Alan J. Laub is a Distinguished Professor in the Departments of Mathematics and Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has served on the editorial boards of numerous leading journals and is a member of SIAM, IEEE and ACM. He has authored or co-authored over 200 technical papers on his research interests in numerical linear algebra, scientific computation and computer-aided control system design. He is the author of Matrix Analysis for Scientists and Engineers (2005).