Xianfeng Gu received a B.S. degree from Tsinghua University and a Ph.D. degree from Harvard University. He is now a tenured professor in the Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He has won several awards, such as the NSF CAREER Award of the USA, the Chinese Overseas Outstanding Youth Award, the Chinese Fields Medal, and the Chenxing Golden Prize in Applied Mathematics. Professor Gu’s team create a cross-disciplinary ”computational conformal geometry”, which is widely utilized in computer graphics, computer vision, 3D geometric modeling and visualization, and other fields.