Dr. Md. Nurul Haque Mollah received his B.Sc. (Hons.) and M.Sc. degrees in Statistics from the University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh. He joined the Department of Statistics, University of Rajshahi, as a lecturer in 1996 and was then promoted to assistant professor, associate professor, and professor in 1999, 2005, and 2010, respectively. He completed his Ph.D. in Statistical Science at the Institute of Statistical Mathematics (ISM), Tokyo, Japan, in 2005. He also worked as a post-doctoral researcher covering statistical bioinformatics from 2006 to 2008 at ISM, Tokyo, Japan. His research specialization covers biostatistics, robust statistical inference, statistical signal processing, data mining, big data analysis, bioinformatics, and computational biology. He has published more than 130 research articles in reputed international journals and 150 articles in the proceedings of national and international conferences. He has supervised more than 50 research students at master's and Ph.D. level. He has successfully led, as the principal investigator (PI), several research projects funded by the RU, UGC, NST, BANBEIS, BMRC, and the World Bank. He has also organized several national/international workshops, seminars, and conferences as a convener/co-convener. He is also the founding president of the BioRGRU (Bioinformatics Research Group of Rajshahi University) and the BBCBA (Bangladesh Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Association).