Chao Chen
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Assistant Professor Contact: chao_chen@ncsu.edu |
About me
Before joining NC State, Chao Chen was a postdoctoral researcher at the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin, working with George Biros and Per-Gunnar Martinsson. He received his PhD in 2018 Stanford University's Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering (ICME), advised by Eric Darve.
Chao has held research internships at NVIDIA Research (2018), Sandia National Laboratories’ Center for Computing Research (2015-2017), and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Computational Materials Science Group (2013).
Recent News
[May 2026] Co-organized a Minisymposium “Hierarchical Low-Rank Approximations: Algorithms and Applications” with Arvind Saibaba at 27th Conference of the International Linear Algebra Society (ILAS 2026).
[Apr 2026] Talk at Applied Math Seminar (online) at University of Arkansas (upcoming).
[Mar 2026] Co-organized a Minisymposium “Low-rank Approximation with Applications to Hierarchical Matrices and Tensors” with Yang Liu at SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing (PP26).
[Nov 2025] New work “Parametric Hierarchical Matrix Approximations to Kernel Matrices” is available arXiv.
[Sep 2025] New work “Parallel GPU-Accelerated Randomized Construction of Approximate Cholesky Preconditioners” is available arXiv.