Yifan Hu earned his MSc from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, and his PhD from Loughborough University, UK. He worked as a senior scientific officer in the UK's national Daresbury Laboratory from 1992 to 2001, doing research on parallel computing and optimization, with applications to computational fluid dynamics, computational combustion and other grand challenge problems. From 2001 to 2007, he worked for Wolfram Research Inc. researching and developing algorithms for Mathematica in the area of optimization, graph drawing and network analysis, sparse linear algebra and parallel computing. He was an adjunct professor at Indiana University, South Bend, from 2006-2007. Dr Hu is the author of over 30 papers and book chapters, and a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (FIMA), UK. He joined AT&T Labs a Principal Technical Staff Member in Research in 2007 and has contributed novel methods for large network visualization and data analysis for recommender systems based on collaborative filtering.

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