Weng Cho Chew
Biography
Weng Cho Chew’s pioneering contributions to computational electromagnetics have made solutions to large real-world problems possible, greatly impacting a diverse range of fields including device design, antennas, and photonics. Among Chew’s fast solvers that make it possible to simulate the electromagnetic behavior of structures of unprecedented size, his multilevel fast multipole algorithm (MLFMA) changed the size of problems that can be solved by six orders of magnitude, permitting the solution of problems of enormous geometrical complexity. Chew’s numerical mode matching method has become the standard technology in electromagnetic well logging tools for the oil industry and is also used to solve microwave and optical waveguide problems. His distorted Born iterative method for multiple scattering inverse problems and multiphysics methods are impacting disciplines beyond electromagnetics.
An IEEE Fellow, Chew is a Fisher Distinguished Professor of Engineering with the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA.
