Artur Czumaj is a Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Centre for Discrete Mathematics and its Applications (DIMAP) at the University of Warwick. He received his PhD and Habilitation degree from the University of Paderborn in Germany. His main research interest is in the design of randomized algorithms and their probabilistic analysis, with applications to property testing and sublinear algorithms, optimization algorithms, parallel and distributed computing, string matching, and algorithmic game theory.