Anthony Bloch is the Alexander Ziwet Collegiate Professor of Mathematics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He has received various awards including a Presidential Young Investigator Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Simons Fellowship, and he is Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), and the American Mathematical Society (AMS). He has served on the editorial boards of various journals and is currently Editor-in-Chief of the SIAM Journal of Control and Optimization.