Research Team

Russell Luke

Russell Luke was born in Virgina, and grew up in central Ohio. He attended college at the University of California, Berkeley, where he graduated with honors in Applied Mathematics in 1991. After college, he took a break from an academic career, partly spent making documentary films and partly spent doing volunteer work in Eastern Washington State. He returned to Applied Mathematics at the University of Washington in Seattle, where he received a MSc in December of 1997, and PhD in June of 2001. He was a NASA Graduate Student Research Fellow from 1998 to 2001 which provided him with the central application of his PhD thesis on the theory and practice of numerical algorithms for adaptive optics to be used with the Next Generation Space Telescope, Hubble's replacement. After graduation he moved to the University of Gottingen in Germany to join the Institute for Numerical and Applied Mathematics. There he worked on inverse scattering theory and research cooperation with industry partners (July 2001 to April 2003). Since December of 2002 he has been with the Mathematics Department at Simon Fraser University near Vancouver Canada as a PIMS Research Fellow teaching and doing research on applications of variational and nonsmooth analysis and large-scale distributed computation.