Antonio C. Pedroso-de-Lima is an Associate Professor at the Department of Statistics, University of São Paulo, Brazil, and is the co-director of the university's Center for Applied Statistics. He received his doctoral degree in biostatistics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the co-author of a book on introductory statistics, and his research has been published in theoretical, methodological, and applications-oriented journals. Professor Pedroso-de-Lima has advised a number of master's degree and doctoral students in the graduate program in statistics at the University of São Paulo.