Zhi-Quan (Tom) Luo received the B.Sc.\ degree in applied mathematics in 1984 from Peking University, Beijing, China. During the academic year of 1984 to 1985, he studied at the Nankai Institute of Mathematics, Tianjin, China. From 1985 to 1989, he studied at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received the Ph.D.\ degree in operations research. In 1989, he joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, where he is now a professor. His research interests lie in the union of large-scale optimization, information theory and coding, data communication and signal processing. Prof.\ Luo is a member of IEEE, SIAM and MPS. He is presently serving as an associate editor for {\it Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications}, {\it SIAM Journal on Optimization}, {\it Mathematics of Computation}, and {\it Optimization and Engineering}.