Tony Kearsley was raised in Mount Pleasant, Washinton D.C. and later in suburban Maryland. He graduated from High school in 1984. After two years of traveling around europe, he enrolled in the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). Four years later, in 1990 he graduated with a degree in mathematics (with a physics minor). In his junior and senior years, Tony worked at the National Bureau of Standards (NBS) what is now the National Institutes of Standards and Technology (NIST). Also in 1990 he began graduate work at Rice University in Houston, Texas. During that time he two spent summers visiting NIST and he spent 8 months in 1994 visiting CERFACS. In June of 1995, Tony sucessfully defended his thesis under the advisement of Roland Glowinski and Richard Tapia, and accepted an assistant professor position at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth. One year later, he took a leave of absense and accepted a position at NIST where he is presently employed.