Bme.hu conducted a joint interview with Timothy E. O'Brien and Roland Molontay. The US visiting lecturer at BME is a Professor of Applied and Environmental Statistics at Loyola University Chicago who has been teaching and conducting research at BME in the Fall of 2021 with the support of a prestigious Fulbright Scholarship. In this interview, Professor O'Brien explains why he joined our lab and how his stay has been in Budapest. Roland Molontay was asked about what the arrival of the Fulbright scholar meant for BME and HSDSLab.