Mohamed A. Tawhid earned his PhD in Applied Mathematics from the University of Maryland Baltimore County, Maryland, United States. From 2000 to 2002, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Faculty of Management, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Currently, he is a Professor at Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada. He has published more than 75 peer-reviewed research papers, 13 book chapters and edited four special issues in international journals. He has also co-authored a book published by Springer. His research has been funded by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) grants. Moreover, he has served on several journals' editorial boards and worked on several industrial projects in Canada.