J. George Shanthikumar, Ph.D is a professor of industrial engineering and operations research at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Shanthikumar served as consultant for KLA-Tencor Corp., and worked on joint development projects with AMD, IBM, Intel, LSI, Motorola, Texas Instruments, Toshiba, Fujitsu, TSMC and UMC. He serves as Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Intermolecular, Inc. He is a co-editor of Flexible Services & Manufacturing Journal, and he has served on numerous editorial boards of technical journals. He has authored or coauthored more than 250 papers and has coauthored three books, “Stochastic Models Of Manufacturing Systems,” “Stochastic Orders And Their Applications” and “Stochastic Orders.” He received a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Sri Lanka and MS and Ph.D. degrees in industrial engineering from the University of Toronto.