Boris Mordukhovich is Distinguished University Professor of Mathematics at Wayne State University holding also Chair Professorship of Mathematics and Statistics at the King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals. He has more than 350 publications including several monographs. Among his best known achievements are the introduction and development of powerful constructions of generalized differentiation and their applications to broad classes of problems in variational analysis, optimization, equilibrium, control, economics, engineering, and other fields. Mordukhovich is a SIAM Fellow, an AMS Fellow, and a recipient of many international awards and honors including Doctor Honoris Causa degrees from six universities over the world. He is named a Highly Cited Researcher in Mathematics by the Institute of Scientific Information (ISI). His research has been supported by continued grants from the National Science Foundations. Nguyen Mau Nam received his B.S. from Hue University, Vietnam, in 1998 and a Ph.D. from Wayne State University in 2007. He is currently Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Portland State University. He has around 30 papers on convex and variational analysis, optimization, and their applications published in or accepted by high-level mathematical journals. His research is supported by a collaboration grant from the Simons Foundation.