James G. Nagy is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor and Chair of the Department of Mathematics at Emory University, a Fellow of the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), and currently SIAM's Vice President for Programs. Dr. Nagy received a PhD in Applied Mathematics in 1991 from North Carolina State University. Before joining Emory University in 1999 he had postdoctoral research fellowships at the IMA at the University of Minnesota, with the NSF at the University of Maryland, and he was on the faculty at Southern Methodist University. Dr. Nagy's research interests include numerical linear algebra, structured matrix computations, numerical solution of inverse problems, and image processing.