Fuxia Cheng is a Professor at the Department of Mathematics ,  Illinois State University. She holds a Master and a PhD degree in Statistics from Michigan State University (USA), a PhD degree in Applied Mathematics from Tsinghua University, a Master degree in Mathematics from Fudan University and a Bachelor in Mathematics from Shandong University. She has published papers in peer-reviewed journals such as Annals of Statistics, Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Sankhya A: the Indian Journal of Statistics, Journal of Nonparametric Statistics, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, Statistics & Probability Letters, Statistical Inference for Stochastic Processes, Communications in Statistics---Theory and Methods, Biometrics, Bioinformatics, Statistics, Metrika, etc. She has been on the editorial board of several journals.