Howell Tong

Howell Tong
Native name	湯家豪
Born	1944 Hong Kong
Citizenship	British
Nationality	British
Fields	Statistics
Institutions	Northern Polytechnic London (1967-8) University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (1968-82) Chinese University of Hong Kong (1982-5) University of Kent (1986-99) University of Hong Kong (1997-2004) London School of Economics (1999-2009) University of Electronic Science and Technology, China (2016-now)
Alma mater	University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology
Known for	Threshold models; Nonlinear time series; Chaos; Minimum average variance estimation; Non-likelihood statistics
Influences	Hirotugu Akaike; Peter Whittle
Influenced	Kung-Sik Chan; Cees Diks; Barbel Finkenstaedt; Simone Giannerini; Manfred Mudelsee; Ken Siu; Qiwei Yao
Notable awards	Foreign Member of Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters Guy Medal in Silver, Royal Statistical Society, U.K. State Prize for Natural Sciences, China Honorary Fellow of the Institute and Faulty of Actuaries, U.K. Distinguished Achievement Award, International Chinese Statistical Association

Howell Tong (simplified Chinese: 汤家豪; traditional Chinese: 湯家豪; pinyin: Tāng Jiāháo; born 1944 in Hong Kong) is a pioneer and an acknowledged authority in the field of nonlinear time series analysis, linking it with deterministic chaos. He is the father of the threshold time series models, which have extensive applications in ecology, economics, epidemiology and finance.

He is a Distinguished Professor-at-Large (特聘講席教授） of the University of Electronic Science and Technology, China. Since October 1, 2009, he has been an Emeritus Professor at the London School of Economics and was twice (2009, 2010) holder of the Saw Swee Hock Professorship of Statistics at the National University of Singapore. He was a Distinguished Visiting Professor of Statistics at the University of Hong Kong from 2005 to 2013.

Tong left Wah Yan College 香港華仁書院 (founded by the Irish Jesuits in 1919) in Hong Kong in 1961 and was sent by his father to complete his matriculation at the Barnsbury School for Boys in North London (-one of the earliest comprehensive schools in England, now no longer in existence). He got his Bachelor of Science in 1966 (with first class honours in Mathematics), Master of Science in 1969 and Doctor of Philosophy in 1972, all from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), where he studied under Maurice Priestley. Tong remained at UMIST first as a lecturer and then as a senior lecturer. While in Manchester, he started his married life with Mary Leong. In 1982, he moved to the Chinese University of Hong Kong where he was the founding Chair of Statistics. Four years later, he returned to England to be Chair of Statistics at the University of Kent at Canterbury until 1999. From 1999 to September 2009, Tong was a Chair of Statistics at the London School of Economics and founded the Centre for the Analysis of Time Series. Between 1997 and 2004, Tong was also Chair Professor of Statistics, Founding Dean of the Graduate School and later Pro-Vice Chancellor, University of Hong Kong.

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