Prof. Eric received his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics at the Jacques-Louis Lions Laboratory, in the Pierre et Marie Curie University, Paris, France. His advisor was Prof. Olivier Pironneau, and his Ph.D. thesis was entitled “Fast Multipole Methods for Integral Equations in Acoustics and Electromagnetics.” He was previously a student at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, rue d'Ulm, Paris, in Mathematics and Computer Science. Prof. Eric became a postdoctoral scholar with Profs. Moin and Pohorille at Stanford and NASA Ames in 1999 and joined the faculty at Stanford University in 2001. He is a member of the Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering. His research interests include numerical linear algebra, machine learning for engineering, high-performance and GPU computing.