Joydeep Dutta, Professor in the Department of Economic Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. His research interest primarily involves convex optimization, variational inequalities, bilevel programming and applications of optimization in Economics. He had collaborated with famous mathematicians across the world including Alexander M. Rubinov, Jonathan M. Borwein, Boris. S. Mordukhovich, Juan Enrique Martinez-Legaz, Stephan Dempe, Michel Thera, Christiane Tammer, Didier Aussel and Regina Burachik.