Charles Lee Powell Professor of Applied and Computational Mathematics
B.S., South China University of Technology, 1982; M.S., University of California (Los Angeles), 1985; Ph.D., 1987. Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics, Caltech, 1993-98; Professor, 1998-2000; Professor of Applied and Computational Mathematics, 2000-04; Powell Professor, 2004-. Executive Officer for Applied and Computational Mathematics, 2000-06.
Research interests: multiscale analysis and computation, interfacial problems, stochastic PDEs and uncertainty quantification, global regularity of 3D incompressible Euler and Navier-Stokes equations, adaptive data analysis
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Professor Hou focuses on multiscale problems arising from geophysical applications and fluid dynamics, the Millennium Problem on the 3D incompressible Navier-Strokes equations, model reduction for stochastic problems with high dimensional input variables, and adaptive data analysis.
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