{"id":230,"date":"2020-12-08T18:47:59","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T18:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/farouki\/?page_id=230"},"modified":"2024-06-16T06:45:20","modified_gmt":"2024-06-16T13:45:20","slug":"biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/farouki\/biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>\n\t\t\t\tBiography<br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/h2>\n<h3>&nbsp;<\/h3>\n<h3>Education:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>BA, Engineering Science, Oxford University, 1978<\/li>\n<li>MS, Astronomy and Space Sciences, Cornell University, 1981<\/li>\n<li>MA (Honorary), Engineering Science, Oxford University, 1982<\/li>\n<li>PhD, Astronomy and Space Sciences, Cornell University, 1983<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>&nbsp;<\/h3>\n<h3>Experience:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>1983-1986 : Research Scientist, GE Corporate Research and Development, Schenectady NY<\/li>\n<li>1986-1994 : Research Staff Member, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights NY<\/li>\n<li>1994-1998 : Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Michigan<\/li>\n<li>1998-2016 : Professor, Dept. of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering, University of California, Davis<\/li>\n<li>2001-2005 : Chair, Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Davis<\/li>\n<li>2016-present : Distinguished Professor, Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Davis<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>&nbsp;<\/h3>\n<h3>Distinctions:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Visiting Professor, Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell&#8217;Informazione e Scienze Matematiche, Universita di Siena, Italy, May 2024<\/li>\n<li>Visiting Professor, Dipartimento di Matematica, Universita di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy, September 2022<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/cs2022.sciencesconf.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Invited Speaker, Curves and Surfaces 2022 Conference, Arcachon, France, June 20-24, 2022<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/solidmodeling.org\/awards\/bezier-award\/rida-farouki\/\">Pierre Bezier Award, Solid Modeling Association, 2021<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/siam.org\/conferences\/cm\/conference\/gdspm21\">Co-Chair, SIAM Conference on Geometric and Physical Modeling, University of California Davis, September 27-29, 2021<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/conferences.matheo.si\/event\/35\/\">Invited Speaker, Conference on Geometry: Theory and Applications, Gozd Martuljek, Slovenia, September 20-24, 2021<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kma.zcu.cz\/gmp2021\/index.php?clanek=organizers\">Co-Chair, Geometric Modeling and Processing Workshop (GMP 2021), Plzen, Czech Republic, May 10-13, 2021<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Chair, SIAM Activity Group on Geometric Design, 2019-2020<\/li>\n<li>Invited Speaker, INdAM Workshop on Design of Reliable, Exact, and Application-Oriented Techniques for Geometric Modeling and Numerical Simulation, Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica \u201cFranceso Severi,\u201d Rome, Italy, January 22-26, 2018<\/li>\n<li>Distinguished Professor, University of California Davis, 2016<\/li>\n<li>Invited instructor, Spring 2016 INdAM School on Hypercomplex Function Theory and Applications, Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Universita di Firenze, Italy, June 2016<\/li>\n<li>Invited Speaker, SMART 2014 Conference, Pontignano, Italy, 2014<\/li>\n<li>Editor-in-Chief,&nbsp;<em>Computer Aided Geometric Design<\/em>&nbsp;(Elsevier), 2014-present<\/li>\n<li>Invited Speaker, 19th IMACS World Congress, San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Spain, 2013<\/li>\n<li>Invited Speaker, Workshop on Mathematics and Algorithms for Computer-Aided Manufacturing, Engineering and Numerical Control, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, 2011<\/li>\n<li>Invited Speaker, New Frontiers in Computer Aided Geometric Design, Bertinoro, Italy, 2010<\/li>\n<li>College of Engineering Dean\u2019s Award for Outstanding Teaching, UC Davis, 2009<\/li>\n<li>ASUCD Excellence in Education Award for College of Engineering, UC Davis, 2009<\/li>\n<li>Invited Speaker, Algebraic Geometry and Geometric Modeling Conference, Lijiang, China, 2009<\/li>\n<li>Visiting Professor, Universite Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France, 2009<\/li>\n<li>Invited Speaker, Geometric Modeling and Processing Conference, Hangzhou, China, 2008<\/li>\n<li>Invited Speaker, Asian Symposium on Computer Mathematics, Singapore, 2007<\/li>\n<li>Invited Speaker, Workshop on Computational Methods for Algebraic Spline Surfaces, Strobl, Austria, 2007<\/li>\n<li>Invited Speaker, Zero 2007 Workshop, Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Seoul, Korea, 2007<\/li>\n<li>Invited Speaker, Algebraic Geometry and Geometric Modeling Conference, Barcelona, Spain, 2006<\/li>\n<li>John Gregory Memorial Award for Outstanding Contributions in Geometric Modeling, 2005<\/li>\n<li>Invited Public Lecture, Australian Mathematical Society 49th Annual Meeting, Perth, Australia, 2005<\/li>\n<li>Invited Speaker, 11th IMA Conference on the Mathematics of Surfaces, Loughborough, England, 2005<\/li>\n<li>Invited Speaker, 5th International Conference on Curves and Surfaces, Saint Malo, France, 2002<\/li>\n<li>Invited Speaker, Mathematics and Visualization 2002 Workshop, Berlin, Germany, 2002<\/li>\n<li>Invited Speaker, Surface Approximation and Visualization II Conference, Westport, New Zealand, 2002<\/li>\n<li>Associate Editor,&nbsp;<em>Advances in Computational Mathematics&nbsp;<\/em>(Springer), 2001-2014<\/li>\n<li>Invited Speaker, EuroConference on CAE Integration \u2013 Tools, Trends, and Technologies, Cambridge, England, 2001<\/li>\n<li>Co-Chair, SIAM Conference on Geometric Design and Computing, Sacramento CA, 2001<\/li>\n<li>Invited Speaker, Geometric Modeling and Processing Conference, University of Hong Kong, China, 2000<\/li>\n<li>Chair, MSRI Workshop on Mathematical Foundations of CAD, Berkeley CA, 1999<\/li>\n<li>Chair, SIAM Workshop on Integration of CAD and CFD, Davis CA, 1999<\/li>\n<li>Co-Chair, SIAM Conference on Geometric Design, Albuquerque NM, 1999<\/li>\n<li>Invited Speaker, 4th International Conference on Curves and Surfaces, Saint Malo, France, 1999<\/li>\n<li>Chair, SIAM Activity Group on Geometric Design, 1999-2001<\/li>\n<li>Pi Tau Sigma Professor of the Term Award, University of Michigan, 1998<\/li>\n<li>Invited Speaker, 8th IMA Conference on the Mathematics of Surfaces, Birmingham, England, 1998<\/li>\n<li>Excellence in Teaching Award, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, 1997<\/li>\n<li>Invited Speaker, Mathematical Methods for Curves and Surfaces Conference, Lillehammer, Norway, 1997<\/li>\n<li>Invited Speaker, 6th IMA Conference on the Mathematics of Surfaces, Brunel University, England, 1994<\/li>\n<li>Invited Speaker, International Conference on Computer-Aided Geometric Design, Penang, Malaysia, 1994<\/li>\n<li>Invited Speaker, SIAM 40th Anniversary Meeting, Los Angeles CA, 1992<\/li>\n<li>Invited Speaker, 2nd SIAM Conference on Geometric Design, Tempe AZ, 1991<\/li>\n<li>Invited Speaker, Conference on Curves, Surfaces, CAGD, and Image Processing, Biri, Norway, 1991<\/li>\n<li>Invited Speaker, Geometric Modeling Workshop, IMPA, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, 1991<\/li>\n<li>Associate Editor,&nbsp;<em>Computer Aided Geometric Design<\/em>&nbsp;(Elsevier), 1990-2014<\/li>\n<li>Invited Speaker, SIAM Conference on Geometric Design, Tempe AZ, 1989<\/li>\n<li>Oustanding Technical Achievement Award, IBM Research Division, 1988<\/li>\n<li>Invited Speaker, 3rd IMA Conference on the Mathematics of Surfaces, Oxford, England, 1988<\/li>\n<li>Graduate Student Prize, Astronomical Society of New York, 1982<\/li>\n<li>Andrew D. White Fellowship, Cornell University, 1978-1981<\/li>\n<li>Maurice Lubbock Memorial Prize in Engineering Science, Oxford University, 1978<\/li>\n<li>Open Scholarship, New College, Oxford, 1975-1978<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography &nbsp; Education: BA, Engineering Science, Oxford University, 1978 MS, Astronomy and Space Sciences, Cornell University, 1981 MA (Honorary), Engineering Science, Oxford University, 1982 PhD, Astronomy and Space Sciences, Cornell University, 1983 &nbsp; Experience: 1983-1986 : Research Scientist, GE Corporate Research and Development, Schenectady NY 1986-1994 : Research Staff Member, IBM Thomas J. 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