Editorial from the New Editor-in-Chief

It is my honor to assume the role of editor-in-chief for Transactions on Computation Theory (ToCT). Thanks in large part to the passion and vision of the previous editor-in-chief, Venkat Guruswami, ToCT has grown significantly over the last several years, enhancing its role as a forum for cuttingedge research in computational complexity theory and related fields. On behalf of the community, I’d like to sincerely thank Venkat and the entire team of associate editors whose service to the journal has made this possible. At the same time, I’d also like to thank ACM’s journals manager Laura Lander and ToCT’s administrator Victoria White for their ongoing assistance with the journal and with the editor-in-chief transition. Chase Klingensmith has been added to the team in the role of information director, and I expect to invite a few new associate editors to the board in the near future. My main goals for ToCT in the coming years are threefold. First, I hope to raise its profile within the community, ensuring its status as leading destination for top research in complexity theory, broadly construed. A second goal is to maintain the quality of our reviews, while improving the response time to the authors, and decreasing the variance of time that papers remain in the system. Finally, I wish to continue to increase the number of high-quality results appearing in ToCT. To this end, the associate editors and I intend to play an active role in soliciting the most exciting new research in the field. For example, ToCT will bid to host the 2021 special issue for the Computational Complexity Conference, the flagship specialist conference in the area. Complexity theory is devoted to the foundational and mathematical underpinnings of computation, and as such it hosts some of the deepest results in theoretical computer science. Yet a continuing challenge in our field is the prevalence of research works whose final publication venue is conference proceedings. As a professional society journal, ToCT can play an invaluable archival role, and I hope to guide it in promoting the highest-quality scholarship in the years to come.