Prof. Dr. Boleslaw K. Szymanski is a Claire and Roland Schmitt Distinguished Professor at the Department of Computer Science and the Director of the ARL Social and Cognitive Networks Academic Research Center at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the National Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland, in 1976. He is a foreign member of the National Academy of Science in Poland, an IEEE Fellow, and a member of the IEEE Computer Society and the Association for Computing Machinery, for which he was a National Lecturer. Prof. Dr. Szymanski’s research interests span from network science, with emphasis on social networks and wireless computer and sensor networks for the analysis and design of distributed algorithms and simulation of computers, networks, and biological/ecological phenomena. He received the Wiley Distinguished Faculty Award in 2003 and the Wilkes Medal of the British Computer Society in 2009.