SIAM Members Honored for Notable Achievements

By Lina Sorg

Over the last few months, several SIAM members were recognized in various capacities for their outstanding work in the fields of applied mathematics and computational science. We applaud their accomplishments and thank them for their continuous service to the profession. The subsequent members are those of which we are aware; we of course offer our congratulations to anyone we might have accidentally overlooked.

This spring, Andrew Stuart was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society for his exceptional contributions to scientific understanding, which embody the global nature of science. Stuart is the Bren Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences in the Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences at the California Institute of Technology.

Bonnie Berger was elected as a new member of the National Academy of Sciences for her distinguished and ongoing achievements in original research. Berger is the Simons Professor of Mathematics in the Department of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She also holds joint appointments in electrical engineering and computer science, serves as head of the Computation and Biology group in MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and is an associate member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard University.

Finally, Ioannis G. Kevrekidis, Tamara G. Kolda, and Jorge Nocedal were elected to the National Academy of Engineering. Kevrekidis is Bloomberg Distinguished Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, where he also holds appointments in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics and the Department of Urology. He was recognized for his “research on multiscale mathematical modeling and scientific computation for complex, nonlinear reaction, and transport processes.” Kolda is a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories and was honored for her “contributions to the design of scientific software, including tensor decompositions and multilinear algebra.” Nocedal is the Walter P. Murphy Professor of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences and (by courtesy) Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics at Northwestern University. He is also the director of Northwestern’s Center for Optimization and Statistical Learning. Nocedal was recognized for his “contributions to the theory, design, and implementation of optimization algorithms and machine learning software.”

Congratulations to these esteemed members of SIAM!

Lina Sorg is the managing editor of SIAM News.