Melvin Leok
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Current Information
Position: Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Institution: Purdue University, West Lafayette
Keywords: Computational Geometric Mechanics, Computational Geometric Control Theory, Numerical Analysis
Homepage: http://www.math.purdue.edu/~mleok/
Blog: http://intranet.math.purdue.edu/mleok/
Email: mleok AT math DOT purdue DOT edu
Affiliations
Groups:
Collaborators:
Anthony M. Bloch, Mathieu Desbrun, Anil Hirani, Islam Hussein, Sameer Jalnapurkar, Jerrold Marsden, Harris McClamroch, Amit Sanyal, Alan Weinstein, Matthew West, Dmitry Zenkov
Education
Undergraduate
Institution: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 1996-2000
Graduate
Institution: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 2000-2004
Advisor: Jerrold E. Marsen
Thesis: Foundations of Computational Geometric Mechanics
Students
Graduate students:
Taeyoung Lee
Postdocs:
Undergraduate students:
Biography
Born: 1975 | Singapore
Biography/Timeline: Melvin Leok is a tenure-track assistant professor of mathematics at Purdue University, West Lafayette, where his research is supported in part by a National Science Foundation applied mathematics grant. Prior to joining Purdue, he was a T.H. Hildebrandt research assistant professor of mathematics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he received a Horace H. Rackham Faculty Fellowship and Grant, and a Margaret and Herman Sokol Spring/Summer Research Grant.
He received his B.S. with honors and M.S. in Mathematics in 2000, and his Ph.D. in Control and Dynamical Systems with a minor in Applied and Computational Mathematics under the direction of Jerrold Marsden in 2004, all from the California Institute of Technology.
His primary research interests are in computational geometric mechanics, computational geometric control theory, discrete geometry, and structure-preserving numerical schemes, and particularly how these subjects relate to systems with symmetry and multiscale systems.
He was the recipient of the SIAM Student Paper Prize, and the Leslie Fox Prize (second prize) in Numerical Analysis, both in 2003, for his work on Foundations of Computational Geometric Mechanics. While a doctoral student at Caltech, he held a Poincaré Fellowship (2000-2004), a Josephine de Kármán Fellowship (2003-2004), an International Fellowship from the Agency for Science, Technology, and Research (2002-2004), a Tau Beta Pi Fellowship (2000-2001), and a Tan Kah Kee Foundation Postgraduate Scholarship (2000).
As a Caltech undergraduate, he received the Loke Cheng-Kim Foundation Scholarship (1996-2000), the Carnation Scholarship (1998-2000), the Herbert J. Ryser Scholarship (1999), the E.T. Bell Undergraduate Mathematics Research Prize (1999), and the Jack E. Froehlich Memorial Award (1999).
