On May 8-10, 2023, the Statistical Foundations of Data Science and their Applications conference took place in Princeton, along with a celebration of ORFE Professor Jianqing Fan’s 60^th birthday. The three-day event featured over 30 invited speakers and several panels, and was co-sponsored by ORFE and Princeton’s CSML, PACM, Center on Contemporary China and BCF, as well as external academic and industrial partners.  Professor Fan, the Frederick L. Moore Professor in Finance, is a statistician, financial econometrician and data scientist.  He has been a professor in the ORFE department since 2003 and chaired the department from 2012-2015.