David E. Keyes is the Fu Foundation Professor of Applied Mathematics at Columbia University, an affiliate of the computational science activities at Argonne, Brookhaven, and Oak Ridge National Laboratories, and Acting Director of the Institute for Scientific Computing Research at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Columbia University is a private University in the United States and a member of the Ivy League. Argonne National Laboratory is one of the United States Department of Energy 's oldest and largest science and engineering research national laboratories and is Brookhaven National Laboratory ( BNL) is a United States national laboratory located in Upton New York on Long Island, and was formally established Oak Ridge National Laboratory ( ORNL) is a multiprogram science and technology National laboratory managed for the United States Department of Energy by The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ( LLNL) in Livermore California is a scientific research laboratory founded by the University of California in 1952 He received his Ph. D. in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University in 1984.
In 2007, Keyes was awarded the IEEE Sidney Fernbach Award for "outstanding contributions to the development of scalable numerical algorithms for the solution of nonlinear partial differential equations and exceptional leadership in high-performance computation. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers or IEEE (read eye-triple-e) is an international Non-profit, professional organization The Sidney Fernbach Award is an Award given to an individual for an outstanding contribution in the application of high performance computers using innovative approaches "