M. Ataharul Islam is currently QMH Professor at ISRT, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. He is a former professor of statistics at the University Sains Malaysia, King Saud University, University of Dhaka and East West University, and was a visiting scholar at the University of Hawaii and University of Pennsylvania. He is the recipient of Pauline Stitt Award, WNAR Biometric Society Award for content and writing, University Grants Commission Award for book and research, and the Ibrahim Gold Medal for research. He has published more than 100 papers in international journals, on various topics, particularly longitudinal and repeated measures data, including multistate and multistage hazards models, statistical models for repeated measures data, Markov models with covariate dependence, generalized linear models, and conditional and joint models for correlated outcomes. Abdullah Al-Shiha is currently a professor of statistics at the Department of Statistics and OperationsResearch, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He has published in international journals on various topics, particularly experimental design. He is the author of a book, and co-author of two books. In addition to his academic career, he has worked as a consultant and as a statistician with several governmental and private institutions. He has also received several research grants.
