Ilan Adler is a Chancellor’s professor in the department of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering at the University of California in Berkeley, which he joined in 1970, and served as a chair in 2003 (acting) and 2005-2008. Professor Adler holds a BA in Economics and Statistics from the Hebrew University in Israel (1966), an MS in Operations Research from the Technion in Israel (1967), and a PhD in Operations Research from Stanford (1970). Professor Adler is an affiliated Professor (2016-2020) at Tsinghua University, and a faculty member in the Tsinghua-Berkeley-Shenzhen-Institute (TBSI).