Desmond Higham

Desmond Higham
Born (1964-02-17) 17 February 1964
Salford
Residence UK
Citizenship British
Alma mater

Victoria University of Manchester

(B.Sc. Ph.D. 1988)
Awards

SIAM Germund Dahlquist Prize (2005)
Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2006)
SIAM Fellow (2009)

EPSRC Established Career Fellowship (2015--2019)
Scientific career
Fields Numerical analysis
Institutions University of Strathclyde
Doctoral advisor George Hall
Doctoral students Xiaolin Xiao
Somkid Intep
Alan Taylor
Graeme Chalmers
Julie Morrison
Alan Bryden
Edward McDonald
Richard Wain
Abdul-Hadi Alim A. Khader
Tasneem Sardar
Mikolaj Roj
Martin McDonald

Desmond John Higham (born 17 February 1964 in Salford)[1] is a numerical analyst and 1966 Chair of Numerical Analysis in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom.[2]

He is a graduate of the Victoria University of Manchester gaining his BSc in 1985, MSc in and 1986 and PhD 1988. He was a postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto before taking up a Lectureship at the University of Dundee in 1990 and moving to a Readership at the University of Strathclyde in 1996.

Higham's main area of research is stochastic computation, with applications in computational biology, technological/sociological/security networks and mathematical finance.

He held a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (2012–2017)[3] and is a Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Fellow and Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He won the 2005 SIAM Germund Dahlquist Prize (2005).[4] He is a member of Sub-panel 10, Mathematical Sciences, for the 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF 2021).

Higham has authored four books:

  • Numerical Methods for Ordinary Differential Equations: Initial Value Problems (2010, with D. F. Griffiths),
  • An Introduction to Financial Option Valuation: Mathematics, Stochastics and Computation (2004),
  • MATLAB Guide (with his brother Nicholas Higham, 3rd edition, 2017),
  • Learning LaTeX (with D. F. Griffiths, 2nd edition 2016).

He also edited the book

  • Network Science: Complexity in Nature and Technology (2010, with Ernesto Estrada, Maria Fox and Gian-Luca Oppo).

He is Editor-in-Chief of SIAM Review and is a member of the editorial boards of several other journals.

References

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