Patriotism, plus ‘a love for education and science’, amid Trump research cuts, sees leading US statistician Liu Jun return to China
Liu Jun, one of the world’s leading statisticians and a long-time professor at Harvard, has returned to China full-time, accepting a prestigious chair at Tsinghua University last month.
In 1988, Liu Jun transferred from Rutgers University in New Jersey to the University of Chicago, studying under statistician Wing Hung Wong.
The student movement he supported did not occur in Chicago, but in Beijing.
This question was a turning point for Liu. After careful consideration, he decided to pursue a career in maths.
