Yehenew G. Kifle currently holds the position of tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), USA. Prior to joining UMBC, he held the position of Associate Professor of Statistics at both the University of Limpopo in South Africa and Jimma University in Ethiopia. He obtained his B.Sc. in Agronomy (2001) from Alemaya University, an M.Sc. in Statistics (2006) from Addis Ababa University, and obtained his Ph.D. in Statistical Data Analysis from Ghent University, Belgium in 2013. His research encompasses various areas in statistics, including time-to-event modeling, frailty models, clustered data modeling, multivariate methods, and statistical meta-analysis.