We are delighted to announce that Ping Li will join our faculty, jointly appointed as an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science (49%) and Department of Statistics (51%). Professor Li joins us from Cornell, where he was an assistant professor in the Department of Statistical Science and in the Faculty of Computing and Information Science. He holds a Ph.D. in Statistics and Masters degrees in Electrical Engineering and in Computer Science, all from Stanford University. Among his several honors and awards are a 2013 AFOSR Young Investigator award and a 2009 ONR Young Investigator award. His research interests are in machine learning and randomized algorithms for large data sets.