David Zuckerman received his Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley in 1991 under the supervision of Umesh Vazirani. Since 1994 he has been on the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin. His research interests lie primarily in the role of randomness in computation, particularly pseudorandomness and its relationship to other topics in complexity theory, coding theory, and cryptography. His hobbies include dancing and Scrabble.