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Yili Hong, professor of statistics in the College of Science at Virginia Tech, has been appointed to the Data Science Faculty Fellowship.

The Data Science Faculty Fellowships were established by the College of Science in 2021 to enhance the national and international prominence of Virginia Tech faculty in this field. The fellowships provide support for outstanding scholarship in data science or the application of data science techniques within and across disciplines.

Hong joined the Department of Statistics in 2009 as an assistant professor. He currently serves as professor and co-director of the VT Statistics and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Hong’s role in shaping the future of data science is demonstrated in multiple ways with research designed to address three fundamental questions: how to collect data, how to interpret data, and how to use data to predict the future, which are the core tasks at the heart of data science.