Nitis Mukhopadhyay is a Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Connecticut, Storrs. Dr. Mukhopadhyay is the coauthor of Multistage Selection and Ranking Procedures (Marcel Dekker, Inc.), a coauthor of Sequential Estimation, and the author or coauthor of over 130 book chapters and peer-reviewed articles. He is a member of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, the American Statistical Association, the Statistical Society of Canada, the International Indian Statistical Association, and a Life Member of the Calcutta Statistical Association. He received the B.Sc. degree (1970) in mathematics from the University of Calcutta, India, and the M.

Stat. (1972) and Ph.D. (1976) degrees in statistics from the Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta.