Marc Teboulle is the Eric and Sheila Samson Chair of Optimization at the School of Mathematical Sciences of Tel Aviv University. He received his D.Sc. from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology in 1985. He has held a position of applied mathematician at the Israel Aircraft Industries, and academic appointements at Dalhousie University and the University of Maryland. He has also held visiting appointments at several institutions, including IMPA (Rio de Janeiro), University of Montpellier, University of Paris, University of Lyon, University of Michigan, University of Texas at Austin, The National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Republic of China, University of California, Los Angeles, and TSE Toulouse School of Economics, University of Toulouse.

Teboulle research interests are in the area of continuous optimization, including theory, algorithmic analysis and its applications. He has published numerous papers and two books, and has given invited lectures at many international conferences. His research has been supported by leading funding agencies including, the National Science Foundation, the French-Israeli Ministry of Sciences, the Bi-National Israel-United States Science Foundation, the Israel Science Foundation, and the German Israel Foundation. He currently serves as the Corresponding Editor of the European Series in Applied and Industrial Mathematics, Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations. He is on the editorial boards of SIAM J. Optimization; Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, SIAM J. on Mathematics of Data Science, and the SMAI J. of Computational Mathematics. From 2013 to 2018, he was the Area Editor for Continuous Optimization of Mathematics of Operations Research. During 1999-2002, he served as chairman of the Department of Statistics and Operations Research at the School of Mathematical Sciences of Tel-Aviv University. He is a SIAM Fellow.