Sartaj Sahni is a Distinguished Professor and Chair of Computer & Information Sciences & Engineering at the University of Florida. He is a member of the European Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of IEEE, ACM, AAAS, and Minnesota Supercomputer Institute, and a Distinguished Alumnus of the IIT, Kanpur. Dr Sahni is the recipient of the 1997 IEEE Computer Society Taylor L Booth Education Award, the 2003 IEEE Computer Society W.Wallace McDowell Award and the 2003 ACM Karl karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award. Dr Sahni received his B.Tech. (EE) degree from the IIT, Kanpur, and MS and PhD degress in Computer Science from Cornell University. Dr Sahni has published over 250 research papers and written 15 texts. His research publications are on the design and analysis of efficient algorithms, parallel computing, interconnection networks, design automation, and medical algorithms.