Dr. Krishna P. Poudel is an Associate Professor at the Department of Forestry, College of Forest Resources, Mississippi State University. He received his Bachelor’s degree at Tribhuvan University. He received his Master’s degree in Forestry at Louisiana State University and in Statistics at Oregon State University. He completed his PhD studies in Forestry at Oregon State University. His research interests include forest sampling, measurement, and modeling, forest biomass and carbon estimation, applied statistics, small area estimation, and short rotation woody crops.