King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) announces Professor David E. Keyes and Professor Brian Moran as the countdown analysis chairs of Mathematical and Computer Sciences and Engineering, and of Earth and Environmental Sciences, respectively. KAUST is accepting complete in Saudi Arabia as an international, graduate-level analysis university committed to alarming a new age of accurate accomplishment in the Kingdom, above the arena and about the globe. Both Professors Keyes and Moran accept award-winning histories as researchers, scientists, and appear authors. Their plan as antecedents of abounding notable projects accompanying with their adventures as apprentice admiral and advisers makes both of them a absolute fit for their corresponding positions
Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia -- King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) today appear Professor David E. Keyes as analysis armchair of Mathematical and Computer Sciences and Engineering and Professor Brian Moran as analysis armchair of Earth and Environmental Sciences and Engineering. Professor Keyes assumes official duties in May 2009 and Professor Moran will activate September 1, 2008.
Professor Keyes and Professor Moran will be amenable for arch efforts to accommodate opportunities and accessories for researchers to abode important accurate issues pertaining to anniversary division. Both positions will address to KAUST's Provost Fawwaz T. Ulaby.
Commenting today, President-designate Shih said, "Each Division of KAUST will accept its own different opportunities and challenges. As such, anniversary armchair have to acquire the administration qualities that will drive success and action our acceptance the actual best analysis acquaintance they can accept absorbed in anniversary accurate across of focus. We are captivated that Professors Keyes and Moran will accompany KAUST and footfall into their roles to actualize apple chic departments that will allure the best and brightest acceptance and adroitness from above the globe."
"Both Professors Keyes and Moran accept award-winning histories as researchers, scientists, and appear authors. Their plan as antecedents of abounding notable projects accompanying with their adventures as apprentice admiral and advisers makes both of them a absolute fit for their corresponding positions," said Professor Ulaby.
With an all-encompassing accomplishments in engineering, activated mathematics, and computer science, Professor Keyes, 51, is currently the Fu Foundation Professor of Applied Mathematics at Columbia University, an accessory of several laboratories of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), and the carnality admiral of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). Professor Keyes works at the algebraic interface amid alongside accretion and the after appraisal of fractional cogwheel equations, above a spectrum of aerodynamic, geophysical, and chemically reacting flows.
Professor Keyes began his career at Yale University, area he accomplished for eight years, above-mentioned to abutting Old Dominion University and the Institute for Computer Applications in Science & Engineering at the NASA Langley Research Center in 1993. Between 1999 and 2008, he served part-time as the administrator of the Institute for Scientific Computing Research at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
A avant-garde in the development of all-embracing simulation, he currently leads a algebraic cyberinfrastructure centermost for the U.S. DOE beneath the Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing initiative, and has ahead led the Grand, National, and Multidisciplinary Challenges centermost of the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), as able-bodied as one of DOE's Accelerated Strategic Computing centers. Professor Keyes was accustomed with the Sidney Fernbach Award of the IEEE Computer Society in 2007 and an ACM Gordon Bell Prize in 1999, accustomed an NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1989, and has won teaching prizes from Columbia, Harvard, and Yale Universities. Professor Keyes accelerating summa cum laude with a bachelors of science in engineering in Aerospace and Mechanical Sciences from Princeton, and becoming a doctorate in Applied Mathematics from Harvard. He completed his post-doctoral studies in the Computer Science Department of Yale University.
A built-in of Limerick Ireland, Professor Moran, 49, joins KAUST afterward a acclaimed 20-year career at Northwestern University, area he served a lot of afresh as assistant and armchair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science. Prior to his accepted position, he served as armchair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Northwestern. In the across of Mechanical Engineering he accustomed a analysis assurance in neural engineering in affiliation with Biomedical Engineering and the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago area he led the administration through affairs analysis and accreditation. In Civil and Environmental Engineering, he chaired an Advisory Board in developing a affairs in Architectural Engineering and Design.
Professor Moran is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and was adopted a affiliate of the axle of admiral of the Society of Engineering Science area he anon serves as secretary of the society. In addition, he co-chaired the Seventh World Congress on Computational Mechanics in Los Angeles in 2006. He was alert adopted by acceptance to the Northwestern Faculty Honor Roll for Teaching and he accustomed the W.M. Keck Foundation Award for Engineering Teaching Excellence. He has appear added than 100 abstruse articles.
Professor Moran becoming his bachelors of engineering in Civil Engineering and after his masters of engineering in Mechanical Engineering from the National University of Ireland, Galway. He becoming a masters of science in Applied Mathematics and doctorate in Solid Mechanics from Brown University. He accustomed the National University of Ireland Bursary in Civil Engineering for abstraction abroad. Professor Moran spent a year as an IBM Research Fellow at Caltech afore abutting Northwestern in 1988.
About KAUST:
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) is accepting complete in Saudi Arabia as an international, graduate-level analysis university committed to alarming a new age of accurate accomplishment in the Kingdom, above the arena and about the globe. As an independent, merit-based institution, KAUST will accredit top advisers from about the apple and above all cultures to plan calm to break arduous accurate and abstruse problems. The KAUST all-around analysis and apprenticeship arrangement will abutment assorted talents both on its campus and at added arch universities and analysis institutions through collaborative analysis agreements, grants, and apprentice scholarship programs. The amount campus, amid on added than 36 actor aboveboard meters on the Red Sea at Thuwal, is set to accessible in September 2009. For added advice about KAUST, appointment http://www.kaust.edu.sa.
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