SATYA DEO is senior scientist at the National Academy of Sciences, India, and honorary professor at Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad, India. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Award by the Mathematical Association of India for outstanding contributions to the cause of teaching and research in 2006 and the Indian Science Congress Gold Medal by the Prime Minister of India, in 2010. He has guided 17 PhD students and published over 70 papers in reputed international journals and proceedings. His area of specialization includes algebraic and differential topology, topological and differentiable group actions, homology-cohomology theories, cohomological dimesion theory, burnside rings, hopfian and cohopfian rings, spline modules and topological combinatorics.