Dr. P. Dhanavanthan holds Ph.D. degree in Statistics from University of Madras, Tamilnadu. He has over 33 years of teaching and research experience and has taught Distribution Theory at Masters Level at University of Madras and Pondicherry University since 1986. He has co-authored a book on Statistical Inference published by PHI, that is widely used in Indian Universities. Besides, he has published research papers in several national and International Journals.

K.M.Sakthivel, Ph.D., is currently serving as Professor in the Department of Statistics, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu. With the more than two decades of experience in the field of teaching and research, he published more than forty research papers in the national and international reputed journals. He also guided many students in Statistics leading to the degree M.Phil and Ph.D. He is life member of Indian Society for Probability and Statistics(ISPS), International Indian Statistical Association(IISA), Society for Statistics and Computer Applications(SSCA), Indian Bayesian Society (IBS) and Indian Association of Productivity, Quality and Reliability (IAPQR).