Falai Chen is currently a professor in the School of Mathematics, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). He got his B.S. and Ph.D degrees in 1987 and 1994 respectively, both from USTC. His research interest includes algebraic methods in Geometric Modeling, iso-geometric analysis, splines over T-meshes, and applications of
sparse analysis in Geometric Modelling and Computer Graphics. He has published over one hundred scientific papers in referred journals and international conferences. He serves on the editorial boards of several international journals such as Computer Aided Geometric Design, Visual Computer, and Journal of Computational Mathematics. He won Distinguished Young Investigation Award of NSF of China in 2002 and Feng Kang Scientific Computing Award in 2009.