Andrzej Święch, professor in the School of Mathematics, has been named a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (AMS). He is one of only 40 mathematical scientists recognized this year for outstanding contributions to the creation, exposition, advancement, communication, and utilization of mathematics.

“I am honored to be named an AMS Fellow and join this distinguished group of mathematicians,” says Święch, who joined Georgia Tech in 1993.

Święch is a leading global expert in the theory of viscosity solutions in nonlinear partial differential equations and has published numerous seminal papers in this and other fields. His research is fundamental to advances in pure and applied mathematics and scientific problem solving.

He has served on the editorial boards of several academic journals, including Applied Mathematics and Optimization Journal (2016-present), Mathematical Control and Related Fields (2011-18), and Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Journal on Control and Optimization (2006-12). Święch gave the plenary lecture at the 2022 SIAM Annual Meeting and received, jointly with Shigeaki Koike, the Journal of the Mathematical Society of Japan’s 2010 Outstanding Paper Prize. In 2017, he coauthored, with Giorgio Fabbri and Fausto Gozzi, the book, Stochastic Optimal Control in Infinite Dimension: Dynamic Programming and HJB Equations.

Święch earned his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of California, Santa Barbara.