David Morton is Engineering Foundation Professor in the Graduate Program in Operations Research in the Mechanical Engineering Department at The University of Texas at Austin. His research interests include computational stochastic programming and simulation-based approximations in stochastic programming. He received his PhD in Operations Research from Stanford University, and then worked as a National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow in the Operations Research Department at the Naval Postgraduate School. He received a PECASE award and was a Fulbright Scholar in the Department of Probability and Mathematical Statistics at Charles University in Prague.