Leonid Shaikhet received a M.S. in Mathematics from Donetsk State University (Ukraine) in 1971; a Ph.D. (Candidate of Science) from the Kiev Institute of Mathematics in 1981; and a Dr. Phys.-Math. Sc. from Kiev State University in 1991. From 1992–2015, he was a Professor and the Head of the Mathematical Department at Donetsk State University of Management. For the last five years, he has been a Research Professor at Tel-Aviv University and Ariel University (Israel). His basic research interests include stability and optimal control of stochastic time-delay systems. He is the author of five publications: 1. Andreyeva E.A., Kolmanovskii V.B., Shaikhet L.E. Control of hereditary systems. Moscow, Nauka, 1992 (in Russian). 2. Kolmanovskii V.B., Shaikhet L.E. Control of systems with aftereffect. American Mathematical Society, 1996. 3. Shaikhet L. Lyapunov Functionals and Stability of Stochastic Difference Equations. Springer, 2011. 4. Shaikhet L. Lyapunov Functionals and Stability of Stochastic Functional Differential Equations. Springer, 2013. 5. Shaikhet L. Optimal control of stochastic difference Volterra equations. An Introduction. Springer, 2015.