| Chi-Wang Shu | |
|---|---|
| Born | January 1, 1957 |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Applied Mathematics |
| Institutions | Brown University |
| Alma mater | University of Science and Technology of China (B.S., 1982) University of California at Los Angeles (Ph.D., 1986) |
| Doctoral advisor | Stanley Osher |
| Known for | TVD temporal discretization ENO and WENO schemes Discontinuous Galerkin method |
| Notable awards | Feng Kang Prize of Scientific Computing (1995) |
Chi-Wang Shu (Chinese: 舒其望, born 1 January 1957) is the Theodore B. Stowell University Professor of Applied Mathematics at the Brown University.[1] He is known for his research work in the fields of computational fluid dynamics, Numerical solutions of conservation laws and Hamilton–Jacobi type equations. Shu has been listed as an ISI Highly Cited Author in Mathematics by the ISI Web of Knowledge, Thomson Scientific Company.[2]
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Shu received B.S. degree in Mathematics from the University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, in 1982 and Ph.D. degree in Mathematics from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1986. His Ph.D. thesis advisor was Stanley Osher.
Shu started his academic career in 1987 as an Assistant Professor in the Division of Applied Mathematics at Brown University. He has been an Associate Professor during 1992-96 and became Full Professor in 1996. He is currently the Theodore B. Stowell University Professor. In 2009 he was selected as one of the first 183 Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).