Dr. Debdeep Pati received his Ph.D. in Statistics from Duke University in 2012, prior to being on the faculty at Florida State from 2012-2017, at Texas A&M from 2017-2024 and at UW-Madison from 2024 onwards. His research focuses on understanding statistical and computational trade-off for probabilistic inference in complex models. His research received the JASA reproducibility award in 2023 and he was the recipient of the Young Researcher Award from the International Indian Statistical Association in 2017 and obtained an honorable mention for Leonard J. Savage award for best Bayesian dissertation in the theory and methods section in 2013.