Yousef Saad (born 1950) is an I.T. Distinguished Professor of Computer Science in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the

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He holds the William Norris Chair for Large-Scale Computing since January 2006. He is known for his contributions to the

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s, including the iterative methods for solving large sparse linear algebraic systems, eigenvalue problems, and

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. He is listed as an

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in mathematics, is the most cited author in the journal ''Numerical Linear Algebra with Applications'', and is the author of the highly cited book ''Iterative Methods for Sparse Linear Systems''. He is a SIAM fellow (class of 2010) and a fellow of the AAAS (2011).

Education and career

Saad received his B.S. degree in mathematics from the

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in 1970. He then joined

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for the doctoral program and obtained a junior doctorate, 'Doctorat de troisieme cycle' in 1974 and a

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, 'Doctorat d’Etat' in 1983. During the course of his academic career he has held various positions, including Research Scientist in the Computer Science Department at

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(1981–1983), Associate Professor in the University of Tizi-Ouzou in Algeria (1983–1984), Research Scientist in the Computer Science Department at Yale University (1984–1986), and Associate Professor in the Mathematics Department at

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(1986–1988). He also worked as a Senior Scientist in the Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science (RIACS) during 1980–1990. Saad joined

as a Professor in the Department of Computer Science in 1990. At Minnesota, he held the position of Head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering between January 1997 and June 2000. Currently, he is the I. T. Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at University of Minnesota.

Books

Saad is the author of a couple of influential books in

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which include *''Numerical Methods for Large Eigenvalue Problems'', Halstead Press, 1992. *''Iterative Methods for Sparse Linear Systems'', 2nd ed.,

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, Philadelphia, 2003. He has also co-edited the following article collections: *D. L. Boley, D. G. Truhlar, Y. Saad, R. E. Wyatt, and L. E. Collins, ''Practical Iterative Methods for Large Scale Computations''. North Holland, Amsterdam, 1989. *D. E. Keyes, Y. Saad, and D. G. Truhlar, ''Domain-Based Parallelism and Problem Decomposition Methods in Computational Science and Engineering''. SIAM, Philadelphia, 1995. *A. Ferreira, J. Rolim, Y. Saad, and T. Yang, ''Parallel Algorithms for Irregularly Structured Problems'', Proceedings of Third International Workshop, IRREGULAR’96 Santa Barbara, CA USA, 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, No 1117. Springer Verlag, 1996. *M. W. Berry, K. A. Gallivan, E. Gallopoulos, A. Grama, B. Philippe, Y. Saad, and F. Saied, ''High-Performance Scientific Computing: Algorithms and Applications''. Springer, 2012.

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