Changbao Wu is Professor of Statistics at the University of Waterloo. He has done extensive research on the design and analysis of complex surveys. He received the CRM-­SSC Prize in Statistics in 2012 and was named Fellow of ASA and Elected Member of ISI in 2014. He has served as an Associate Editor for several statistical journals including Biometrika, Journal of the American Statistical Association and The Canadian Journal of Statistics.

Mary E. Thompson is Distinguished Professor Emerita in Statistics at the University of Waterloo. She is a leading expert on survey methodology and the author of the book Theory of Sample Surveys (1997). She has received numerous awards and honors including the Gold Medal of Statistical Society of Canada and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.