Will Wei Sun is a Professor of Quantitative Methods and University Faculty Scholar at Purdue University’s Daniels School of Business, with a courtesy appointment in Statistics. He is also a part-time Research Scientist at Meta. His research focuses on the statistical foundations of large language models and trustworthy reinforcement learning. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Office of Naval Research, and the Ross-Lynn Research Scholar Fund. Dr. Sun is an Associate Editor for the Annals of Applied Statistics and currently serves as Chair of the AI in Statistics initiative at the National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS).