Gene H. Golub

Gene H. Golub was born in Chicago on Feb. 29, 1932. He was educated in the Chicago public school system. He attended the Univerity of Illinois where he received his doctorate in 1959. Subsequently, he held an NSF Fellowship at the University of Cambridge. He joined the faculty of Stanford University in 1962 where he is currently the Fletcher Jones Professor of Computer Science. Until recently he served as the Director of the program in Scientific Computing and Computational Mathematics. He was chairman of the CS department from 1981 until 1984.

Golub is noted for his work in the use of numerical methods in linear algebra for solving scientific and engineering problems. This work has resulted in a book, Matrix Computations, co-authored with Charles Van Loan.

Golub has served as President of the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (1985-87). He is the founding editor of two SIAM journals: The SIAM Journal of Scientific and Statistical Computing and The SIAM Journal of Matrix Analysis and Applications. He is the originator of na-net and can be reached by e-mail as na.golub@na-net.stanford.edu.

Golub holds several honorary degrees, is a member of the The National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Sciences.