Gene Golub - Accomplishments & Awards 

(The following list is by no means comprehensive. It is intended only as a brief overview of the remarkable career of Gene Golub.)

• Fletcher Jones Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University
• Over 300 published papers
  Some of the many areas where he made significant contributions include:
  
  • The computation of the singular value decomposition
  • Matrix factorizations
  • Least Squares Problems
  • Iterative Methods
  • Krylov Subspace Methods
  • Eigenvalue problems
  • Inverse Eigenvalue Problems
  • Total Least Squares
  • Updating techniques
  • Linear programming algorithms
  • Many areas of Statistical Computing
  • Domain Decomposition
  • Many Applied Problems

• Co-authored or co-edited 15 books (Covers of books co-authored by Golub)
• 31 Ph.D. students  (For details see the Golub Tree Web site)
• Awarded 9 Honorary Degrees
• Membership in the National Academy of Sciences and other academies
• President of the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
• Founding editor of 2 SIAM journals
• Initiated NA-Net electronic newsletter
• Initiator of the ICIAM conferences