Satyanshu K. Upadhyay received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, in 1980 and 1984, respectively. He started his teaching career as a Lecturer in statistics in the year 1981. He is currently a Professor and the Head of the Department of Statistics, Banaras Hindu University. He is also linked with DST Centre for Interdisciplinary Mathematical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University as a core group Researcher. He received a number of distinctions in his career, and worked as an EEC Research Bursary at Imperial College, London, during the year 1992--1993. His research interests include preliminary test procedures, life testing and reliability, biostatistics, and Bayes inferences. He has published several research papers, books, and other academic materials in his career. Dr. Upadhyay is associated with a number of academic bodies and also the Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society.