Weng Cho Chew (Chinese: 周永祖;[a] born 1953) is a Malaysian-American electrical engineer and applied physicist known for contributions to wave physics, especially computational electromagnetics. He is a Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University.[1]
Career
Born in Malaysia, Chew received his bachelor's, master's and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1976, 1978 and 1980, respectively. Following his doctoral studies, Chew joined Schlumberger-Doll Research in 1981 where he rose to the rank of department manager. In 1985, he accepted a position at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where he was director of the electromagnetics lab from 1995 to 2007.[2] From 2007 to 2011, Chew served as dean of engineering at the University of Hong Kong. In 2017, Chew joined the school of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue University.
Chew has developed fast solvers that make it possible to simulate the electromagnetic behavior of structures of unprecedented sizes.[33] Specifically, his group had the first working multilevel fast multipole algorithm (MLFMA) that when adopted by other groups, subsequently helped increase the size of solvable problems by six orders of magnitude.[34][35][36][37] More recently, Chew has turned his attention toward combining quantum theory with electromagnetics, as well as combining computational electromagnetics with differential geometry.[38][39][40][41] He has also recently derived quantum Maxwell's equations directly in coordinate space.[42]
Notable students, postdoctoral researchers, visiting scholars of Chew include: Qing Huo Liu (Duke University, Eastern Institute for Advance Study, China),[45] Mahta Moghaddam (University of Southern California),[46] Fernando Teixeira (Ohio State University),[47] Kaladhar Radhakrishnan (Intel),[48] Lijun Jiang (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Missouri Tech, USA),[49] Phil Atkins (KLA Tencor), Jiming Song (Iowa State University),[50] Karl Warnick (Brigham Young University),[51] Bill Weedon (Applied Radar), Larkin Hastriter (AFIT), Meisong Tong (Tongji U, China), Zaiping Nie (U Electronic Science Technology China), Shinichiro Ohnuki (Nihon University, Japan), Yumao Wu (Fudan University, China), Dong-Yeop Na (Pohang University, Korea), Tie-Jun Cui (Southeast University, China), and Maokun Li (Tsinghua U, China).
Awards and honors
Chew was elected Member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2013, “for contributions to large-scale computational electromagnetics of complex structures.”[52] He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) (1993),[53] the Optical Society of America (2003),[54] the Institute of Physics (2004), the Electromagnetics Academy (2007)[55] and the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (2009). Chew received the IEEE Electromagnetics Award in 2017,[56] the Applied Computation Electromagnetics Society Award in Computational Electromagnetics in 2015,[57] and the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Chen-To Tai Distinguished Educator Award in 2008, “[f]or outstanding contributions to education in the fields of electromagnetic theory and computational electromagnetics.”[58] He also received the Sergei A. Schelkunoff Best Paper Award from IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation (with Jun-Sheng Zhao) in 2001,[59] the Campus Wide Excellence in Professional and Graduate Teaching Award from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2001, and the IEEE Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award in 2000,[60] among other recognitions. He was among the few who won two IEEE Technical Fields Awards: Graduate Teaching, and Electromagnetics. Chew was named an ISI Highly Cited Researcher in 2001[61] and he was an honorary professor at Tsinghua University, China, honorary professor at National Taiwan University, Taipei, and was a distinguished visiting scholar at The University of Hong Kong.[62] He was recently awarded the Pioneer Award by SPWLA.
Publications
Books
Chew WC, Waves and Fields in Inhomogeneous Media, Wiley-IEEE, 1995.
Chew WC, Jin HM, Michielssen E, Song J, (Eds), Fast and Efficient Algorithms in Computational Electromagnetics, Artech House, 2001.
Chew WC, Tong MS, Hu B, Integral Equation Methods for Electromagnetic and Elastic Waves, Springer, 2022.
Tong MS, Chew WC, The Nyström Method in Electromagnetics, Wiley-IEEE, 2020.
Articles
Xia, T., Atkins, P., Sha, W. E. I., & Chew, W. C. (open access) "Casimir Force: Vacuum Fluctuation, Zero-Point Energy, and Computational Electromagnetics," IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine. doi:10.1109/MAP.2021.3073118.
Sha, W. E. I., Liu, A. Y., and Chew, W. C. (2018) "Dissipative quantum electromagnetics," IEEE Journal on Multiscale and Multiphysics Computational Techniques,3:198–213.
Chew, W. C., Liu, A. Y., Salazar-Lazaro, C., & Sha, W. E. I. (2016) "Quantum Electromagnetics: A New Look—Part I," IEEE Journal on Multiscale and Multiphysics Computational Techniques, 1:73–84.
Chew, W. C., Liu, A. Y., Salazar-Lazaro, C., & Sha, W. E. I. (2016) "Quantum Electromagnetics: A New Look—Part II," IEEE Journal on Multiscale and Multiphysics Computational Techniques, 1: 85–97.
^Chew, W. C.; Barone, S.; Anderson, B.; Hennessy, C. (September 1984). "Diffraction of Axisymmetric Waves in a Borehole by Bed Boundary Discontinuities". Exploration Geophysics. 15 (3): 192–193. Bibcode:1984Geop...49.1586C. doi:10.1071/EG984192a. ISSN0812-3985.
^Chew, W. C.; Sen, P. N. (November 1982). "Dielectric enhancement due to electrochemical double layer: Thin double layer approximation". The Journal of Chemical Physics. 77 (9): 4683–4693. Bibcode:1982JChPh..77.4683C. doi:10.1063/1.444369. ISSN0021-9606.
^Li, Mao-Kun; Chew, Weng C.; Jiang, Li J. (September 2006). "A domain decomposition scheme based on equivalence theorem". Microwave and Optical Technology Letters. 48 (9): 1853–1857. doi:10.1002/mop.21777. ISSN0895-2477. S2CID110316672.
^Chew, W.C.; Liu, Q. (August 1988). "Resonance frequency of a rectangular microstrip patch". IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. 36 (8): 1045–1056. Bibcode:1988ITAP...36.1045C. doi:10.1109/8.7216.
^Xiong, J.L.; Weng Cho Chew (July 2008). "Thin-stratified medium fast-multipole algorithm (TSMFMA) for Solving 2.5D microstrip structures". 2008 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium. IEEE. pp. 1–4. doi:10.1109/aps.2008.4620025. hdl:10722/63923. ISBN9781424420414. S2CID38433159.
^Song, J. M.; Chew, W. C. (1995). "Multilevel fast-multipole algorithm for solving combined field integral equations of electromagnetic scattering". Microwave and Optical Technology Letters. 10 (1): 14–19. doi:10.1002/mop.4650100107. ISSN1098-2760.
^Lu, Cai-Cheng; Chew, Weng Cho (July 1994). "A multilevel algorithm for solving a boundary integral equation of wave scattering". Microwave and Optical Technology Letters. 7 (10): 466–470. doi:10.1002/mop.4650071013.
^Chew, W.C.; Lu, C.-C. (July 1993). "The use of Huygens' equivalence principle for solving the volume integral equation of scattering". IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. 41 (7): 897–904. Bibcode:1993ITAP...41..897C. doi:10.1109/8.237620.
^Sheng, X.Q.; Jin, J.-M.; Song, J.; Chew, W.C.; Lu, C.-C. (November 1998). "Solution of combined-field integral equation using multilevel fast multipole algorithm for scattering by homogeneous bodies". IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. 46 (11): 1718–1726. Bibcode:1998ITAP...46.1718S. doi:10.1109/8.736628.
^Weng Cho Chew, Jian-Ming Jin, Eric Michielssen, Jiming Song (2001). Fast and efficient algorithms in computational electromagnetics. Boston: Artech House. ISBN1580531520. OCLC46693947.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^Chew, Weng Cho; Weedon, William H. (September 1994). "A 3D perfectly matched medium from modified maxwell's equations with stretched coordinates". Microwave and Optical Technology Letters. 7 (13): 599–604. Bibcode:1994MiOTL...7..599C. doi:10.1002/mop.4650071304.
^Teixeira, F.L.; Chew, W.C. (1997). "Perfectly matched layer in cylindrical coordinates". IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium 1997. Digest. Vol. 3. Montreal, Que., Canada: IEEE. pp. 1908–1911. doi:10.1109/APS.1997.631652. ISBN9780780341784. S2CID38308228.
^Chew, W.C.; Liu, Q.H. (December 1996). "Perfectly Matched Layers for Elastodynamics: A New Absorbing Boundary Condition". Journal of Computational Acoustics. 04 (4): 341–359. doi:10.1142/S0218396X96000118. ISSN0218-396X.
^Chew, W.C.; Wang, Y.M. (June 1990). "Reconstruction of two-dimensional permittivity distribution using the distorted Born iterative method". IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. 9 (2): 218–225. doi:10.1109/42.56334. PMID18222767.
^Moghaddam, M.; Chew, W.C. (January 1992). "Nonlinear two-dimensional velocity profile inversion using time domain data". IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 30 (1): 147–156. Bibcode:1992ITGRS..30..147M. doi:10.1109/36.124225.
^Chen, Fu-Chiarng; Chew, Weng Cho (1998-06-08). "Experimental verification of super resolution in nonlinear inverse scattering". Applied Physics Letters. 72 (23): 3080–3082. Bibcode:1998ApPhL..72.3080C. doi:10.1063/1.121547. ISSN0003-6951.
^Chew, W.C.; Lin, J.H. (December 1995). "A frequency-hopping approach for microwave imaging of large inhomogeneous bodies". IEEE Microwave and Guided Wave Letters. 5 (12): 439–441. doi:10.1109/75.481854.
^Hidayetoglu, Mert; Chunxia Yang; Lang Wang; Podkowa, Anthony; Oelze, Michael; Wen-Mei Hwu; Chew, Weng Cho (August 2016). "Parallel solutions of inverse multiple scattering problems with born-type fast solvers". 2016 Progress in Electromagnetic Research Symposium (PIERS). Shanghai, China: IEEE. pp. 916–920. doi:10.1109/PIERS.2016.7734520. ISBN9781509060931. S2CID594558.
^Song, J.; Cai-Cheng Lu; Weng Cho Chew (October 1997). "Multilevel fast multipole algorithm for electromagnetic scattering by large complex objects". IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. 45 (10): 1488–1493. Bibcode:1997ITAP...45.1488S. doi:10.1109/8.633855.
^Yang, Ming-Lin; Wu, Bi-Yi; Gao, Hong-Wei; Sheng, Xin-Qing (2019). "A Ternary Parallelization Approach of MLFMA for Solving Electromagnetic Scattering Problems with Over 10 Billion Unknowns". IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. 67 (11): 6965–6978. Bibcode:2019ITAP...67.6965Y. doi:10.1109/TAP.2019.2927660. ISSN0018-926X. S2CID199120481.
^Ergül, Özgür; Gürel, Levent (2014-05-23). The Multilevel Fast Multipole Algorithm (MLFMA) for Solving Large-Scale Computational Electromagnetics Problems: Ergul/The Multilevel Fast Multipole Algorithm (MLFMA) for Solving Large-Scale Computational Electromagnetics Problems. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. doi:10.1002/9781118844977. ISBN9781118844977.
^Shu Chen; Weng Cho Chew (August 2016). "Discrete electromagnetic theory with exterior calculus". 2016 Progress in Electromagnetic Research Symposium (PIERS). Shanghai, China: IEEE. pp. 896–897. doi:10.1109/PIERS.2016.7734512. ISBN9781509060931. S2CID33945327.