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Panos M. Pardalos serves as Distinguished Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Florida. Additionally, he is the Paul and Heidi Brown Preeminent Professor in Industrial & Systems Engineering. He is also an affiliated faculty member of the Computer and Information Science Department, the Hellenic Studies Center, and the Biomedical Engineering Program. He is also the Director of the Center for Applied Optimization. Dr. Pardalos is a world leading expert in global and combinatorial optimization. His recent research interests include network design problems, optimization in telecommunications, e-commerce, data mining, biomedical applications, and massive computing. Professor Pardalos has received numerous awards and honors, which include Constantin Carathéodory Prize; 2013 EURO Gold Medal (EGM); Honorary Doctor of Science Degree, Wilfrid Laurier University; 2007 Senior Fulbright Specialist Award;  Honorary Member of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences; Degree of Honorary Doctor, N.I. Lobachevski State University of Nizhni Novgorod, Russia; Fellow of AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science); Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE); Foreign Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; Foreign Member “Petrovskaya Academy of Sciences and Arts”, Russia; and Foreign Member “Lithuanian Academy of Sciences”. He was the Founding Editor and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Global Optimization and Optimization Letters. Currently he is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of “Energy Systems”, and the Journal of “Computational Management Science”. He also serves as a member of the Editorial Board of numerous internally highly reputable scholarly journals.