​Hernando Ombao is Professor of Statistics at KAUST. He is the leader of the Biostatistics Group within the Statistics Program. He develops statistical models for time series with dynamic and complex structures. Prior to coming to KAUST, he was a faculty member at UC Irvine, Brown University, University of Illinois and the University of Pittsburgh. He is Co-Editor of the Handbook of Statistical Methods for Neuroimaging. He was principal investigator of several US NSF awards. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA). He serves the community as a member of the editorial board of Statistics journals and as chair-elect of the Statistics in Imaging Section of the ASA.