Jeffrey Yi-Lin Forrest

Jeffrey Yi-Lin Forrest holds all his educational degrees (BSc, MS, and PhD) in pure mathematics, respectively, from Northwest University (China), Auburn University (United States), and Carnegie Mellon University (United States), where he has one-year postdoctoral experience in statistics. Currently, he is a guest or specially appointed professor in economics, finance, systems science, and mathematics at several major universities in China, including Huazhong University of Science and Technology, the National University of Defense Technology, and Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and a tenured professor of mathematics at the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (Slippery Rock campus). Since 1993, Dr. Forrest has been serving as the president of the International Institute for General Systems Studies, Inc. Along with various professional endeavors he has organized, Dr. Forrest has had the honor to mobilize scholars from more than 80 countries representing more than 50 different scientific disciplines.