Carey E. Priebe received the BS degree in mathematics from Purdue University in 1984, the MS degree in computer science from San Diego State University in 1988, and the PhD degree in information technology (computational statistics) from George Mason University in 1993. From 1985 to 1994 he worked as a mathematician and scientist in the US Navy research and development laboratory system. Since 1994 he has been a professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Whiting School of Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. At Johns Hopkins, he holds joint appointments in the Department of Computer Science, the Center for Imaging Science, and the Whitaker Biomedical Engineering Institute. He is a past President of the Interface Foundation of North America - Computing Science & Statistics, a past Chair of the American Statistical Association Section on Statistical Computing, current Vice President of the International Association for Statistical Computing, and on the editorial boards of Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, and Computational Statistics. His research interests include computational statistics, kernel and mixture estimates, statistical pattern recognition, statistical image analysis, and statistical inference for high-dimensional and graph data. He is an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute and a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.