Johann Rudi awarded Luther and Alice Hamlett Junior Faculty Fellowship

Johann Rudi, assistant professor of mathematics in the College of Science at Virginia Tech, has been awarded a Luther and Alice Hamlett Junior Faculty Fellowship by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors.

The Luther and Alice Hamlett Junior Faculty Fellowships were established through a generous bequest from the estate of the late Luther J. Hamlett ’45, who earned his bachelor’s degree in biology. They provide support for outstanding faculty members who hold the rank of assistant or associate professor and whose work supports the missions of the college’s Academy of Integrated Science or Computational Modeling and Data Analytics Program and with some past or present interaction with either.

A member of the Virginia Tech community for three years, Rudi, an affiliate of the Computational Modeling and Data Analytics Program, works in computational mathematics with external funding from the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and the U.S. Department of Energy. His research includes large scale parallel computational methods for modeling partial differential equations and data-driven approaches to inverse problems.

In 2015, he earned the ACM Gordon Bell Prize, one of the highest recognitions in high performance computing.

He has contributed to more than 50 publications, including recent articles in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Additionally, he is an active member of the computational modeling and data analytics group, mentoring undergraduates in research and teaching.

He previously spent four years in the Argonne Scholar program as a Wilkinson Fellow at the Argonne National Laboratory and as a fellow at the Northwestern-Argonne Institute of Science and Engineering.

He earned his Ph.D. in computational science, engineering, and mathematics from the University of Texas at Austin.