Yaoqing Gao is a Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM Canada Lab. His major interests are compilation technology, optimization and performance tuning tools, parallel programming models and languages, and computer architecture. He has been doing research and development for IBM XL C/C++ and Fortran compiler products on IBM POWER, z/Architecture, CELL processors and Blue Gene. He authored over 30 papers in journals and conferences. He has been an IBM Master inventor since 2006 and authored 30 issued and pending patents. Before joining IBM, Dr. Gao conducted research on parallel and distributed processing and programming languages at Tsinghua University, the National University of Singapore, the University of Tokyo, and the University of Alberta.