M. Ataharul Islam was a QM Hussain Professor at the Institute of Statistical Research and Training, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. He was a former Professor of Statistics at the University of Dhaka, University Sains Malaysia, King Saud University and the East West University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. He served as a visiting faculty at the University of Hawaii and University of Pennsylvania. He is a recipient of the Pauline Stitt Award, Western North American Region (WNAR) Biometric Society Award for content and writing, East West Center Honor Award, University Grants Commission Award for book and research, Ibrahim Gold Medal for research, etc. He has published more than 100 papers in international journals on various topics, extensively on 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, conditional and joint models for correlated outcomes. He has authored books with leading publishers, including Springer, on Foundations of Biostatistics, Analysis of Repeated Measures Data, Markov Models, and Reliability and Survival Analysis, and contributed chapters to several others.Soma Chowdhury Biswas is currently a Professor at the Department of Statistics, University of Chittagong, Bangladesh. She did her graduation and Master of Science (M.Sc.) degrees in Statistics from University of Dhaka, Bangladesh and completed Graduate Diploma (G.D.) and Masters (M.A.) from Australian National University, Canberra, Australia and obtained her PhD from Jamal Nazrul Islam Research Center for Mathematical & Physical Sciences (JNRCMPS), University of Chittagong, Bangladesh. Her areas of interest are bio-statistics, inference, modeling Markov Chain & demography.
