Nicholas Higham

Nick Higham
Born	Nicholas John Higham (1961-12-25) 25 December 1961 (age 55) Salford
Residence	UK
Citizenship	British
Nationality	British
Fields	Mathematics Numerical analysis Numerical linear algebra Mathematical software
Institutions	University of Manchester Cornell University
Alma mater	University of Manchester
Thesis	Nearness Problems in Numerical Linear Algebra (1985)
Doctoral advisor	George Hall
Doctoral students	Awad Al-Mohy Mary Aprahamian Rüdiger Borsdorf Sheung Hun Cheng Anthony Cox Philip Davies Gareth Hargreaves Hyun Kim Ramaseshan Kannan Philip Knight Lijing Lin Craig Lucas D. Steven Mackey Pythagoras Papadimitriou Harikrishna Patel Samuel Relton Matthew Smith
Notable awards	Alston Householder Award VI (1987) Leslie Fox Prize for Numerical Analysis (1988) Junior Whitehead Prize (1999) Fellow of the Royal Society (2007) Fröhlich Prize (2008) SIAM Fellow (2009)
Website www.maths.manchester.ac.uk/~higham nickhigham.wordpress.com

Nicholas John Higham FRS (born 25 December 1961 in Salford) is a British numerical analyst and Richardson Professor of Applied Mathematics at the School of Mathematics at the University of Manchester.

Higham was educated at the University of Manchester, gaining his Bachelor of Science degree in 1982, Master of Science degree in 1983 and PhD 1985. His PhD thesis was supervised by George Hall.

Higham is Director of Research within the School of Mathematics, Director of the Manchester Institute for Mathematical Sciences (MIMS), and Head of the Numerical Analysis Group. He held a prestigious Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (2003–2008) and as of 2006^[update] is on the Institute for Scientific Information Highly Cited Researcher list.

Higham is best known for his work on the accuracy and stability of numerical algorithms. He has more than 85 refereed publications on topics such as rounding error analysis, linear systems, least squares problems, matrix functions and nonlinear matrix equations, condition number estimation, and generalized eigenvalue problems. He has contributed software to LAPACK and the NAG library, and has contributed code included in the MATLAB distribution.

Higham is a member of the editorial boards of the journals Forum of Mathematics, Foundations of Computational Mathematics, IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis, Linear Algebra and its Applications, Numerical Algorithms, and SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications.

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