Prof. Dr. Hizir Sofyan is currently serving as the Director of Graduate School of Universitas Syiah Kuala, Indonesia. The position he held since May 2022. Prior to his present appointment, he was Vice Rector for Planning, Cooperation, and Public Relation Affairs (2018-2022), the Vice Rector for Academic Affairs (2014-2018), the Dean at Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences (2011-2014) and the Head of Mathematics Department (2004-2011) in the same university. He obtained his B.Sc in statistics from Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology Surabaya, Indonesia in 1992 and his doctoral degree at the Institute of Statistics and Econometrics, School of Business and Economics, Humboldt- Universitat zu Berlin, Germany in 2003. His supervisors were Prof. Wolfgang Haerdle (Chair of Statistics Department, HU Berlin) and Prof. Oliver Guenther (President of Potsdam University). His areas of expertise include computational statistics, information technology, disaster staistics, big data and applied statistics. Furthermore, He is a professor at the Statistics Department, Syiah Kuala University. He is one of the initiators of the Indonesia-Malaysia-Thailand Growth Triangle International Conference on Mathematics, Statistics, and Their Applications (IMTGT ICMSA) which has been held every year up to 19 times. The IMTGT ICMSA was first held at North Sumatera University, Indonesia (2005) and the 19th conference was held at Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (2024). He is one of the board of directors of ordinary members International Association Statistical Computing – Asian Regional Section (IASC – ARS) from 2023 to 2027. He is also chair of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) Outreach Committee on South East Asia since 2020. He has actively participated in many international conferences on higher education and has been invited as speaker or forum's panelist in many countries such as Japan, Marocco, Germany, USA, Singapore, Thailand, and Malaysia.