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 The California Institute of Technology (branded as Caltech or CIT)The university itself only spells its short form as "Caltech"; the institution considers other spellings such a"Cal Tech" and "CalTech" incorrect. The institute is also occasional ...

. He is known for his work in

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and

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Academic biography

Hou studied at the

South China University of Technology The South China University of Technology (SCUT; ) is a public university in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China. The university is co-sponsored by the China Ministry of Education and the Guangdong Provincial People's Government. The university is a mul ...

, where he received a B.S. in Mathematics in 1982.Thomas Y. Hou ''curriculum vitae''
Retrieved 11 August 2014 He completed his Ph.D. in Mathematics at the

University of California, Los Angeles The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California S ...

in 1987 under the supervision of

Björn Engquist Björn Engquist (also ''Bjorn Engquist''; born 2 June 1945 in Stockholm) has been a leading contributor in the areas of multiscale modeling and scientific computing, and a productive educator of applied mathematicians. Life He received his PhD ...

. His dissertation was titled ''Convergence of Particle Methods for Euler and Boltzmann Equations with Oscillatory Solutions.'' From 1989 to 1993, he taught at the

Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences The Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences (commonly known as Courant or CIMS) is the mathematics research school of New York University (NYU), and is among the most prestigious mathematics schools and mathematical sciences research cente ...

New York University New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded by a group of New Yorkers led by then- Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin. In 1832, th ...

. He has been on the faculty of the

since 1993. He became the Charles Lee Powell Professor of Applied and Computational Mathematics in 2004.

Research

Hou is known for his research on multiscale analysis. He is an author of the monograph ''Multiscale finite element methods''. He has worked extensively on numerical analysis and applied analysis of the Navier-Stokes equations. His recent work focuses on adaptive data analysis. 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 The Sloan Research Fellowships are awarded annually by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation since 1955 to "provide support and recognition to early-career scientists and scholars". This program is one of the oldest of its kind in the United States. ...

in 1990. He was awarded the Feng Kang Prize in Scientific Computing in 1997. He received the James H. Wilkinson Prize in Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing from the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) in 2001.

Ruth J. Williams Ruth Jeannette Williams is an Australian-born American mathematician at the University of California, San Diego where she holds the Charles Lee Powell Chair as a Distinguished Professor of Mathematics. Her research concerns probability theory and ...

He was an invited speaker at the 1998 International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin, and he was a plenary speaker at the 2003 International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics in Sydney. Hou has also been inducted into several scholarly societies. He was elected Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in 2009. He was elected Fellow of the

American Academy of Arts and Sciences The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (abbreviation: AAA&S) is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States. It was founded in 1780 during the American Revolution by John Adams, John Hancock, James Bowdoin, Andrew Oliver, a ...

(AAAS) in 2011. He was elected Fellow of the

American Mathematical Society The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and scholarship, and serves the national and international community through its publications, meetings, ...

(AMS) in 2012.List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
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References

External links

Thomas Y. Hou professional home page
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