Serge Prudhomme joined the Department of Mathematics and Industrial Engineering at Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal in 2012. Prior to this appointment, he held positions at the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin, first as research associate from 2001 to 2004, then as research scientist. His research interests cover a wide range of topics in computational engineering and sciences, but have long focused on the development of reliable and efficient computational methods for the prediction of physical phenomena. He is generally interested in a posteriori error estimation and adaptive methods for numerical approximations of partial differential equations and has contributed to the development of so-called goal-oriented methods to control discretization and modeling errors. He has been working more recently on the development of verification and validation processes for predictive simulation-based engineering and science. Serge Prudhomme has published more than 60 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters in scientific journals and has given more than 85 invited talks and short courses at international conferences and workshops. He graduated from Ecole Centrale de Lille, France, in 1991 with a diploma in engineering and received an M.Sc. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from the University of Virginia, USA, in 1992. He then earned a Ph.D. in 1999 in Aerospace Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin.

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