David E. Keyes is a Senior Associate to the President of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) [1] and the Director of the Extreme Computing Center at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST).
[2] He was the inaugural Dean of the Division of Computer, Electrical, and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering (CEMSE) at KAUST and remains an adjunct professor in Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics at Columbia University and an affiliate of several laboratories of the U.S. Department of Energy.
Keyes graduated summa cum laude in Aerospace and Mechanical Sciences from Princeton in 1978 and earned a doctorate in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University in 1984.
He served on the faculties of Yale, Old Dominion, and Columbia Universities before taking up his current post in 2009.
[7] Recently, Prof. Keyes has been elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) [8]