several universities, including Princeton and Rochester in the United States. He is currently a tenured professor in the Department of  Statistics and Data Science at the National University of Singapore, where he also mentors Ph.D. students and postdoctoral researchers.

To date, Professor Zhang has supervised ten master's students, ten Ph.D. students, and nine postdoctoral research fellows. He has published over 80 academic papers, authored two monographs on statistics, and edited one volume of collected academic papers. He currently serves, or has served, as an associate editor or editorial board member for several academic journals. Additionally, he has been part of the organizing committee for six major international conferences. His current research areas include nonparametric statistics, longitudinal data analysis, functional data analysis, high-dimensional data analysis, and more.