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Chee Yap is Professor of Computer Science at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University. He has published over 195 papers in computational geometry, computer algebra, robotics, visualization and complexity theory. His book "Fundamental Problems of Algorithmic Algebra" (Oxford Press 2000) is widely cited in algebraic computation. He was the Director of Studies Prize winner (1971) in Boys Wing , Royal Military College (Malaysia), and received a double BS degree in Computer Science and Mathematics from MIT (1972-75), a PhD in Computer Science from Yale (1975-80) under Richard Lipton. He has served on editorial boards of SIAM J. of Computing, J. of Symbolic Computation, Algorithmica, J. of Computer and System Sci., lnt'l J. of Computational Geometry and Applic., Computational Geometry: Theory and Applic., and Mathematics in Computer Sci. Recently, he served as conference chairs of ISSAC 2017 and ICMS 2014. He was a KIAS Scholar at Korea Institute of Advanced Study (2006-09), and member of Academia Europaea (2019).