Farouq M. A. Alam, an Associate Professor of Computational Statistics, is currently the Head of Department of Statistics at the Faculty of Science at King Abdulaziz University. He received both the B.S. degree in Statistics/Computer Sciences and the M.S. degree in Statistics from King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia, in 2005 and 2009, respectively. Afterwards, he completed my Ph.D. degree at McMaster University in 2017, under the supervision of the inimitable Professor N. Balakrishnan at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. His research interest includes various topics in computational statistics.