Education:
Ph.D., Rice University
Research Interests:
- Numerical methods for partial differential equations, specifically flow and transport problems in CFD
- Scientific computing and parallel computing
- Finite element analysis
- Discontinuous Galerkin methods
- Shallow water systems, hurricane storm surge modeling, rainfall-induced flooding
- Ground water systems
- Flow in porous media
- Geochemistry
- Data assimilation, parameter estimation
- Uncertainty and error estimation
Clint Dawson is the chair of the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics and the director of the Computational Hydraulics Group in the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences. He received Bachelor of Arts and Master of Science degrees in mathematics from Texas Tech University in 1982 and 1984, respectively. He received his Ph.D. from Rice University in 1988 in mathematical sciences. From 1988 to 1990 he was a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow and Dickson Instructor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Chicago. In 1990 he returned to Rice as an assistant professor in the Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics. He was promoted to associate professor at Rice University in 1994. He moved to The University of Texas at Austin in 1995. He was promoted to full professor in 2000. He was named the Edward S. Hyman Endowed Chair in Engineering in 2011, the John J. McKetta Centennial Energy Chair in Engineering in 2014, and now holds the Cockrell Family Regents Chair in Engineering #2.
Dr. Dawson has authored or co-authored over 200 technical articles in the areas of numerical analysis, numerical methods and parallel computing, with applications to flow and transport in porous media, and shallow water systems. In 2001, he was elected Chair of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Activity Group on Geosciences. He has served on numerous conference organizing committees, review panels, and editorial boards. He is currently managing editor of Computational Geosciences. In 2011, he was given the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences Distinguished Research Excellence Award. He received the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Geosciences Career Prize in 2013. He was named a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in 2016. He was awarded the University of Texas President's Research Impact Award in 2024.
Email Preferences:
Research: clint@oden.utexas.edu
Department Chair: clint.dawson@austin.utexas.edu
