Hon Keung Tony Ng received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in statistics from McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, in 2000, and 2002, respectively. He is currently a Professor with the Department of Statistical Science, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, USA. He is an associate editor of Communications in Statistics, Computational Statistics, Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, and Statistics and Probability Letters. His research interests include reliability, censoring methodology, nonparametric methods and statistical inference. Dr. Ng is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute.