George A. Anastassiou was born in Athens, Greece in 1952. He received his B.SC degree in Mathematics from Athens University, Greece in 1975. He received his Diploma in Operations Research from Southampton University, UK in 1976. He also received his MA in Mathematics from University of Rochester, USA in 1981. He was awarded his Ph. D in Mathematics from University of Rochester, USA in 1984. During 1984-86 he served as a visiting assistant professor at the University of Rhode Island, USA. Since 1986 till now 2020, he is a faculty member at the University of Memphis, USA. He is currently a full Professor of Mathematics since 1994. His research area is “Computational Analysis” in the very broad sense. He has published over 700 research articles in international mathematical journals and over 55-monographs, proceedings and textbooks in well-known publishing houses. Several awards have been awarded to George Anastassiou. In 2007 he received the Honorary Doctoral Degree from University of Oradea, Romania. He is associate editor in over 90 international mathematical journals and has been editor in-chief in 3 journals, most notably in the well-known “Journal of Computational Analysis and Applications”.