Mohammad Ashraf is Professor & Chairperson at the Department of Mathematics and Dean, Faculty of Science, Aligarh Muslim University, India. He completed his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Aligarh Muslim University, India, in the year 1986 with the thesis entitled “A study of certain commutativity conditions for associative rings”. He also served as Associate Professor at the Department of Mathematics, King Abdulaziz University, KSA, from 1998 to 2004. His research interests include ring theory/commutativity and structure of rings and near-rings, derivations on rings, near-rings & Banach algebras, differential identities in rings and algebras, applied linear algebra, algebraic coding theory and cryptography. With a teaching experience of around 30 years, Prof. Ashraf has supervised the Ph.D. thesis of 11 students and is currently guiding 6 more. He has published around 230 research articles in journals and conference proceedings of repute with more than 3500 citations. He received the Young Scientist's Award from Indian Science Congress Association in the year 1988 and the I.M.S. Prize from Indian Mathematical Society for the year 1995.