主讲人简介: Y. L. Tong was born in Qingdao, Shandong Province; he received his B. S. degree from Taiwan University, and M. S. and Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. Currently he is Professor Emeritus, School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology and Visiting Professor, United International College. His areas of research include theory of inequalities, reliability theory, and multivariate statistics, with special emphasis on the applications of probability inequalities to system reliability and multivariate statistical analysis. He has authored and co-authored four research-level books and many technical papers in those and other related areas. He is Fellow of the American Statistical Association, Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and an elected Ordinary Member of the International Statistical Institute.