Leslie Greengard

Short biography Leslie Frederick Greengard was born in 1957 in London, England, but grew up in the United States in New York City, Boston, and New Haven. He holds a B.A. in mathematics from Wesleyan University (1979), an M.D. from the Yale School of Medicine (1987), and a Ph.D. in computer science from Yale University (1987). and is currently a professor of mathematics and computer science at Courant. He is also a professor at New York University Tandon School of Engineering and the director of the Simons Center for Data Analysis.

He formerly served as the Director at the Center for Computational Biology at the Flatiron Institute. , he has assumed the directorship of the new Center of Computational Mathematics at the Institute.

He is the son of neuroscientist Paul Greengard and the nephew of Irene Kane, later known as Chris Chase, an actress, writer, and journalist.

Awards and honors 2016, fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 2014, Von Neumann Lecture, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics 2011, Wilbur Cross Medal 2010, Plenary Speaker, SIAM Annual Meeting 2010, "National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellowship", from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) 2006, elected to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering 2006, elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences 2005, Plenary Speaker, 2nd National Congress on Applied and Industrial Mathematics (France) 2004, "Margaret and Herman Sokol Faculty Award in the Sciences" from the New York University 2001, Leroy P. Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research from the American Mathematical Society (together with Vladimir Rokhlin), for their paper describing a new algorithm: the fast multipole method (FMM) 1990, "Fellowship for Science and Engineering" from the Packard Foundation 1990, Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation 1987–1989, "Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship" from the National Science Foundation 1987, Council of Graduate Schools/University Microfilms International Distinguished Dissertation Award, for his PhD. dissertation "The Rapid Evaluation of Potential Fields in Particle Systems" 1987, "Doctoral Dissertation Award", Series Winner from the Association for Computing Machinery 1987, Sandoz Thesis Award from the Yale School of Medicine 1979–1986, Public Health Service – National Research Service Award Medical Scientist Training Program