Thomas F Coleman

Thomas F. Coleman is a Professor in the Department of Combinatorics and Optimization, as well as the Ophelia Lazaridis University Research Chair, at the University of Waterloo. He is also the Director of WatRISQ, an institute composed of finance researchers that spans several faculties at the university. From 2005 to 2010, Dr Coleman was Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Waterloo. Prior to this, he was Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University. He was also...See more

Thomas F. Coleman is a Professor in the Department of Combinatorics and Optimization, as well as the Ophelia Lazaridis University Research Chair, at the University of Waterloo. He is also the Director of WatRISQ, an institute composed of finance researchers that spans several faculties at the university. From 2005 to 2010, Dr Coleman was Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Waterloo. Prior to this, he was Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University. He was also Director of the Cornell Theory Center (CTC), a supercomputer applications center, and founded and directed CTC-Manhattan, a computational finance venture. Dr Coleman has authored three books on computational mathematics, edited six conference proceedings, and published over 80 journal articles in the areas of optimization, automatic differentiation, parallel computing, computational finance, and optimization applications. See less