Shmuel Onn is a Professor of Operations Research at IE&M, Technion. He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1992 and is a frequent visitor of the Mathematical Research Institutes at Berkeley, Banff, Oberwolfach, and ETH Zürich. He is a recipient of the 2010 INFORMS Computing Society Prize, 2009 IBM Faculty Award, 2005 Henry Taub Prize, and 2005 ORSIS Prize, and is author of the research monograph Nonlinear Discrete Optimization published by the European Mathematical Society in September 2010.