Mohammad Arashi is a professor of statistics at the Ferdowsi University of Mashhad and an extraordinary professor at the University of Pretoria. He received a Ph.D. (statistics) from Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran, 2008 and served as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pretoria from 2012 to 2013. He is the co-author of three books with Wiley, co-editor of one book with Springer, and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. He has served on several national and international educational and academic research boards. He has been a keynote and invited speaker at various international conferences. His major includes shrinkage estimation, variable selection, high-dimensional statistics, statistical machine learning, graphical models, and longitudinal data analysis. He is a member of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS), the Bernoulli Society (BS), and the Iranian Statistical Society (ISS). He was the winner of the ISI Jan Tinbergen Award in 2009, elected as the best Iranian young researcher in statistics in 2012, winner of the Dr. Behboodian Award in 2016, and winner of Dr. Bozorgnia 2016.