Tahir Mahmood was born in Sargodha, Punjab, Pakistan, in 1990. He received his BS (Hons.) degree in Statistics with distinction (Gold Medalist) from the Department of Statistics, University of Sargodha, Sargodha, Pakistan, in 2012 and then served as a Teaching Assistant (Contract Lecturer) from September 2012 to January 2015 in the Department of Statistics, University of Sargodha, Sargodha, Pakistan. In 2015, he secured a scholarship from the Deanship of Graduate Studies, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. In April 2017, he received his MS (Applied Statistics) degree from the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, KFUPM. In 2020, he received his PhD (Applied Statistics) from the Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.