Prof. Daniel Alpay is a faculty member of the department of mathematics at Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel. He is the incumbent of the Earl Katz Family chair in algebraic system theory. He has a double formation of electrical engineer (Telecom Paris, graduated 1978) and mathematician (PhD, Weizmann Institute, 1986). His research includes operator theory, stochastic analysis, and the theory of linear systems. Daniel Alpay is one of the initiators and responsible of the dual track electrical-engineering mathematics at Ben-Gurion University. He is the author of "An Advanced Complex Analysis Problem Book" (Birkhäuser, 2015). Together with co-authors, he has written seven books and close to 240 research papers, and edited fifteen books of research papers, and in particular the Springer Reference Work on Operator Theory.