Dr. H. D. Vinod, Professor of Economics at Fordham University, New York. He won the IBM fellowship at Harvard University, earning his Ph.D.in Economics. Among many awards, he is a Fellow of the Journal of Econometrics. Vinod has published over 230 research papers in refereed top economics and statistics journals. He has co-edited with the great statistician Dr. C. R. Rao three volumes 11, 41, and 42 of the Handbook of Statistics. His book titles include Recent Advances in Regression Methods, Advances in Social Science Research Using R, and Preparing for the Worst: Incorporating Downside Risk in Stock Market Investments. Dr. Vinod was the first to solve the optimal clustering problems with integer programming and use inventory theoretic demand analysis. Additionally, he has pioneered a maximum entropy bootstrap method for statistical inference for time series and new nonparametric tools for causality assessment. His R packages have been downloaded over 162 thousand times and his papers have been cited, according to Google Scholar, over 18877 times by other researchers.Vinod’s early work on ridge regression for solving collinearity problems in Econometrics was recognized in 2020 in the Significance Magazine, published by The American Statistical Association and the Royal Statistical Society of the UK. It mentions how Vinod’s canonical ridge has become crucial for so-called regularization in modern data science.