P. R. Kumar is a University Distinguished Professor and holds the College of Engineering Chair in Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University. His current research focuses on renewable energy systems, wireless networks, secure systems, automated transportation, and cyberphysical systems. He is a Fellow of the World Academy of Sciences, ACM, and IEEE, and a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering. He serves as an editor-at-large of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, and has co-authored three other books, most recently, A Clean Slate Approach to Secure Wireless Networking, NOW (2015).

Pravin Varaiya is a Professor of the Graduate School in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at University of California, Berkeley. His current research focuses on transportation networks and electric power systems. He is a Fellow of IEEE and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the US National Academy of Engineering. He is on the editorial board of Transportation Letters and has co-authored four books, most recently, Dynamics and Control of Trajectory Tubes, Birkhäuser (2014). --This text refers to the Paperback edition.