T. E. Govindan earned a Master’s degree in Statistics from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, followed by a Ph.D. in Mathematics in 1991 from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India. After serving the University of Bombay, India for over eight years, he moved to Mexico in 1999. Currently, he is a Professor of Mathematics at the National Polytechnic Institute in Mexico. He specializes in stochastic analysis, particularly on stochastic differential equations.