Dr. Davender S. Malik is a Professor of Mathematics and the first recipient and current holder of The Frederick H. and Anna K. Scheerer Endowed Chair in Mathematics at Creighton University. He received his Ph.D. from Ohio University in 1985 and has published more than fifty papers and eighteen books on applied mathematics, programming, abstract algebra, fuzzy automata theory and languages, graph theory, fuzzy logic and its applications, data structures, and discrete mathematics.