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Ronald F Boisvert (Assoc)
Guest Researcher, NIST Applied and Computational Mathematics Division
Ronald Boisvert is a guest researcher in the Applied & Computational Mathematics Division (ACMD) in the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Information Technology Laboratory (ITL). He received his Ph.D. in computer science from Purdue University in 1979 and has been at NIST since then. He served as the Division Chief of ACMD from 1998 to 2025. His research interests include numerical solution of partial differential equations, mathematical software, and information services that support computational science. He contributed to the development of the original ELLPACK system for elliptic boundary value problems, the NBS Core Math Library, VFFTPACK (for vectorized FFTs), VFNLIB (for vectorized Bessel functions), the Guide to Available Mathematical Software, and the Matrix Market. He is one of the principal editors for the NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions. He has served as Editor-in-Chief of the ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software (1992-2005), Co-Chair of the Numerics Working Group of the Java Grande Forum (1998-2003), Chair of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 2.5 on Numerical Software (2000-2012), and Co-Chair of the Publications Board of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) (2005-2013). He is a member of the ACM, the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), the American Mathematical Society (AMS), the IEEE Computer Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
Current Professional Service:
- Associate Editor, ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software
- Member, IFIP Working Group 2.5 (Numerical Software)
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Awards
- U.S. Department of Commerce Bronze Medal for Superior Federal Service (1984, 2001)
- U.S. Department of Commerce Silver Medal for Meritorious Federal Service (1992)
- Outstanding Contribution to ACM Award (2000)
- Keene State College Alumni Achievement Award (2002)
- ACM Distinguished Scientist (2006)
- International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Silver Core (2007)
- U.S. Department of Commerce Gold Medal for Distinguished Achievement (2011)
- Outstanding Alumni Award, Purdue University Department of Computer Science (2012)
- Annual Award in Mathematics and Computer Science, Washington Academy of Science (2014)
- Fellow, Washington Academy of Science (2014)
- Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (2016)
- Fellow, Association for Computing Machinery (2019)