B. S. Daya Sagar (M’2003, SM’2003) is a Professor (Higher Administrative Grade, HAG) of the Systems Science and Informatics Unit (SSIU) at the Indian Statistical Institute, and Head of the Indian Statistical Institute – Bangalore Centre. Sagar received the M.Sc and Ph.D degrees from the Faculty of Engineering, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, India, in 1991 and 1994 respectively. He is also the first Head of the SSIU. Earlier, he worked in College of Engineering, Andhra University, and Centre for Remote Imaging Sensing and Processing (CRISP), The National University of Singapore in various positions during 1992-2001. He served as Associate Professor and Researcher in the Faculty of Engineering & Technology (FET), Multimedia University, Malaysia during 2001-07. His research interests include mathematical morphology, GISci, digital image pro-cessing, fractals and multifractals their applications in extraction, analyses, and modeling of geophysical patterns. He has published over 90 papers in journals, and has authored and/or guest edited 14 books and/or special theme issues for journals. He authored a book entitled “Mathematical Morphology in Geomorphology and GISci,” CRC Press: Boca Raton, 2013, p. 546. He co-edited a special issue on “Filtering and Segmentation with Mathematical Morphology” for IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing (v. 6, no. 7, p. 737-886, 2012). His recent book on “Handbook of Mathematical geosciences: Fifty Years of IAMG”, Springer Publishers, p. 942, 2018 crossed the downloads of over one million. He edited a two-volume Encyclopedia of Mathematical Geosciences (Springer Nature, 1756 pages) and was released in 2023. He is an elected Fellow of Royal Geographical Society (1999), Indian Geophysical Union (2011), Indian Academy of Sciences (2022), Indian National Science Academy – INSA (2024), and was a member of New York Academy of Science during 1995-96. He received Dr. Balakrishna Memorial Award from Andhra Pradesh Akademi of Sciences in 1995, Krishnan Gold Medal from Indian Geophysical Union in 2002, and ‘Georges Matheron Award-2011 (with Lecturership)” of International Association for Mathematical Geosciences (IAMG), IAMG Certificate of Appreciation – 2018, and the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing (GRSS) Distinguished Lecturer (DL) since 2020. Hs is a Member of Honors and Recognition Committee of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) for 2022-25. He is the Founding Chairman of Bangalore Section IEEE GRSS Chapter. He is on the Editorial Boards of Computers & Geosciences (Elsevier), Frontiers: Environmental Informatics, Mathematical Geosciences (Springer). More details about him can be seen at http://www.isibang.ac.in/~bsdsagar