Professor Rekha Srivastava was an adjunct professor at the University of Victoria in British Colombia, Canada. She obtained a B.Sc. degree from Utkal University in 1962, an M.Sc. from Banaras Hindu University in 1965, and a Ph.D. from Banaras Hindu University in 1967. She was the first woman in the entire state of Odisha to have received a Ph.D. in Mathematics. Prof. Srivastava was formally given a Distinguished Service Award at the Eighteenth Annual and the First International Conference of the Vijnana Parishad (Science Academy) of India (Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India) on 14 December 2015, which she obtained for her outstanding contributions to Mathematics and for the distinguished services she rendered to the Vijnana Parishad of India. Her research interests are in Mathematical Analysis and Applied Mathematics, as well as Fractional Calculus and its applications.