Congratulations to Professor Jianqing Fan on his recent win of the 2025 Excellence in Mentoring Award from PrincetonUniversity’s School of Engineering and Applied Science.

Fan is the Frederick L. Moore ’18 Professor of Finance at Princeton University and a faculty member of the Economics Department and the Bendheim Center for Finance. The Excellence in Mentoring Award is presented annually to recognize faculty members who have distinguished themselves specifically in mentoring graduate students, post-doctoral fellows and/or faculty colleagues.

Letters of support for Fan’s nomination came from faculty of the SEAS department, former Ph.D. students, and others who have been impacted by his encouragement and guidance. Jason Klusowski, an assistant professor at Princeton ORFE, shared that Fan “models intellectual excellence, generosity of spirit, and unwavering dedication to the success of others” and that his mentorship “has profoundly shaped my development as a scholar, teacher and colleague.”

The Economics Department and BCF applaud Fan for his unwavering dedication to the mentorship of his students, fellows, and colleagues. This award is extremely well-deserved.

About Jianqing Fan

Jianqing Fan joined Princeton in 2003 following positions at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, the University of California-Los Angeles, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He earned a Ph.D. from the University of California-Berkeley and a B.S. degree from Fudan University in China. He was named the Frederick L. Moore Professor of Finance at Princeton in 2006, and he chaired the Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering from 2012 to 2015.

Fan’s research has earned him top honors including the Presidents’ Award from the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS), the Morningside Gold Medal for Applied Mathematics, a Guggenheim Fellowship and, most recently, the 2025 Wald Memorial Award and Lectures from the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. In 2024 he received a commendation for outstanding teaching from Princeton’s School of Engineering and Applied Science. He is a fellow of several societies including the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.