Albert N. Shiryaev is a Chief Scientific Researcher at Steklov Mathematical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Head of the Probability Theory Department of the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics at Lomonosov Moscow State University. He is a Full Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the recipient of many honours and awards, including the Markov Prize in 1974, the Kolmogorov Prize in 1994, and the Chebyshev Medal of the Russian Academy of Science in 2017. His numerous other books include Probability [translated by Dmitry M. Chibisov], Limit Theorems for Stochastic Processes [with Jean Jacod], Optimal Stopping Rules [translated by A.B. Aries], Stochastic Disorder Problems [translated by Andrei Iacob], and Statistics of Random Processes [with Robert S. Liptser].
