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Authors
Jeffrey Yi-Lin Forrest, also known as Yi Lin, holds all his edu-
cational degrees (BS, MS, and PhD) in pure mathematics,
respectively, from Northwestern University (China) and Auburn
University (USA) and had one year postdoctoral experience in
statistics at Carnegie Mellon University (USA). Currently, he is
a guest or specially appointed professor in economics, finance,
systems science, and mathematics at several major universi-
ties in China, including Huazhong University of Science and
Technology, National University of Defense Technology,
Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and a ten-
ured professor of mathematics at ...