Thomas Hou

Thomas Y. Hou
Nationality China Chinese
United States American
Fields Applied mathematics
Institutions New York University
California Institute of Technology
Alma mater UCLA
Doctoral advisor Björn Engquist
Known for numerical analysis
mathematical analysis
Notable awards Fellow, AMS (2012)
Fellow, AAAS (2011)
Fellow, SIAM (2009)
James H. Wilkinson Prize (2001)
Sloan Fellowship (1990)

Thomas Yizhao Hou (born 1962) is the Charles Lee Powell Professor of Applied and Computational Mathematics in the Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences at the California Institute of Technology. He is known for his work in numerical analysis and mathematical analysis.

Academic biography

Hou studied at the South China University of Technology, where he received a B.S. in Mathematics in 1982.[1] He completed his Ph.D. in Mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1987 under the supervision of Björn Engquist. His dissertation was titled Convergence of Particle Methods for Euler and Boltzmann Equations with Oscillatory Solutions.[2] From 1989 to 1993, he taught at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University. He has been on the faculty of the California Institute of Technology since 1993. He became the Charles Lee Powell Professor of Applied and Computational Mathematics in 2004.[1]

Research

Hou is known for his research on multiscale analysis. He is an author of the monograph Multiscale finite element methods.[3] He has worked extensively on numerical analysis and applied analysis of the Navier-Stokes equations. His recent work focuses on adaptive data analysis.[1]

Hou was cofounder of SIAM Journal on Multiscale Modeling and Simulation, and he served as the editor-in-chief from 2002 to 2007. He was also cofounder of Advances in Adaptive Data Analysis, where he is currently editor-in-chief.

Awards and honors

Hou has won several major awards for mathematicians. He received an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in 1990.[4] He was awarded the Feng Kang Prize in Scientific Computing in 1997.[5] He received the James H. Wilkinson Prize in Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing from the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) in 2001.[6] He was an invited speaker at the 1998 International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin,[7] and he was a plenary speaker at the 2003 International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics in Sydney.[8]

Hou has also been inducted into several scholarly societies. He was elected Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in 2009.[9] He was elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) in 2011.[10] He was elected Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) in 2012.[11]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Thomas Y. Hou curriculum vitae Retrieved 11 August 2014
  2. ↑ Thomas Yizhao Hou at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ↑ Efendiev, Yalchin; Hou, Thomas (2009), Multiscale finite element methods, Springer
  4. ↑ Sloan Foundation, Past Fellows
  5. ↑ Feng Kang Prize, past winners
  6. ↑ James H. Wilkinson prize from the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
  7. ↑ ICM Plenary and Invited Speakers since 1897 at International Mathematical Union
  8. ↑ "Congress Update: ICIAM 2003", news item from at Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
  9. ↑ SIAM Fellows, Class of 2009
  10. ↑ American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Membership
  11. ↑ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
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