Ying Sun (ying.sun@kaust.edu.sa) is an Associate Professor in the Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering Division of the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Thuwal, Saudi Arabia (KAUST), where she leads a multidisciplinary research group on environmental statistics, dedicated to developing statistical models and methods for space-time data to solve important environmental problems. She joined KAUST in June 2014 after one-year service as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics at The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA.