Dr. Edward Gbur is currently Director of the Agricultural Statistics Laboratory in the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station and a Professor of Statistics in the College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences at the University of Arkansas. He received a Master of Science degree in Mathematics and a Doctorate in Statistics from The Ohio State University. He is a member and Fellow of the American Statistical Association and a member of the International Biometric Society and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.

His current research interests include experimental design, generalized linear mixed models, regression modeling, spatial statistics, stochastic modeling, survey sampling and applications of statistics in the agricultural sciences. Dr. Gbur has authored and co-authored numerous refereed articles in statistics and a variety of subject matter journals. He is the lead author of a book entitled "Analysis of Generalized Linear Mixed Models in the Agricultural and Natural Resources Sciences" published in 2012 by the American Society of Agronomy. Dr. Gbur has served as a referee for both statistics and subject matter discipline journals and has taught a variety of theoretical and applied statistics courses at both the undergraduate and graduate level.