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 The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas. It was founded in 1883 and is the oldest institution in the University of Texas System. With 40,916 undergraduate students, 11,07 ...

Early life and career

Ghattas obtained a Ph.D. in

computational mechanics Computational mechanics is the discipline concerned with the use of computational methods to study phenomena governed by the principles of mechanics. Before the emergence of computational science (also called scientific computing) as a "third w ...

from Duke University. He is the director of the Center for Computational Geosciences and Optimization at the

Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences The Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences is an interdisciplinary research unit and graduate program at The University of Texas at Austin dedicated to advancing computational science and engineering through a variety of progra ...

. Ghattas was twice awarded a

Gordon Bell Prize The Gordon Bell Prize, commonly referred to as the Nobel Prize of Supercomputing, is an award presented by the Association for Computing Machinery each year in conjunction with the SC Conference series (formerly known as the Supercomputing Confere ...

that "recognizes outstanding achievement in high-performance computing applications". In 2019, Ghattas was awarded the

SIAM Thailand ( ), historically known as Siam () and officially the Kingdom of Thailand, is a country in Southeast Asia, located at the centre of the Indochinese Peninsula, spanning , with a population of almost 70 million. The country is bo ...

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.”

Awards

*Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (2014)

References

External links

Website at UT Austin
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ghattas, Omar 1962 births Living people Duke University alumni Carnegie Mellon University faculty University of Texas at Austin faculty Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics