Prof. Albert Chern is an assistant professor in Computer Science and Engineering at UCSD. He received his PhD in Applied and Computational Mathematics at Caltech in 2017. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher in Mathematics at TU Berlin from 2017 to 2020 and began his assistant professorship at UCSD in 2020. Prof. Chern's research interests lie in the interplay among differential geometry, numerical partial differential equations, and their applications in geometry processing and physics simulations in computer graphics. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award in 2023.