Hongyuan Zha received his B.S. degree in mathematics from Fudan University in Shanghai in 1984, and his Ph.D. in scientific computing from Stanford University in 1993. Zha was a faculty member of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Pennsylvania State University from 1992 to 2006, and he worked from 1999 to 2001 at Inktomi Corporation. Zha’s current research interests include computational mathematics and machine learning applications.