Jayant Rajgopal received the Ph.D. degree in industrial and management engineering from the University of Iowa, IA, USA. Since 1986, he has been with the Faculty of the Department of Industrial Engineering, the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. His current professional interests include mathematical modeling and optimization, production, operations and supply chain analysis, and applications of operations research to healthcare delivery. He has taught, conducted sponsored research, published or consulted in all of these areas. He has more than 90 refereed publications in books, conference proceedings, and scholarly journals, including IIE Transactions, Operations Research, Mathematical Programming, Naval Research Logistics, Technometrics, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, OR Letters, American Journal of Public Health and Vaccine. Dr. Rajgopal is a Senior Member of IIE and INFORMS, and a Licensed Professional Engineer in the state of Pennsylvania.