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Professor John Gilbert has been named a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). He was honored by SIAM “for contributions to the development and analysis of algorithms for sparse matrix problems.“ Prof. Gilbert’s research is in combinatorial and numerical algorithms, high-performance computing, mathematical software, numerical linear algebra, and scientific computation. He directs the Combinatorial Scientific Computing Lab at UCSB, and is a Professor of Computer Science and a member of the interdepartmental Program in Computational Science and Engineering.

Prof. Gilbert holds a Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University. He joined the UCSB faculty in 2002, after fourteen years on the research staff at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center and seven years on the faculty of Cornell University.

Founded in 1952, SIAM is an international community of over 13,000 individual members, including applied and computational mathematicians, computer scientists, and other scientists and engineers. The 2010 class of Fellows is the first nominated by the SIAM community. This distinction acknowledges selected members of SIAM as leading thinkers and ambassadors of applied mathematics and computational science. CS Professor Linda Petzold is also a SIAM Fellow.

Link: SIAM 2010 Fellow