Azizur Rahman, is an applied statistician and data scientist with expertise in both developing and applying novel methodologies, models and technologies. He is the Leader of “Statistics and Data Mining Research Group” within the Data Science Research Unit in the Faculty of Business, Justice and Behavioural Sciences at Charles Sturt. He is able to assist in understanding multi-disciplinary research issues within various fields including how to understand the individual activities which occur within very complex scientific, socio-economic and ecological systems. Dr. Rahman earned his PhD from the National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling (NATSEM) at the University of Canberra in 2011. His 2020 and 2016 books have contributed significantly to the fields of “data science and policy analysis” and “small area estimation and microsimulation modelling” respectively. He has more than 100 scholarly publications including a few books. He obtained the SOCM Research Excellence Award-2018 and the CSU-RED Achievement Award-2019.