Daniel Lokshtanov is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at UCSB. He received his PhD in Computer Science (2009), from the University of Bergen. Lokshtanov spent two years (2010-2012) as a Simons Postdoctoral Fellow at University of California at San Diego, and 6 as a faculty at the Department of Informatics at the University of Bergen. His main research interests are in graph algorithms, parameterized algorithms and complexity. He is a recipient of the Meltzer prize, the Bergen Research Foundation young researcher grant, and of an ERC starting grant on parameterized algorithms. He is a co-author of the recent textbooks on Parameterized Algorithms [http://parameterized-algorithms.mimuw.edu.pl/] and Kernelization [https://kernelization.ii.uib.no/]