Ajay Jasra was born in Bristol, United Kingdom. He received his BSc (Hons, 1st Class) in Mathematics & Statistics from the University of Exeter 2001 and his MSc in Applied Statistics from the University of Oxford in 2002. He completed his PhD in statistics from Imperial College London in 2005. Prof Jasra held several postdoctoral appointments: University of Oxford (2005), University of Cambridge (2006), Chapman Fellow of Mathematics, Imperial College London (2006-2008) and the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Japan (2008). Prof Jasra held his first faulty position at Imperial College London (2008-2011) as assistant professor (lecturer) in the statistics section of the Department of Mathematics. He then moved as Associate Professor (with tenure) at the National University of Singapore (NUS) (2011-2019), in what was then Department of Statistics and Applied Probability (*). At NUS, he held a Deans’ chair associate professor position and was also deputy head of department. From 2019-2024 he was at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) as Professor of Applied Mathematics and Computational Science and Statistics. 2021-2024 Prof Jasra was the Associate Dean for Faculty at the CEMSE division, KAUST. Since January 2024 Prof Jasra is Professor of Data Science (with tenure) at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen.