Masayo Hirose received her Ph.D. degree in Engineering from Osaka University, Japan, in 2014. She is now an assistant professor at the Institute of Mathematics for Industry of Kyushu University, Japan. Her research interests include a model-based Approach to Small Area Estimation, linear mixed Models, and Empirical Bayes estimation. She has been a visiting research scholar at the University of Maryland, College Park, since Oct. 2024.