Algerian mathematician Youcef Saad was awarded the prestigious John-von-Neumann Prize for Mathematics of the Year 2023. This distinction earned him the congratulations of the President of the Republic, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, who expressed his pride for this victory.
In a tweet shared on his official account, the President of the Algerian Republic first congratulated him before encouraging him to continue to contribute to “ this exciting field and to take up new mathematical challenges”.
The John-von-Neumann Prize for Mathematics is one of the highest honors in mathematics, rewarding each year a researcher for his outstanding contributions in this field. It is named in honor of John von Neumann, a Hungarian mathematician who made major contributions to quantum physics, economics, computer science and mathematics.
This distinction therefore rewards the excellence and dedication of Youcef Saad in the field of mathematics. Saad’s work on algorithms has a significant impact on the fields of sparse linear systems, self-value problems, nonlinear equations, graph algorithms, and can be applied to a wide range of problems in science and computational engineering, including quantum chemistry, materials science and data science.
Professor Youcef Saad spoke about this response. According to SIAM he said: “My students, post-docs and collaborators have contributed enormously to my research and made this four-decade journey exciting. I am indebted to them and to many others whose support has made this work possible”.
Youcef Saad, who is the winner of the John-von-Neumann Prize?
Yousef Saad is a professor emeritus of computer science at the University of Minnesota.
Saad was born in Algeria in 1950 and obtained his degree in mathematics at the University of Algiers in 1970. He then joined the University of Grenoble for the doctoral program and obtained a junior doctorate, “PhD in 1974 and a higher doctorate, “State Doctorate” in 1983.
During his academic career, he held various positions, including scientific researcher in the computer science department of Yale University (1981-1983), associate professor at the University of Tizi-Ouzou in Algeria (1983-1984) , Research Scientist in the Department of Computer Science at Yale University (1984-1986), and Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1986-1988).
He also worked as a senior researcher at the Research Institute for Advanced Computing (RIACS) from 1980 to 1990.
Saad joined the University of Minnesota in 1990 as a professor in the computer science department. At Minnesota, he served as head of the Computer Science and Engineering Department from January 1997 to June 2000. Currently, he is a Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at the University of Minnesota.
Saad is the author of several influential books on linear algebra and matrix calculus. He is also listed as a highly cited researcher in mathematics by ISI, the most cited author in the journal Numerical Linear Algebra with Applications, and is a Fellow of SIAM (Class of 2010) and Fellow of AAAS (2011 ).
