Professor Jian Ding received his B.S. from Peking University in 2006 and his Ph.D. from The University of California, Berkeley, in 2011. He has been a postdoc at Stanford and a faculty member at the University of Chicago and the University of Pennsylvania. Jian Ding is currently a chair professor at Peking University. Ding works on probability theory, emphasizing its interactions with statistical physics, theoretical computer science, and statistical learning theory. He is also interested in probability questions arising from "application-oriented" problems. With various coauthors, he has contributed to topics including random constraint satisfaction problems, random planar geometry, random field Ising models, random walks in random environments, and random Schrödinger operators. In prestigious mathematical journals like The Annals of Mathematics, Inventions Mathematicae, Acta Mathematica, Duke Math. J., and Comm. Pure Appl. Math., Ding has published more than ten articles. Moreover, Ding has received a few recognitions, including a Sloan Fellowship (2015), Rollo Davidson Prize (2017), ICM invited lecture (2022), ICCM gold medal (2022), Xplorer Prize (2023), the Loève Prize (2024), ICMP plenary lecture (2024).