Chen Greif is a professor and former department head of computer science at the University of British Columbia. In March 2022 he was elected a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics for "contributions to scientific computing, especially in numerical linear algebra and its applications."[1]

Chen Greif
Alma materTel Aviv University, University of British Columbia
Known forIterative solvers, preconditioning techniques, numerical linear algebra
AwardsFellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (2022)
Scientific career
FieldsScientific Computing, Numerical Linear Algebra
InstitutionsUniversity of British Columbia
Thesis (1998)

Education

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Greif attended Tel Aviv University, earning a bachelor's degree 1991 and a master's degree in 1994 in mathematics. He continued his education at the University of British Columbia, where he was awarded a PhD in Applied Mathematics in 1998. He was also a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University from 1998 to 2000.[2]

Research

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His research is primarily concerning scientific computing and more specifically:

  • Matrix theory and analysis
  • Iterative solvers and preconditioning techniques for sparse linear systems
  • Saddle-point linear systems
  • Numerical solution of elliptic partial differential equations
  • Linear algebra aspects of constrained optimization problems

Selected publication

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Books

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  • Ascher UM, Greif C, editors. A first course in numerical methods. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics; 2011 June 22. Cited 166 times in Google Scholar[3]

Articles

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  • Golub GH, Greif C. On solving block-structured indefinite linear systems. SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing. 2003;24(6):2076-92. Cited 181 times in Google Scholar[3]
  • Avron H, Sharf A, Greif C, Cohen-Or D. ℓ1-sparse reconstruction of sharp point set surfaces. ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG). 2010 Nov 5;29(5):1-2. Cited 145 times in Google Scholar[3]
  • Golub GH, Greif C. An Arnoldi-type algorithm for computing page rank. BIT Numerical Mathematics. 2006 Dec 1;46(4):759-71. Cited 121 times in Google Scholar[3]
  • Greif C, Schötzau D. Preconditioners for the discretized time-harmonic Maxwell equations in mixed form. Numerical Linear Algebra with Applications. 2007 May;14(4):281-97.Cited 114 times in Google Scholar[3]

References

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  1. ^ "SIAM Announces Class of 2022 Fellows" (Press release). Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. March 31, 2022.
  2. ^ "Chen Greif - Bio". University of British Columbia. Retrieved April 2, 2022.
  3. ^ a b c d e [1] Google Scholar author page Accessed April 9, 2012.
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