Yuan Chen is a Senior Researcher in Systems Research Lab at HP Labs. Yuan's research is in the area of management of distributed systems, data center and Cloud with a focus on developing energy-efficient technology to reduce power consumption and carbon footprint of data centers. He is particularly interested in models, energy-efficient algorithms and software for control and optimization of data center workload and resource management. Yuan has published over 40 technical papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences proceedings, including the Best Paper Award of International Green Computing Conference (IGCC 2011) and the Best Paper Award of IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2008). He has one patent granted and over 20 patent applications pending. He was the organizer and co-chair of the 2008 Sustainability Innovation Workshop. Yuan received a B.S. from University of Science and Technology of China, a M.S. from Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a Ph.D. from Georgia Institute of Technology, all in Computer Science.