Gauss M. Cordeiro received his PhD in Statistics at Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London, in 1982. Currently, Cordeiro is a Class A researcher of the Brazilian Research Council-CNPq, full professor at Federal University of Pernambuco (Brazil) and Member of the Graduate Program in Statistics at the same university. He was also president of the Associação Brasileira de Estatística, 2000-2002. He was one of the founder editors of the Brazilian Journal of Probability and Statistics and the Editor in Chief of this journal between 1995-2000. In 2010, Cordeiro awarded from the Brazilian Government the National Medal for Scientific Merit at the Order of Comendador. He is a member of the Academy of Sciences of Pernambuco (Brazil). Cordeiro's main research interests in statistics include asymptotic theory, probability distributions and regression models. Dr. Cordeiro is Editor-in-Chief of the statistical journal Stats of MDPI publishers He has published more than 410 papers in international statistical journals.