Rod Donnelly was born in Vancouver, B.C., Canada, in 1958. He received the Bachelor degree in mathematics from Imperial College, London, U.K., in 1980 and the Masters degree in electrical engineering from Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Nfld., Canada, in 1983.He is presently a Ph.D. student in the Mathematics Department at Carleton University, Ottawa, Ont., Canada. His research interests include signal processing, EM propagation and functional analysis with application to constructive quantum field theory.