Eduardo Sontag received his undergraduate degree from the University of Buenos Aires and his Ph.D., from the University of Florida, both in mathematics. In January 2018, after a 40-year career at Rutgers, he became a University Distinguished Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering and in BioEngineering at Northeastern University. He has authored over five hundred research papers and monographs and book chapters, and is a fellow of IEEE, AMS, SIAM, and IFAC. Sontag has been awarded several major prizes, including the Reid Prize in Mathematics by SIAM, the 2002 Bode Prize and the 2011 Control Systems Field Award by the IEEE.