Prof. Weinan E

Prof. Weinan E moved to Princeton University in 1999 where he holds a professorship in the Department of Mathematics and in the Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics. He received his PhD from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1989 (under Björn Engquist). Prof. E was a long-term member of the Institute of Advanced Studies in Princeton from 1992 to 1994 and became a professor at the Courant Institute at New York University in 1994. In 1999, he received the US Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, in 1999 he was awarded the Feng Kang Prize for Scientific Computing, and in 2003 he received the ICIAM (International Congress of Industrial and Applied Mathematics) Collatz Prize. Prof. E's work is a sophisticated combination of modeling, mathematical analysis, and numerics, and it is always devoted to providing new insights into real-world processes.