Algorithms for a New World: When Big Data and Mathematical Models Meet

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Alfio Quarteroni is Professor of Numerical Analysis and Director of MOX at the Politecnico of Milan (Italy). Formerly he was Director of the Chair of Modelling and Scientific Computing at the EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), Lausanne (Switzerland), from 1998 until the end of 2017. He is the founder (and first director) of MOX at Politecnico of Milan (2002) and MATHICSE at EPFL, Lausanne (2010). He is co-founder (and President) of MOXOFF, a spin-off company at Politecnico of Milan (2010).

He is the author of 25 books, editor of 9 books, author of more than 300 papers published in international Scientific Journals and Conference Proceedings, member of the editorial board of 25 International Journals and Editor in Chief of two book series published by Springer.

He has been an invited or plenary speaker in more than 300 International Conferences and Academic Departments, in particular he has been invited speaker at ICM 2002 in Beijing and plenary speaker at ICM 2006 in Madrid. Among his awards and honors are the NASA Group Achievement Award for the pioneering work in Computational Fluid Dynamics in 1992, the Fanfullino della Riconoscenza 2006, Città di Lodi, the Premio Capo D'Orlando 2006, the Ghislieri prize, 2013, the International Galileo Galilei prize for Sciences 2015, The Euler lecture in 2017. He is the Recipient of two ERC Advanced Grants: "MATHCARD", 2008, and "i-HEART", 2017, and of two ERC PoC (Proof of Concept) grants in 2012 and 2015, Recipient of the Galileian Chair from the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy,2001, doctor Honoris Causa in Naval Engineering from Universi ty of Trieste, Italy, 2003, SIAM Fellow (first row) since 2009, IACM (International Association of Computational Mechanics) Fellow since 2004. He is a member of the Italian Academy of Science, the European Academy of Science, and the Academia Europaea, the IMU Circle, and the Lisbon Academy of Science.

His research interests concern Mathematical Modelling, Numerical Analysis, Scientific Computing, and Application to fluid mechanics, geophysics, medicine and the improvement of sports performance. His research Group at EPFL has contributed to the preliminary design of Solar Impulse, the Swiss long-range experimental solar-powered aircraft project; his research group at EPFL has carried out the mathematical simulation for the optimisation of performances of the Alinghi yacht, the winner of two editions (2003 and 2007) of the America's Cup.

Alfio Quarteroni是意大利米蘭理工大學（Politecnico of Milan）的數值分析教授和MOX主任。他曾在1998年至2017年期間擔任瑞士洛桑聯邦理工學院（EPFL）的建模和科學計算主席。他是米蘭理工大學MOX（2002年）和EPFL MATHICSE（2010年）的創始人（也是首任主任）。他還是米蘭理工大學MOXOFF（2010年）的創辦人（兼董事長）。

他是25本書的作者，9本書的編輯，發表在國際科學期刊和會議論文中的超過300篇論文的作者，是25本國際期刊的編輯委員會成員，並且是Springer出版的兩本書系列的主編。

他曾在300多個國際會議和學術部門擔任邀請或主題演講嘉賓，特別是在2002年北京國際數學家大會（ICM）上擔任邀請演講嘉賓，以及在2006年馬德里ICM上擔任主題演講嘉賓。他的獎項和榮譽包括1992年NASA團隊成就獎，以表彰他在計算流體力學方面的開創性工作；2006年Fanfullino della Riconoscenza獎，Città di Lodi；2006年Premio Capo D'Orlando獎；2013年Ghislieri獎；2015年國際伽利略獎；2017年Euler演講。他是兩項ERC高級研究獎（'MATHCARD'，2008年，和'i-HEART'，2017年）的獲獎者，以及2012年和2015年兩項ERC PoC（概念驗證）獎的獲獎者。他還獲得了比薩諾馬爾超常規學校（Scuola Normale Superiore）的伽利略講座（2001年），以及2003年意大利的特里斯特大學（University of Trieste）頒發的船舶工程名譽博士學位。自2009年起，他是SIAM（美國工業和應用數學學會）的會士，自2004年起是IACM（國際計算力學協會）的會士。他是意大利科學院、歐洲科學院、歐洲科學院、IMU圈子和里斯本科學院的成員。

他的研究興趣涉及數學建模、數值分析、科學計算以及在流體力學、地球物理學、醫學和提高運動表現方面的應用。他在EPFL的研究小組為太陽動力飛機項目Solar Impulse的初步設計做出了貢獻；他在EPFL的研究小組為兩屆美洲杯（2003年和2007年）的冠軍Alinghi帆船的性能優化進行了數學模擬。