Prof. Dr. Jong-Min Kim received his Ph.D. from Oklahoma State University in Statistics in May 2002. He joined the University of Minnesota at Morris in August 2002. He also joined the University of Minnesota Data Science Initiative as a Core Member in May 2024. He is a member of the American Statistical Association—ASA Outstanding Statistical Application Award Committee (2025–2027), General Director (2023–2024), and Board Member (2023–2028) of the Korean International Statistical Society, Council of Chapter Representatives (2021–2025) American Statistical Association-Twin Cities Chapter, and Statistics Discipline Coordinator, University of Minnesota at Morris. His research involves Statistical Genetics, Quality Control, Financial Time Series Analysis, Survey Sampling, Cluster Analysis, AI and Big Data Analytics, Text Mining for Patent Data, Copula Directional Dependence, fMRI Data Analysis, Cryptocurrency Data Analysis, and Functional Data Analysis.