Professor Edwin K. P. Chong received the B.E.(Hons.) degree with First Class Honors from the University of Adelaide, South Australia, in 1987, and the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in 1989 and 1991, respectively, both from Princeton University, where he held an IBM Fellowship. He joined the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University in 1991, where he was named a University Faculty Scholar in 1999. Since August 2001, he has been a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Professor of Mathematics, at Colorado State University. He has served as department head since July 2022. He coauthored the best-selling book, An Introduction to Optimization, 5th Edition, Wiley, 2023. He received the NSF CAREER Award in 1995 and the ASEE Frederick Emmons Terman Award in 1998. He was a co-recipient of the 2004 Best Paper Award for a paper in the journal Computer Networks. In 2010, he received the IEEE Control Systems Society Distinguished Member Award. Professor Chong is a Fellow of the IEEE, AAAS, AAIA, and AIIA. He was founding chairman of the IEEE Control Systems Society Technical Committee on Discrete Event Systems and served as an IEEE Control Systems Society Distinguished Lecturer. He has served as a Senior Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control and on the editorial boards of Computer Networks and the International Journal of Control Science and Engineering. He was the General Chair for the joint 50th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference, 2011. He was on the Board of Governors of the IEEE Control Systems Society and served as its Vice President for Financial Activities until 2014. He then served as President in 2017, after which he served as Treasurer for the IEEE Educational Activities Board (EAB) in 2018.