Raghu Kacker is a mathematical statistician in the Mathematical and Computational Sciences Division (MCSD) of the Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). He received his Ph.D. in statistics from the Iowa State University in 1979. Dr. Kacker is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and a Fellow of the American Society for Quality. He was elected member of the International Statistical Institute. He has received Bronze medal from the U.S. Department of Commerce and Distinguished Technical Staff Award from the AT&T Bell Laboratories. He was member of an NIST team that developed software to assay large parallel processing programs, which won R&D 100 award. He is a member of the editorial boards of the journals Total Quality Management and Journal of Applied Statistics.