Matthias Heinkenschloss, Noah Harding Chair and professor of Computational Applied Mathematics and Operations Research at the George R. Brown School of Engineering and Computing at Rice University, was announced as a 2025 SIAM Fellow by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), an international community with 14,000 individual members and almost 500 academic, manufacturing, research and development, service and consulting organizations, government, and military organizations worldwide institutional members.
Incorporated in 1952 as a nonprofit organization, SIAM’s mission is to build cooperation between mathematics and the worlds of science and technology through publications, research, and community. The organization aims to convey useful mathematical knowledge to other professionals who could implement mathematical theory for practical, industrial, or scientific use.
SIAM Fellows are distinguished members nominated in recognition of their outstanding research and service to the community. Through their various contributions, SIAM Fellows form a crucial group of individuals helping to advance the fields of applied mathematics, computational science, and data science.
Heinkenschloss is one of 25 members being recognized as a SIAM Fellow this year. He was selected for his scholarly work in advancing the integrated development of cutting-edge numerical optimization methods in conjunction with partial differential equation (PDE) discretization, reduced order models, and efficient numerical linear algebra. This integrated approach enables solutions for complex problems in engineering and the sciences and has been successfully applied to areas such as reservoir management, trajectory optimization, and parameter estimation in intricate neuron models.
“I am honored to be part of the distinguished group of SIAM Fellows, which includes several current and former faculty members from my department.”
The 2025 SIAM Fellows will be recognized during a reception at the SIAM/CAIMS Annual Meetings that will be held in Montréal, Québec, Canada in July this year.