Roy L. Streit (SM'84) was born in Guthrie, OK, on October 14, 1947. He received the B.A. degree (with honors) in mathematics and physics from East Texas State University, Commerce, in 1968, the M.A. degree in mathematics from the University of Missouri, Columbia, in 1970, and the Ph.D. degree in mathematics from the University of Rhode Island, Kingston, in 1978.He is currently an Adjunct Associate Professor of the Department of Mathematics, University of Rhode Island. He was a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Operations Research, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, during 1981-1982. He joined the staff of the Naval Underwater Systems Center, New London, CT (then the Underwater Sound Laboratory), in 1970. He is an Applied Mathematician and has published work in several areas, including antenna design, complex function approximation theory and methods, and semi-infinite programming. He is currently conducting research in towed array design and hidden Markov models.