Michael Schuckers is the Charles A. Dana Professor of Statistics at St. Lawrence University in Canton, NY. An applied statistician he has received funding from the US National Science Foundation, the US Department of Defense and the US Department of Homeland Security. He is the author of over three dozen publications including Computational Methods for Biometric Authentication (Springer, 2010). Additionally, Schuckers has done work in sports analytics particularly ice hockey including consulting with a MLB team and an NHL team. For his work in this area, he was named a American Statistical Association's Section on Statistics in Sports "Significant Contributor". In 2013-14, he was a Fulbright Scholar via the Fulbright-VTT Grant in Science, Technology and Innovation in Espoo, Finland. Schuckers obtained his Bachelor's degree from Penn State, a Master's from the University of Michigan and a Doctorate in Statistics from Iowa State University.