Sonali Das is an Associate Editor at the Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry and also an Associate Professor at the University of Pretoria with research interests in Bayesian Methods, Applied Statistics, Statistical Modelling, Structural Equations Modelling, and Path Analysis, Longitudinal Data Analysis, Risk Analysis, Extreme Value Theory, Non-Parametric Methods, Clustering, Functional Data Analysis, Nonparametric methods, Building Trans-disciplinary Research Teams and Consulting.