Edward Ng

Edward W. Ng (Chinese伍煒國) received his PhD degree in astronomy/applied mathematics from Columbia University. He has been employed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory(JPL) of the California Institute of Technology, under contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). He retired in March of 2006. E. Ng was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and is cited in the American Men and Women of Science. He was the editor of "Symbolic and Algebraic Computation", a Monograph published by Springer Verlag. He has published a number of journal and conference articles in various mathematical applications of space sciences and engineering (selected list in 'external link' below). His papers have appeared in Astrophysical Journal, Mathematics of Computation, Journal of Mathematics & Physics, Journal of Computational Physics, ACM Transactions on Mathematical Softwareand Computers and Mathematics with Applications. Ng was born and grew up in Hong Kong and came to the US for college and post-graduate education. He is married to Grace, and has 3 sons: Elliott (married to Karen), Stanley (married to Tammy) & Chester.

[edit] Awards and honours

NASA Group Achievement Award -- Software Resource Center (1990);
NASA Group Achievement Award -- Flight Projects -- Information Systems Test-bed Team (1992);
NASA Group Achievement Award – Deep Space Station-13 Monitor & Control Advanced Development (1993) ;
AAS Team Award -- Deep Space Network (1994);
NASA Certificate of Apollo-Columbia Commemoration of the Space Transportation System – 65 Flight (1994)
NASA Group Achievement Award – Selective Monitoring Development Team (1995)