Moshe Lewenstein received his Ph.D. from Bar-Ilan University in 2000. He spent the year 2000 in New York University as a visiting assistant professor. During the years of 2001 and 2002 he was with IBM Research in Yorktown Heights, NY in the department of Mathematical Sciences as the recipient of the prestigious Herman Goldstine postdoctoral fellowship. In late 2002 he joined the faculty of the Computer Science department in Bar Ilan University, where he is a full Professor since 2012. From 2007-2010 he served as the department chair. During the year 2012-2013 he was a visiting professor in the Computer Science department of the University of Waterloo, Canada. He was a Gambrinus Fellow at Dortmund University in 2014. Since 2015 he is dean of Exact Sciences in Bar Ilan University. Lewenstein's research is on algorithms with a special emphasis on data structures, texts and hardness in P. He currently advises several Ph.D. and M.Sc. students and has graduated numerous others. He has authored over 70 papers, edited several books, serves as an editor of JDA and served on numerous PC committees, co-chairing CPM 2016, SPIRE 2013 and CPM 2006. Lewenstein is regularly invited to give talks around the world among them the plenary talks at IWOCA 2007, CPM 2012, and the Annual Haifa Workshop on Interdisciplinary Applications of Graph Theory, Combinatorics and Algorithms in 2002.