Michel C. Delfour is a professor of mathematics and statistics at the University of Montreal and is the author or coauthor of 13 books and about 200 papers. Delfour's areas of research include shape and topological optimal design, analysis and control of delay and distributed parameter systems, control and stabilization of large flexible space structures, numerical methods in differential equations and optimization, and transfinite interpolation. He is a Fellow of SIAM, the Canadian Mathematical Society, the Academy of Science at the Royal Society of Canada, and, formerly, the Guggenheim Foundation.

