Robert M. Corless is Emeritus Distinguished University Professor at Western University, an adjunct professor at the Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo, a member of the Rotman Institute of Philosophy, and former scientific director of The Ontario Research Center for Computer Algebra. He is the editor-in-chief of Maple Transactions. In 2019 he was awarded the Ford-Halmos Prize, along with the late Jonathan Borwein, for expository excellence for the paper Gamma and Factorial in the Monthly.