?Stephen Shing-Toung Yau (Life Fellow, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in mathematics from the State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY, USA, in 1976. He was a Member of the Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA, from 1976 to 1977 and 1981 to 1982. He was a Benjamin Pierce Assistant Professor with Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA, from 1977 to 1980. He then joined the Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science (MSCS), University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), Chicago, IL, USA, and served for more than 30 years. From 2005 to 2011, he was a Joint Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, MSCS, UIC. After his retirement in 2012, he joined Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, where he is currently a Full Time Professor with the Department of Mathematical Sciences. His research interests include nonlinear filtering, bioinformatics, complex algebraic geometry, Cauchy–Riemann geometry, and singularities theory.,Dr.Yau has been the Managing Editor and Fo