Saumya Debray is Professor of Computer Science at The University of Arizona, where he has been a faculty member since August 1986. Prior to this, he received a B.Tech. Hons. degree in Electronics and Electrical Communications Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, in 1981; and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science, from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, in 1983 and 1986 respectively.