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## **About the Editors**

#### **Farouk Nathoo**

Farouk Nathoo received his B.Sc. in Mathematics and Statistics (combined honours) from the University of British Columbia in 1998, his M.Math. from the University of Waterloo in 2000 and his Ph.D. in statistics at Simon Fraser University in 2006. He joined the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Victoria in 2006, and became a Full Professor in 2021. He currently holds the Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Biostatistics for Spatial and High-Dimensional data. His research interests focus on Bayesian Methods, High-dimensional Data, Statistical Computation, Neuroimaging Statistics, and Machine Learning.

#### **S. Ejaz Ahmed**

Ejaz Ahmed is professor and Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Science. Before joining Brock, he was a professor and head of Mathematics at the University of Windsor and University of Regina. Prior to that, he had a faculty position at the University of Western Ontario. Further, he is a Senior Advisor to Sigma Analytics (Data Mining and Research), Regina.

His research achievements have been recognized with honours and awards, including the prestigious status of Fellow of the American Statistical Association, editor/associate editorship to influential scientific journals, adjunct/visiting professorships, and invited scholarly talks around the globe. He has supervised numerous Ph.D./Master students and Post-doctoral Fellows. He is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute and a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society. He served as a Board of Director and Chairman of the Education Committee of the Statistical Society of Canada.
