Primary Job Title Professor of Mathematics Primary Organization 
University of California, Los Angeles
Location Los Angeles, California, United States Regions Greater Los Angeles Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Male
Website www.math.ucla.edu/~sjo/ LinkedIn View on LinkedIn
Osher has been elected to the US National Academy of Science, the US National Academy of Engineering, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was awarded the SIAM Pioneer Prize at the 2003 ICIAM conference and the Ralph E. Kleinman Prize in 2005. He was awarded honorary doctoral degrees by ENS Cachan, France, in 2006 and by Hong Kong
Baptist University in 2009. He is a SIAM and AMS Fellow. He gave a one hour plenary address at the 2010 International Conference of Mathematicians.He also gave the John von Neumann Lecture at the SIAM 2013 annual meeting. He is a Thomson-Reuters highly cited researcher-among the top 1% from 2002-2017 in both Mathematics and Computer Science with an h index of 111, more than 105,000 citations and an average of one new citation per hour in recent years. In 2014 he received the Carl Friedrich Gauss Prize from the International Mathematics Union-this is regarded as the highest prize in applied mathematics. In 2016 he received the William Benter Prize. His current interests involve information science, which includes deep learning, optimization, image processing, compressed sensing and machine learning and applications of these techniques to the equations of medicine, physics, engineering and elsewhere.
