William E. Schiesser, PhD, ScD (hon.), is Emeritus McCann Professor of Biomolecular and Chemical Engineering and Professor of Mathematics at Lehigh University. His research interests include numerical software; ordinary, differential algebraic, and partial differential equations; and computational mathematics. Dr. Schiesser is the author or coauthor of fifteen books, including Differential Equation Analysis in Biomedical Science and Engineering: Ordinary Differential Equation Applications with R and Differential Equation Analysis in Biomedical Science and Engineering: Partial Differential Equation Applications with R, both published by Wiley.