Scholar
Omar Ghattas
Google Scholar ID: A5vhsIYAAAAJ
Professor & Cockrell endowed chair, Mechanical Engineering & Oden Institute, Univ of Texas at Austin
Citations & Impact
Citations
7,591
H-index
48
i10-index
117
Publications
20
Co-authors
185
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- ACM Gordon Bell Prize recipient in 2003 (Special Achievement) and 2015 (Scalability)
- Finalist for the Gordon Bell Prize in 2008, 2010, and 2012
- 2019 SIAM Computational Science & Engineering Best Paper Prize
- 2019 SIAM Geosciences Career Prize
- 2025 SIAM Ivo and Renata Babŭska Prize
- Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
- Fellow of the U.S. Association for Computational Mechanics (USACM)
- Serves on the National Academies Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics
Background
- Cockrell Chair in Engineering and Professor of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin
- Principal Faculty at the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences
- Director of the Center for OPTimization, Inverse problems, Machine learning, and Uncertainty for complex Systems (OPTIMUS)
- Faculty member of the Computational Science, Engineering, and Mathematics (CSEM) interdisciplinary PhD program
- Holds courtesy appointments in Earth & Planetary Sciences, Computer Science, and Biomedical Engineering
- Research focuses on advanced mathematical, computational, and statistical theory and algorithms for large-scale inverse and optimal design/control problems
- Application domains include geophysics and earth systems (earthquakes, ice sheet dynamics, ice-ocean interaction, poroelasticity, seismology, subsurface flows, tsunamis), advanced materials and manufacturing (metamaterials, nanomaterials, additive manufacturing, nondestructive evaluation), and complex fluids
