The Institute of Probability and Statistics in School of Mathematics and Statistics, Lanzhou University was established in 2002. Currently, there are 2 professors, 8 associate professors and lecturers, who work as permanent members of the institute, the number of faculty members increases every year in the last few years. The research topics include that statistical learning, financial statistics, reliability theory, data mining, et ac. Meanwhile, there are also several distinguished Chinese statistics from abroad, e.g., Lixing Zhu, who is associated with the faculty as guest professors.(By May,7,2012)