Chao Yang received his Ph.D. in computational mathematics from Rice University in 1998. He worked at NEC Systems Lab, Inc, a subsidiary of NEC from 1998 to 1999. He was awarded the 1999 Householder fellow in scientific computing by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He joined Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in 2000 and is currently a senior scientist. His research interests include:

• developing numerical algorithms and fast implementations to accelerate scientific simulations
• developing efficient and robust algorithms and implementations for solving inverse problems