Associate Professor of Mathematics at University of California at San Diego
Greater San Diego Area
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- Associate Professor of Mathematics at University of California at San Diego
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- Visiting Assistant Professor of Control and Dynamical Systems at California Institute of Technology
- Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Purdue University
- T. H. Hildebrandt Research Assistant Professor of Mathematics at University of Michigan
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- California Institute of Technology
- Raffles Junior College
- Raffles Institution
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Melvin Leok’s Summary
Melvin Leok is a tenured associate professor of mathematics at the University of California, San Diego, where his research is supported in part by grants from the National Science Foundation in applied and computational mathematics, including a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award. He serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Nonlinear Science, and the Journal of Geometric Mechanics.
Prior to joining UCSD, he was a tenure-track assistant professor of mathematics at Purdue University, a visiting assistant professor of control and dynamical systems at the California Institute of Technology, and a T.H. Hildebrandt research assistant professor of mathematics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. At Purdue, he was a nominee for the Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering, and at Michigan, he received a Horace H. Rackham Faculty Fellowship and Grant, and a Margaret and Herman Sokol Spring/Summer Research Grant.
He received his B.S. with honors and M.S. in Mathematics in 2000, and his Ph.D. in Control and Dynamical Systems with a minor in Applied and Computational Mathematics under the direction of Jerrold Marsden in 2004, all from the California Institute of Technology.
He was the recipient of the SciCADE New Talent Prize in 2007 for his work on Lie Group and Homogeneous Variational Integrators, and the SIAM Student Paper Prize, and the Leslie Fox Prize (second prize) in Numerical Analysis, both in 2003, for his work on Foundations of Computational Geometric Mechanics. While a doctoral student at Caltech, he held a Poincaré Fellowship (2000-2004), a Josephine de Kármán Fellowship (2003-2004), an International Fellowship from the Agency for Science, Technology, and Research (2002-2004), a Tau Beta Pi Fellowship (2000-2001), and a Tan Kah Kee Foundation Postgraduate Scholarship (2000).
Melvin Leok’s Specialties:
Computational Geometric Mechanics, Computational Geometric Control Theory, Numerical Analysis.
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Melvin Leok’s Groups:
American Mathematical Society, Foundations of Computational Mathematics, London Mathematical Society, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi., Caltech Alumni Association
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Caltech Control and Dynamical Systems
Melvin Leok’s Honors:
NSF CAREER Award, SciCADE New Talent Award, SIAM Student Paper Prize, Leslie Fox Prize in Numerical Analysis.
