He has earned multiple NSF research grants and five teaching awards from three different institutions. He has also authored over 50 research articles in operator theory, complex analysis, matrix analysis, and number theory. Javad Mashreghi is a Professor of Mathematics at Universite Laval, Quebec, where he has been selected Star Professor of the Year seven times for excellence in teaching. His main fields of interest are complex analysis, operator theory and harmonic analysis. He is the author of several mathematical textbooks, monographs and research articles. He won the G. de B. Robinson Award, the publication prize of the Canadian Mathematical Society, in 2004. William T. Ross is the Roger Francis and Mary Saunders Richardson Chair in Mathematics at the University of Richmond, Virginia. He is the author of over 40 research papers in function theory and operator theory and also four books.