Yousef Saad (born 1950) in

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from

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is an I.T. Distinguished Professor of Computer Science in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the

University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota Twin Cities (historically known as University of Minnesota) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint ...

.Yousef Saad
at the

He holds the William Norris Chair for Large-Scale Computing since January 2006. He is known for his contributions to the

matrix computation Numerical linear algebra, sometimes called applied linear algebra, is the study of how matrix operations can be used to create computer algorithms which efficiently and accurately provide approximate answers to questions in continuous mathematics. ...

s, including the iterative methods for solving large sparse linear algebraic systems, eigenvalue problems, and

parallel computing Parallel computing is a type of computing, computation in which many calculations or Process (computing), processes are carried out simultaneously. Large problems can often be divided into smaller ones, which can then be solved at the same time. ...

. He is listed as an

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in mathematics, is the most cited author in the journal ''Numerical Linear Algebra with Applications'', and is the author of the highly cited book ''Iterative Methods for Sparse Linear Systems''. He is a SIAM fellow (class of 2010) and a fellow of the AAAS (2011). In 2023, he won the

John von Neumann Prize The John von Neumann Prize (until 2019 named John von Neumann Lecture Prize) was funded in 1959 with support from IBM and other industry corporations, and began being awarded in 1960 for "outstanding and distinguished contributions to the field ...

Education and career

Saad received his B.S. degree in mathematics from the

University of Algiers The University of Algiers 1 (), commonly called Benyoucef Benkhedda, is a public research university based in Algiers, Algeria. Founded in 1909 from the amalgamation of different French colonial educational institutions, it has become the oldes ...

in 1970. He then joined

University of Grenoble The (, ''Grenoble Alps University'', abbr. UGA) is a Grands établissements, ''grand établissement'' in Grenoble, France. Founded in 1339, it is the third largest university in France with about 60,000 students and over 3,000 researchers. Es ...

for the doctoral program and obtained a junior doctorate, 'Doctorat de troisieme cycle' in 1974 and a

higher doctorate A doctorate (from Latin ''doctor'', meaning "teacher") or doctoral degree is a postgraduate academic degree awarded by universities and some other educational institutions, derived from the ancient formalism '' licentia docendi'' ("licence to teach ...

, 'Doctorat d’Etat' in 1983. During the course of his academic career, he has held various positions, including Research Scientist in the Computer Science Department at

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Stat ...

(1981–1983), Associate Professor in the University of Tizi-Ouzou in Algeria (1983–1984), Research Scientist at the Computer Science Department at

(1984–1986), and Associate Professor in the Mathematics Department at

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(1986–1988). He also worked as a Senior Scientist in the

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(RIACS) during 1980–1990. Saad joined

as a Professor in the Department of Computer Science in 1990. At Minnesota, he held the position of Head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering between January 1997 and June 2000. Currently, he is the I. T. Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at University of Minnesota.

Books

Saad is the author of a couple of influential books in

linear algebra Linear algebra is the branch of mathematics concerning linear equations such as :a_1x_1+\cdots +a_nx_n=b, linear maps such as :(x_1, \ldots, x_n) \mapsto a_1x_1+\cdots +a_nx_n, and their representations in vector spaces and through matrix (mathemat ...

and

which include *''Numerical Methods for Large Eigenvalue Problems'', Halstead Press, 1992. *''Iterative Methods for Sparse Linear Systems'', 2nd ed.,

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, Philadelphia, 2003. He has also co-edited the following article collections: *D. L. Boley, D. G. Truhlar, Y. Saad, R. E. Wyatt, and L. E. Collins, ''Practical Iterative Methods for Large Scale Computations''. North Holland, Amsterdam, 1989. *D. E. Keyes, Y. Saad, and D. G. Truhlar, ''Domain-Based Parallelism and Problem Decomposition Methods in Computational Science and Engineering''. SIAM, Philadelphia, 1995. *A. Ferreira, J. Rolim, Y. Saad, and T. Yang, ''Parallel Algorithms for Irregularly Structured Problems'', Proceedings of Third International Workshop, IRREGULAR’96 Santa Barbara, CA USA, 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, No 1117. Springer Verlag, 1996. *M. W. Berry, K. A. Gallivan, E. Gallopoulos, A. Grama, B. Philippe, Y. Saad, and F. Saied, ''High-Performance Scientific Computing: Algorithms and Applications''. Springer, 2012.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Saad, Yousef University of Minnesota faculty Numerical analysts Algerian mathematicians Algerian computer scientists 20th-century American mathematicians 21st-century American mathematicians University of Algiers alumni Grenoble Alpes University alumni Living people Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics American computational chemists 1950 births 21st-century Algerian people