Nagaraj K. Neerchal, Ph.D., is Professor of Statistics and Chair of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. A SAS user since 1982, he specializes in SAS/STAT and SAS/ETS. Coauthor of more than a dozen journal articles, he received his B.S. and M.S. from the Indian Statistical Institute and his Ph.D. from Iowa State University. Dr. Neerchal received the Distinguished Achievement Award and Medal from the American Statistical Association's Section on Statistics and the Environment in 2000.