Dr. Mitchell Smooke is Chairman of the Mechanical Engineering Department at Yale University. He holds a joint appointment in the Department of Applied Physics. Dr. Smooke is also a member of Yale's Research Center for Scientific Computation. Dr. Smooke's primary research interests lie in the areas of computational combustion, chemical vapor deposition and the numerical solution of ordinary and partial differential equations. He has published numerous papers on the computational structure of flames and he has served on various technical boards including the ARO panel on nitramine propellants, the NSF Review Committee for Presidential Young Investigators and the SIAM Organizing Committee for the biannual meetings in Computational Combustion. He is currently co-Chair of the Laminar Flame Colloquium of the 26th Combustion Symposium, Program Chair of the Eastern States Section of the Combustion Institute and he is a member of the NASA Microgravity Combustion Discipline Working Group. Dr. Smooke has received numerous awards and honors for his research including the RPI Physics Marshall Award and a Sandia National Laboratories Technical Achievement Award. In 1994 Dr. Smooke received The Combustion Institute's Silver Medal. This award is given every two years to the outstanding research contribution in combustion science presented at the previous Symposium. Current projects include an investigation of the formation and destruction of NOx in hydrocarbon flames and the parallel implementation of detailed transport/multistep chemistry combustion models on shared memory and message passing architectures.