Oden Faculty George Biros named 2023 SIAM Fellow

The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) announced this year’s SIAM Fellows awards on March 30. George Biros, professor of mechanical engineering and computer science and a holder of a W. A. "Tex" Moncrief Chair in Simulation-Based Engineering Sciences at the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin is among the 26 members to be honored in the 2023 Class of SIAM Fellows. This award recognizes members of SIAM who have made outstanding contributions to fields served by their community.

Biros is being recognized for development of high-performance scientific computing (HPC) algorithms and their use in tackling challenging problems in science, engineering, and medicine. 

SIAM Fellows are a core group of individuals helping advance the fields of applied mathematics and computational science and are recognized by their peers as distinguished for their contributions to the discipline as well as their outstanding service to the community.

Biros’s research as head of the Parallel Algorithms for Data Analysis and Simulation Group at the Oden Institute focuses on identifying and leveraging synergies between mathematics, computer science, and applications. His group’s research touches on a variety of interdisciplinary computational applications in neurooncology, blood rheology, fluid dynamics and additive manufacturing. The underlying fundamental algorithms include data image analysis, inverse problems, integral equations, N-body algorithms, numerical linear algebra, uncertainty quantification,  machine  and deep learning. For many of these problems, Biros’s group has created open-source software that can scale on heterogeneous architectures. 

According to the SIAM website, the goal of the Fellows Program is to help make outstanding SIAM members more competitive for awards and honors when they are being compared with colleagues from other disciplines, and to support the advancement of members to leadership positions in their own institutions and across the broader society. 

SIAM is an international community of over 14,000 individual members. Almost 500 academic, manufacturing, research and development, service and consulting organizations, government, and military organizations worldwide are institutional members. SIAM was incorporated in 1952 as a nonprofit organization to convey useful mathematical knowledge to other professionals who could implement mathematical theory for practical, industrial, or scientific use.