| Omar Ghattas | |
| Nationality: | American |
| Alma Mater: | Duke University |
| Doctoral Students: | George Biros |
| Known For: | PDE-constrained optimization |
| Field: | Computational mechanics Inverse problems Uncertainty quantification |
| Work Institution: | Carnegie Mellon University University of Texas at Austin Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences |
Omar Ghattas is the John A. and Katherine G. Jackson Chair in Computational Geosciences and Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Geological Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin.
Ghattas obtained a Ph.D. in computational mechanics from Duke University. He is the director of the Center for Computational Geosciences and Optimization at the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences.[1] [2] [3]
Ghattas was twice awarded a Gordon Bell Prize that "recognizes outstanding achievement in high-performance computing applications".[4] In 2019, Ghattas was awarded the SIAM Geosciences Career Prize for “groundbreaking contributions in analysis, methods, algorithms, and software for grand challenge computational problems in geosciences, and for exceptional influence as mentor, educator, and collaborator.”[5]