Mikko J. Sillanpää (male) is a full professor in statistics in the Research Unit of Mathematical Sciences, University of Oulu. He has a long and acknowledged experience in Bayesian statistics and computational methods in high-dimensional problems in biology, medicine and other fields. His research interests cover, e.g., variable selection, functional data analysis and predictive analytics. He is a Director of the University of Oulu HiDyn program 2019-2023 funded by the Academy of Finland PROFI5: multidisciplinary data science and artificial intelligence hub strengthening all of University of Oulu's profiling areas and the 6G Flagship.