Professor Anoop Chaturvedi recently superannuated as Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Allahabad. He served the university for 38 years as senior lecturer, reader and professor. He is involved in several academic/ administrative bodies of the University and was Head of the Department of Statistics for about seven years. He is a fellow of royal statistical society. He has published two edited volumes entitled “Handbook of Applied Econometrics and Statistical Inference”, Marcel Dekker, USA, and “Some Recent Developments in Statistical Theory and Applications”, Brown Walker Press, USA. He also published about hundred research papers in various national/ international journals. His recent research interests include Shrinkage estimation in Linear Models, Dynamic Models, panel data models, data mining in Bioinformatics, Bayesian Unit Root and co integration Tests, and Control Charts for auto correlated data. Professor Chaturvedi has visited Pantheon Assas University of Paris, University of Wollongong, Australia, Bond University, Gold Coast, Australia, City University of Hong Kong, Tilburg University, Tilburg, Netherlands and several other universities as visiting research fellow, visiting lecturer and visiting professorial fellow. He has supervised twenty-one research students for Ph.D. degree and worked on six research projects. He is involved in editorial and refereeing activities of several journals.