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Marc G. Genton is Al-Khawarizmi Distinguished Professor of Statistics at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. He received his PhD (1996) from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne. He is a fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA), the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI). In 2010, he received the El-Shaarawi Award from the International Environmetrics Society and the Distinguished Achievement Award from the ASA Section on Statistics and the Environment; in 2019, an ISI Service Award; in 2020 he was the Georges Matheron Lecturer for the International Association for Mathematical Geosciences. He led a Gordon Bell Prize finalist team with the ExaGeoStat software for SC22. He received the Royal Statistical Society 2023 Barnett Award and the prestigious 2024 Don Owen Award from the ASA’s San Antonio Chapter.