Prof. Amir F. Atiya is currently Professor of Computer Engineering Department, Cairo University. He Was born in Cairo, Egypt. He received his B.S. degree in 1982 from Cairo University (Egypt), and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in 1986 and 1991 from Caltech, Pasadena, CA, all in electrical engineering. He held positions in academia, as well as several positions in financial firms. From 1997 to 2001 he was a Visiting Associate at Caltech. On leave from Cairo University, he recently held research positions in the firms Simplex Risk Management, Hong Kong, Countrywide Corporation in Los Angeles, and Dunn Capital Management, Florida. Currently, he is a Research Scientist with Veros Systems, Texas.