Dr. Yuri A. Iriarte is Assistant Professor at the Department of Statistics and Data Science, Universidad de Antofagasta, Chile. He holds a Ph.D. in Statistics from the Inter-Institutional Graduate Program in Statistics jointly offered by the Federal University of São Carlos and the University of São Paulo, Brazil. His research focuses on the development of flexible statistical distributions, with applications in regression modeling, reliability, and survival analysis. He has authored numerous peer-reviewed articles and actively participates in interdisciplinary research in engineering, public health, and environmental sciences.