Shige Peng received his PhD in 1985 at Université Paris-Dauphine, in the direction of mathematics and informatics, and 1986 at University of Provence, in the direction of applied mathematics. He now is a full professor in Shandong University. His main research interests are stochastic optimal controls, backward SDEs and the corresponding PDEs, stochastic HJB equations. He has received the Natural Science Prize of China (1995), Su Buqing Prize of Applied Mathematics (2006), TAN Kah Kee Science Award (2008), Loo-Keng Hua Mathematics Award (2011), and the Qiu Shi Award for Outstanding Scientists (2016).