Dr. Syamal Kumar Sen (sksenfit@gmail.com), a former professor of Indian Institute of Science (I.I.Sc.), Bangalore and that of Florida Institute of Technology, USA, is director of GVP-Prof. V. Lakshmikantham Institute for Advanced Studies, Visakhapatnam, India. He received his B.Sc. (Hons.) in Physics from Calcutta University in 1961, During 1962-65, he did an applied science course on computers from the Electronics Division of Indian Statistical Institue (ISI), Kolkata, which was responsible along with Jadavpur University, Kolkata for designing and developing India's first second generation digital computer ISIJU-1 that worked for ten years (1965-75) in the campus of Jadavpur University. He then joined Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore as a teaching staff and also obtained his M.Sc. (Engg.) and Ph.D. (Engg.) from I.I.Sc. in computational science in 1970 and 1973, respectively. While as a faculty of I.I.Sc. he served, on leave from I.I.Sc. several universities ouside India. He has been an Indo-US Fulbright fellow for senior teachers in 1991 and received IEEE 2008 Outstanding Recognition Award by IEEE Canaveral Section for outstanding support to the IEEE Canaveral, USA, and published over 200 research articles in refereed international journals such as IEEE Trans. Computers, Mathematical and Computer Modelling, Acta Applicande Mathematicae, International Journal of Computer Mathematics, Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Application, International Journal of Control, and International Journal of Systems Science. Besides, he has authored/co-authored eight books including a couple of research monographs such as Computational Errors and Complexity in Science and Engineering Elsevier, Amsterdam (2005), and Pi, e, Phi with Matlab: Random and Rational Sequences with Scope in Supercomputing Era, Cambridge Scientific Publishers, UK (2011) in addition to several book chapters. Dr. Sen's was the principal investigator of the solar energy projects viz. IP Modeling for Optimal Growth of Thin Films: and Efficiency of Solar Cells: Making Modeling More Attractive to Experimentalists, sponsored by Florida Solar Energy Center (FSEC), University of Central Florida, Cocoa, Florida, during 2006-08.