Boris S. Mordukhovich is a Distinguished University Professor of Mathematics at Wayne State University. His areas of research include optimization and variational analysis, control theory, nonlinear systems, generalized differentiation, and various applications. Professor Mordukhovich has authored more than 400 publications including two volumes in Springer’s Grundlehren series entitled “Variational Analysis and Generalized Differentiation.” He is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) and the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).