Marc Teboulle is a Professor in the School of Mathematical Sciences at Tel-Aviv University. He received his D.Sc. from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology in 1985, and has held appointments at the Israel Aircraft Industries, Dalhousie University and the University of Maryland, and visiting positions in various academic institutions in France and the USA. His research interests are in the area of continuous optimization theory, algorithmic analysis and its applications, and has published numerous papers and two books in these areas. He currently serves on the editorial board of Mathematics of Operations Research, and the European Series in Applied and Industrial Mathematics, Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations. He served as chairman of the Department of Statistics and Operations Research at the School of Mathematical Sciences of Tel-Aviv University during 1999-2002.