Elena A. Erosheva is Professor of Statistics and Social Work, and a core member of the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA. She has PhD in Statistics from Carnegie Mellon, USA; MS in Statistics from Utah State University, USA; and a BS in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics from Novosibirsk State University, Russia. She has published her research in statistical methodology and applications for the social sciences in a range of journals including PNAS, The Lancet, Psychometrika, Annals of Applied Statistics and the Journal of the American Statistical Association. She is a recipient of the 2013 Mitchel Prize from the International Society for Bayesian Analysis. In 2014, she won the NIH award of the Most Creative idea for Detection of Bias in Peer Review, together with Carole J. Lee. Erosheva’s recent work on racial disparities among Black and White grant applications to the National Institutes of Health, published in Science Advances in 2020, has received considerable media attention in the USA.