He previously held positions at D. E. Shaw Research and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. His research is in developing and applying numerical methods and high-performance computing to solve large-scale scientific computing problems. Dr. Chow was awarded the 2009 ACM Gordon Bell prize and the 2002 U.S. Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). He serves or has served as Associate Editor for ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software and SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing.