Reza Malek-Madani received his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Brown University in 1979. He joined the faculty of the Mathematics Department at the U. S. Naval Academy in 1983, where he has served since. In 1996 he assumed the position of the of the Director of Research and Scholarship at USNA. In the year 2000 Reza Malek-Madani became a part-time detailee to the Office of Naval Research where he has served since in the capacity of the Program Manager for the Computational Analysis Program.