Tomás Feder, son of Carlos, was born and grew up in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He obtained, with honors, his baccalaureate from the French School in the mentioned city. In 1983 he immigrated with his parents and sister to the United States, where he received his PHD in Computer Sciences from Stanford University. He was one of the outstanding students of his prestigious adviser Donald Knuth. Tomás worked for several years as a researcher at IBM. His curriculum includes over 100 publications, personal and with coauthors around the world.