in Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology[2] where he was a member of the Pi Lambda Phi fraternity.
[2] In 1967, Orszag was appointed as a professor of applied mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he collaborated with Carl M. Bender,[2] and was a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study.
[4] In 1984, he was appointed Forrest E Hamrick Professor of Engineering at Princeton University.
[1] Orszag has won numerous awards including Sloan Fellowship and Guggenheim Fellowship,[6] the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Fluid and Plasmadynamics Award, the Otto Laporte Award of the American Physical Society, and the Society of Engineering Science's G. I. Taylor Medal.
He was the founder of and/or chief scientific adviser to a number of companies, including Flow Research, Ibrix (now part of HPQ), Vector Technologies, and Exa Corp.