Cathy W.S. Chen is a distinguished professor in the Department of Statistics at Feng Chia University, Taiwan. She has significantly contributed to the fields of Bayesian inference, diagnostics, model comparison, and forecasting. In addition, she has advanced Bayesian methodology in econometrics and applications of statistics in epidemiology research. She became an elected member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) in 2008, and in 2010, received the Chartered Statistician (CStat) title from the Royal Statistical Society, a formal recognition of her statistical qualifications, professional training, and experience. She is also a fellow of the American Statistical Association, the Royal Statistical Society, and the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA). Professor Chen has made considerable contributions through her editorial work. Since 2021, she has served as co-editor for Computational Statistics and as an associate editor for several prestigious journals.