Layne Watson honored among 2024 class of SIAM fellows – Sanghani Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics

Layne Watson. Photo by Peter Means for Virginia Tech.

The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) has named Layne Watson, a professor in three departments at Virginia Tech – computer science, mathematics, and aerospace and ocean engineering – and core faculty at the Sanghani Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics, part of the 26-member 2024 class of SIAM fellows.

SIAM is an international community of more than 1,400 individual members and nearly 500 academic, manufacturing, research and development, service and consulting organizations, government, and military are institutional members. Members are nominated to the fellowship program in recognition of their outstanding research and service to the community. Through their various contributions, SIAM fellows form a crucial group of individuals helping to advance the fields of applied mathematics, computational science, and data science.

A SIAM member since 1976, Watson is being recognized particularly for pioneering the theoretical development, algorithm design, software implementation, and application of homotopy methods. Homotopy theory is part of topology, a branch of theoretical mathematics.

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