Halil Mete Soner is a Turkish American mathematician born in Ankara and is the Normal John Sollenberger Professor at Princeton University.
Soner's research interests are nonlinear partial differential equations; asymptotic analysis of Ginzburg-Landau type systems, viscosity solutions, and mathematical finance.
Currently he is working on mean field games and control and related nonlinear partial differential equations on Wasserstein spaces.
[1] In 1985, Soner was research associate at the Institute for Mathematics and Applied Sciences in Minneapolis, MN and, assistant professor and then professor between 1986-1998 in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. During 1997-1998 he was Research Associate at the Feza Gursey Institute for Basic Sciences in Istanbul and visiting professor of Mathematics at the Boğaziçi University, Istanbul and the University of Paris, Paris, France.
Then, he moved to Koç University where he served as the Dean of the College of Administrative Sciences and Economics until September 2007.