Omar Ghattas

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.

Omar Ghattas
NationalityAmerican
Alma materDuke University
Known forPDE-constrained optimization
AwardsGordon Bell Prize (2003, 2015)
Scientific career
FieldsComputational mechanics
Inverse problems
Uncertainty quantification
InstitutionsCarnegie Mellon University
University of Texas at Austin
Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences
Doctoral studentsGeorge Biros

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 awarded a Gordon Bell Prize twice 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
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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". 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.
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