**About the Editor**

**Hari Mohan Srivastava** has held the position of Professor Emeritus in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Victoria in Canada since 2006, having joined the faculty there in 1969, first as an Associate Professor (1969–1974) and then as a Full Professor (1974–2006). He began his university-level teaching career right after having received his MSc degree in 1959 at 19 years of age, from the University of Allahabad in India. He compelted his PhD in 1965 while he was a full-time member of the teaching faculty at the Jai Narain Vyas University of Jodhpur in India. He holds numerous visiting research and honorary chair positions at many universities and research institutes in different parts of the world. Having received several DSc (honoris causa) degrees, as well as honorary memberships and honorary fellowships from many scientific academies and learned societies around the world, he is also actively associated editorially with numerous international scientific research journals. His current research interests include several areas of pure and applied mathematical sciences, such as real and complex analysis, fractional calculus and its applications, integral equations and transforms, higher transcendental functions and their applications, q-series and q-polynomials, analytic number theory, analytic and geometric inequalities, probability and statistics, and inventory modelling and optimization. He has published 33 books, monographs, and edited volumes, 36 book (and encyclopedia) chapters, 48 papers in international conference proceedings, and more than 1300 scientific research articles in peer-reviewed international journals, as well as the forewords, editorials and prefaces to many books and journals, etc. He is a Clarivate Analytics (Thomson-Reuters) (Web of Science) Highly Cited Researcher. For further details on his other professional achievements and scholarly accomplishments, as well as honors, awards, and distinctions, including lists of his most recent publications, such as journal articles, books, monographs and edited volumes, book chapters, encyclopedia chapters, papers in conference proceedings, forewords to books and journals, etc., please see: http://www.math.uvic.ca/˜ harimsri/.
