Professor Kulkarni received his Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering in 1976 from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, and his Doctorate in Operations Research from Cornell University, in 1980. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Statistics and Operations Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Kulkarni is an author of an undergraduate textbook titled Introduction to Modeling and Analysis of Stochastic Systems, and a graduate textbook titled Modeling and Analysis of Stochastic Systems.