Alexey Alexandrovich Koloydenko received the B.S. degrees in physics and mathematics (with information systems minor) in 1994 from Voronezh University, Russian Federation and Norwich University, Northfield, VT, USA, respectively, the M.S.(tech.) degree in physics and radio-electronics from Voronezh State University, Russian Federation and the M.S. degree in mathematics and statistics from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, both in 1996 and the Ph.D. degree in mathematics and statistics from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, in 2000. He held postdoctoral research and teaching positions with the Department of Mathematics and Statistics of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Statistics and Computer Science Departments of the University of Chicago, and Eurandom, The Netherlands, in 2000, 2001–2002, and 2002–2005, respectively. He was a Lecturer in Statistics at the University of Nottingham, U.K., in 2005 to 2008, and has been a lecturer in Probability Theory and Statistics at Royal Holloway, University of London. His research interests include statistical processing and analysis of images, diffusion weighted MRI, statistical and machine learning, particularly hidden Markov models, and also algebraic aspects of probability theory and statistics. Dr. Koloydenko has been a member of the British Machine Vision Association and Society for Pattern Recognition and a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society since 2009.