Wil Schilders
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Mathematics | L28
Wil Schilders studied Mathematics, with Physics and Astronomy, at the Radboud University in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, from 1974-1978, and obtained his PhD in numerical analysis from Trinity College Dublin in 1980. From 1980-2006 he worked at Philips Research, performing research on mathematical methods and software for semiconductor device simulation and electronic circuit simulation, and from 2006-2010 at NXP Semiconductors. Since 1999, he was also a part-time professor at TU Eindhoven on scientific computing for industry. In 2010, he moved to TU Eindhoven, and also became the director of the Dutch Platform for Mathematics. He has been active within the European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry (ECMI), being president in 2010-2011 and chairing the Research and Innovation Committee for many years. From 2015-20, he was president of EU-MATHS-IN, the European Service Network of Mathematics for Industry and Innovation (www.eu-maths-in.eu). Since October 1, 2023, he is the president of the International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM). In 2020, he was the 4th Mittelsten-Scheid guest professor at Bergische Universitaet Wuppertal, and since 2021 he is a Hans Fischer Senior Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at TU Munich. He is a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) and was awarded the Dutch Stairway to Impact award end of 2022. In 2023, he organized the SIAM conference on Computational Science and Engineering in Amsterdam, with 2100+ participants. He supervised 25 PhD students, and led more than 10 European projects. His main expertise is in numerical linear algebra, model order reduction (he was chair of EU-MORNET) and recently has become interested in scientific machine learning, a combination of numerical analysis/scientific computing and machine learning (his motto: ‘’Real intelligence is needed to make artificial intelligence work’’). He has a large network, also with industry, and is very interested in sustainability and the role of mathematics herein.
At TU Eindhoven:
https://www.tue.nl/en/research/researchers/wil-schilders/
At TU Munich – IAS:
https://www.ias.tum.de/ias/research-areas/advanced-computation-and-modeling/scientific-machine-learning/
ICIAM:
https://iciam.org/