Honours and distinctions

Awards, fellowships, academic chairs, selected international academic appointments, plenary and keynote lectures, and editorial appointments in applied mathematics, scientific computing and scientific machine learning.

Awards and fellowships

  • 2018: IBM Champion.
  • 2015: Fellow of the British Computer Society (BCS), United Kingdom.
  • 2014: Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA), United Kingdom.
  • 2014: NVIDIA CUDA Teaching Center Award.
  • 2014: Microsoft Research Academic Award.
  • 2013, 2014: NVIDIA CUDA Research Center Award.
  • 2012: IBM Faculty Award.

Academic chairs

Transvalor S.A. Academic Chair

Co-Inaugural Holder, 2022–2026 · CentraleSupélec.

Artificial Intelligence Applied to the Numerical Simulation of Material Forming Processes.

The Transvalor Chair connected numerical simulation with machine learning and scientific computing, with applications to material forming processes.

SAP Academic Chair

Inaugural Holder, 2008–2013 · École Centrale Paris.

Business Intelligence.

The SAP Chair connected business intelligence with data mining, machine learning, and data-driven computational methods.

Selected honorary and visiting academic titles

  • 2014–2029: Visiting Professor, University of Greenwich, London, United Kingdom (three appointments: 2014–2017, 2023–2026, and 2026–2029).
  • 2019–present: Distinguished Guest Professor, Hubei University, Wuhan, China.
  • 2016–2024: Visiting Professor (2016–2017) and Chair Professor (2017–2024), Providence University, Taichung, Taiwan (eight consecutive annual appointments, from 2016–2017 to 2023–2024).
  • 2016–2017: Distinguished Chair Professor, Feng Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan.
  • 2014–present: Visiting Professor, Jianghan University, Wuhan, China.
  • 2014–present: Honorary Fellow, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China.
  • 2012–present: Honorary Professor, University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary.
  • 2011–2019: Visiting Fellow (2011–2014) and Visiting Professor (2014–2019), Doshisha University, Kyotanabe, Japan (eight consecutive annual appointments).

Selected plenary and keynote lectures

  • 2026: GDR I-GAIA 2026 — IA frugale pour les sciences de l’ingénieur, Paris, France.
  • 2017: Fifth International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, Grid and Cloud Computing for Engineering, Pécs, Hungary.
  • 2014: Fifth IMACS Conference on Mathematical Modelling and Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering, in honour of Professor Owe Axelsson, Rožnov pod Radhoštěm, Czech Republic.
  • 2012: Eighth International Conference on Engineering Computational Technology, Dubrovnik, Croatia.
  • 2007: International Workshop on Applied Mathematics and Computational Science, in honour of Professor Hideo Kawarada, Chōfu, Japan.
  • 2004: Workshop of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (JSME), Tokyo, Japan.
  • 2004: Workshop of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Chōfu, Japan.

Selected editorial appointments

Book series

  • Series Editor: Wiley–ISTE Computer Engineering series.
  • Editor-in-Chief: Chapman & Hall/CRC Series on Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing.

Journals

  • Associate Editor: Frontiers of Computer Science; Journal of Algorithms and Computational Technology.
  • Editorial boards: Numerical Algorithms; Advances in Engineering Software; Engineering Applications of Computational Fluid Mechanics; International Journal of Computer Mathematics.

Guest editing and edited publications

Edited publications include Guest-edited journal issues, Edited Books and Edited Conference Proceedings addressing domain decomposition, wave propagation, high-performance computing, complex systems and learning methods.

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