Leonid P. Yaroslavsky, MS, (Summa cum laude, 1961), Ph.D. (1968), Dr. Sc. Habilitatus.in Phys.&Math, (1982), OSA Fellow. From 1965 till 1983, the head of a group of Digital Image Processing and Digital Holography at the Institute for Information Transmission Problems (IITP), Russian Academy of Sciences. From 1983 till 1995, the founder and head of the Laboratory of Digital Optics at the IITP. From 1995 till 2008, a full Professor at the Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University. Presently a Professor Emeritus. A visiting Professor at University of Erlangen, Germany; National Institute of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA; Institute of Optics, Orsay, France; Institute Henri Poincare, Paris, France; International Centre For Signal Processing, Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland; Agilent Laboratories, Palo Alto, Ca, USA; Gunma University, Kiryu, Japan; Autonomous University of Barcelona. Supervised 20 Ph. D. candidates. An author and editor of more than 20 books and numerous peer reviewed publications on digital image processing and digital holography.