Dr. Hongwei Mei obtained his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics in August 2016 from Wayne State University. He was a visiting assistant professor at the University of Central Florida (2016-2017) and the University of Kansas (2017-2020). Before joining TTU, he was a post-doc fellow in the Department of Statistics, Rice University. Dr. Mei is an applied probabilist, and his research interests include stochastic analysis, stochastic control and optimization, and optimal stopping. In those years, he has published several papers in SICON, SPA, JDE, ESAIM-COCV, etc.