Frances Y. Kuo is an applied mathematician known for her research on

low-discrepancy sequence In mathematics, a low-discrepancy sequence is a sequence with the property that for all values of ''N'', its subsequence ''x''1, ..., ''x'N'' has a low discrepancy. Roughly speaking, the discrepancy of a sequence is low if the proportion of poi ...

s and

quasi-Monte Carlo method In numerical analysis, the quasi-Monte Carlo method is a method for numerical integration and solving some other problems using low-discrepancy sequences (also called quasi-random sequences or sub-random sequences). This is in contrast to the regu ...

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numerical integration In analysis, numerical integration comprises a broad family of algorithms for calculating the numerical value of a definite integral, and by extension, the term is also sometimes used to describe the numerical solution of differential equations ...

and

finite element analysis The finite element method (FEM) is a popular method for numerically solving differential equations arising in engineering and mathematical modeling. Typical problem areas of interest include the traditional fields of structural analysis, heat t ...

. Originally from Taiwan, she was educated in New Zealand, and works in Australia as a professor in applied mathematics at the

University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales (UNSW), also known as UNSW Sydney, is a public research university based in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is one of the founding members of Group of Eight, a coalition of Australian research-intensiv ...

Education and career

Kuo is originally from

Taipei Taipei (), officially Taipei City, is the capital and a special municipality of the Republic of China (Taiwan). Located in Northern Taiwan, Taipei City is an enclave of the municipality of New Taipei City that sits about southwest of the ...

, and went to high school in Taiwan. She moved to New Zealand in 1994, and became a student at the

University of Waikato The University of Waikato ( mi, Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato), is a Public university, public research university in Hamilton, New Zealand, Hamilton, New Zealand established in 1964. An additional campus is located in Tauranga. The university perfo ...

, completing a bachelor of computing and mathematical sciences with honours in 1998, and a PhD in 2001. Her dissertation, ''Constructive approaches to quasi-Monte Carlo methods for multiple integration'', was supervised by Stephen Joe. After a year as an assistant lecturer at Waikato, Kuo moved to the

(UNSW) to do postdoctoral research with Ian Sloan. She remained as an ARC QEII Fellow and in 2012 became a senior lecturer at UNSW. She became an ARC Future Fellow in 2013 and a professor in 2019.

Recognition

In 2011, Kuo won the JH Michell Medal of

ANZIAM The Australian Mathematical Society (AustMS) was founded in 1956 and is the national society of the mathematics profession in Australia. One of the Society's listed purposes is to promote the cause of mathematics in the community by representing ...

, given annually to outstanding new researchers. The award cited her leadership in "theory and applications of high dimensional integration and approximation, Monte-Carlo methods and information-based complexity" and her interest in "applications in finance, statistics and porous media flow". She was the 2014 winner of the Joseph F. Traub Prize for Achievement in Information-Based Complexity.

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