Mark D. Fairchild is the Xerox Professor of Color Science and director of the Munsell Color Science Laboratory@the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT).  He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in imaging science from RIT and his Ph.D. in vision science from the University of Rochester. He was chair of the Commission Internationale de L'Éclairage (CIE) Technical Committee 1-34 on color appearance models. He is author of Color Appearance Models, 2nd Ed., which serves as a reference to the fundamentals of color appearance and the formulation of specific models.