Dr. Jay Breidt, Senior Fellow in the Statistics and Data Science Department of NORC at the University of Chicago, is Professor Emeritus and past Chair of the Department of Statistics at Colorado University. Dr. Breidt has expertise in time series, uncertainty quantification, and design and analysis of complex surveys. Dr. Breidt has over 100 refereed publications and over 150 invited short courses, conference talks, and academic seminars. Since 1991, his research has been supported continuously by a variety of agencies including the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, Department of Homeland Security, Environmental Protection Agency, US Forest Service, and NASA. Dr. Breidt has served as Reviews Editor for the Journal of the American Statistical Association and The American Statistician and has been an associate editor for seven different journals. He has served on six review committees for the National Academy of Sciences. He is past Chair of the American Statistical Association National Committee on Energy Statistics (an advisory panel for the Energy Information Administration, US Department of Energy) and has served two terms on the Federal Economic Statistics Advisory Committee. Dr. Breidt has received numerous honors, including recognition with a national prize in environmental statistics, elected membership in the International Statistical Institute, and elected fellowship in the American Statistical Association and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.