Yuh-Dauh Lyuu (呂育道) was born in Taipei, Taiwan, in 1962. He obtained the Bachelor's degree in Information Engineering from National Taiwan University in 1984 and the Master's and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Harvard University in 1989 and 1990, respectively. He is currently a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering and the Department of Finance, both at National Taiwan University. His past work experiences include Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, New Jersey, in the summer of 1987 as Member of Technical Staff, NEC Research Institute, Princeton, New Jersey, between 1990 and 1994 as Research Scientist, and Citicorp Securities, New York between 1994 and 1995 as Assistant Vice President. Prof. Lyuu has worked on parallel algorithms and architectures, fault tolerance, interconnection networks, neural networks, cryptography, and computational finance.

Besides journal and conference papers, Prof. Lyuu published a book with the Cambridge University Press in 1992 on parallel computation and fault tolerance(the paperback version appeared in 2005). His latest book, Financial Engineering & Computation, was published in 2002, also by the Cambridge University Press. Prof. Lyuu also holds a U.S. patent related to optical interconnection networks.