Omar Ghattas

Omar Ghattas
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Duke University
Known for	PDE-constrained optimization
Awards	Gordon Bell Prize (2003, 2015)
Scientific career
Fields	Computational mechanics Inverse problems Uncertainty quantification
Institutions	Carnegie Mellon University University of Texas at Austin Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences
Doctoral students	George Biros

Omar Ghattas is the John A. and Katherine G. Jackson Chair in Computational Geosciences and Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Geological Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin.

Early life and career

Ghattas obtained a Ph.D. in computational mechanics from Duke University. He is the director of the Center for Computational Geosciences and Optimization at the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Ghattas was twice awarded a Gordon Bell Prize that "recognizes outstanding achievement in high-performance computing applications". ^[4] In 2019, Ghattas was awarded the SIAM Geosciences Career Prize for “groundbreaking contributions in analysis, methods, algorithms, and software for grand challenge computational problems in geosciences, and for exceptional influence as mentor, educator, and collaborator.” ^[5]

Awards

• Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (2014) ^[6]

References

1. "ICES, Faculty listing" . Retrieved April 21, 2019.
2. "Faculty, Mechanical Engineering, UT Austin" . Retrieved April 21, 2019.
3. "Institute for Geoscience, faculty listing". Archived from the original on April 22, 2019. Retrieved April 21, 2019.
4. "ACM Gordon Bell Prize" . Retrieved April 21, 2019.
5. "Dr. Omar Ghattas Receives 2019 SIAM Geosciences Career Prize". February 11, 2019. Retrieved April 21, 2019.
6. "Fellows". SIAM. Retrieved April 21, 2019.

External links

• Website at UT Austin
• Omar Ghattas publications indexed by Google Scholar