Dr. Hao Helen Zhang is a statistician and professor in mathematics at the University of Arizona. Dr. Zhang’s research agenda includes statistical machine learning, high-dimensional data analysis, nonparametric smoothing, and biomedical data analyses. She has more than 15 years of research and teaching experiences in machine learning for predictive data analytics and is co-author of the textbook Principles and Theory for Data Mining and Machine Learning. Additionally, she serves as a faculty member of the University of Arizona Statistics Graduate Interdisciplinary Program, and is associate editor of the Journal of the American Statistical Association, Journal of Royal Statistical Society, Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, and Statistical Analysis and Data Mining, and as the Editor-in-chief of the journal STAT. She is a fellow of the American Statistical Association, fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and the 2019 IMS Medallion Lecturer.