Dr. S. Ejaz Ahmed is Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Science and a Professor of Statistics at Brock University. Before joining Brock, he was a professor and head of the Mathematics & Statistics Department at the University of Windsor and University of Regina. Prior to that, he was an assistant professor at the University of Western Ontario. He is an elected fellow of the American Statistical Association and holds many adjunct professorship positions. His areas of expertise include big data analysis, statistical inference, and shrinkage estimation. He has more than 150 published articles in scientific journals and has reviewed more than 100 books. Further, he has written several books, edited and co-edited several volumes and special issues of scientific journals. He has supervised numerous PhD and master’s students and organized several workshops/conferences and many invited sessions. Dr. Ahmed serves on the editorial board of many statistical journals and asa review editor for Technometrics. He served as a Board of Director and Chairman of the Education Committee of the Statistical Society of Canada, and as a VP communication for ISBIS. Recently, he served as a member of an Evaluation Group, Discovery Grants and the Grant Selection Committee, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.