2026 Yousef Saad: Mathematics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Mathematics	84	107	87	59	45	366	68530
Engineering and Technology	84	394	371	135	123	382	68165

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Mathematics in United States Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Mathematics in United States Leader Award
2010 - SIAM Fellow For contributions in numerical linear algebra and its applications.
2010 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Yousef Saad is affiliated with the University of Minnesota in the United States. The research work spans the intersection of computer science, mathematics, and physics, with significant contributions in computational theory and mathematics, numerical analysis, and artificial intelligence.

Their research topics focus primarily on matrix theory and algorithms, electromagnetic scattering and analysis, numerical methods for differential equations, advanced optimization algorithms, iterative methods for nonlinear equations, model reduction and neural networks, and advanced graph neural networks.

Some of the recent papers include:

Graph coarsening: from scientific computing to machine learning, 2022, SeMA Journal
Solving the Three-Dimensional High-frequency Helmholtz Equation Using Contour Integration and Polynomial Preconditioning, 2020, SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications
A Power Schur Complement Low-Rank Correction Preconditioner for General Sparse Linear Systems, 2021, SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications
Shanks and Anderson-type acceleration techniques for systems of nonlinear equations, 2021, IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis
Proxy-GMRES: Preconditioning via GMRES in Polynomial Space, 2021, SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

Yuanzhe Xi
Ziyuan Tang
Vassilis Kalantzis
Ruipeng Li
Huan He

The prominent venues for their publications are:

arXiv (Cornell University)
SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications
SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing
Computing in Science & Engineering
Numerical Linear Algebra with Applications

Yousef Saad has been recognized with awards including the Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2010 and becoming a SIAM Fellow the same year for contributions in numerical linear algebra and its applications.

Best Publications

Iterative Methods for Sparse Linear Systems

Y. Saad

20802
Citations
GMRES: a generalized minimal residual algorithm for solving nonsymmetric linear systems

Youcef Saad;Martin H Schultz

15289
Citations
Numerical Methods for Large Eigenvalue Problems: Revised Edition

Yousef Saad

3564
Citations
Numerical Methods for Large Eigenvalue Problems

Y Saad

2307
Citations
A Flexible Inner-Outer Preconditioned GMRES Algorithm

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1715
Citations
Topological properties of hypercubes

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1465
Citations
Finite-difference-pseudopotential method: Electronic structure calculations without a basis.

James R. Chelikowsky;N. Troullier;Yousef Saad

1066
Citations
ILUT: A dual threshold incomplete LU factorization

Yousef Saad

965
Citations
Analysis of some Krylov subspace approximations to the matrix exponential operator

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790
Citations
Iterative solution of linear systems in the 20th century

Yousef Saad;Henk A. van der Vorst

706
Citations
Higher-order finite-difference pseudopotential method: An application to diatomic molecules

James R. Chelikowsky;N. Troullier;K. Wu;Y. Saad

626
Citations
Krylov subspace methods for solving large unsymmetric linear systems

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531
Citations
GPU-accelerated preconditioned iterative linear solvers

Ruipeng Li;Yousef Saad

404
Citations
Approximate Inverse Preconditioners via Sparse-Sparse Iterations

Edmond Chow;Yousef Saad

380
Citations
Two classes of multisecant methods for nonlinear acceleration

Haw Ren Fang;Yousef Saad

369
Citations
Orthogonal Neighborhood Preserving Projections: A Projection-Based Dimensionality Reduction Technique

E. Kokiopoulou;Y. Saad

361
Citations
Experimental study of ILU preconditioners for indefinite matrices

Edmond Chow;Yousef Saad

340
Citations
Fast Approximate k NN Graph Construction for High Dimensional Data via Recursive Lanczos Bisection

Jie Chen;Haw-ren Fang;Yousef Saad

325
Citations
PARSEC – the pseudopotential algorithm for real‐space electronic structure calculations: recent advances and novel applications to nano‐structures

Leeor Kronik;Adi Makmal;Murilo L. Tiago;Murilo L. Tiago;M. M. G. Alemany

318
Citations
Numerical Methods for Electronic Structure Calculations of Materials

Yousef Saad;James R. Chelikowsky;Suzanne M. Shontz

314
Citations
Convergence Theory of Nonlinear Newton–Krylov Algorithms

Peter N. Brown;Youcef Saad

313
Citations
Deflated and Augmented Krylov Subspace Techniques

Andrew Chapman;Yousef Saad

301
Citations
Dense Subgraph Extraction with Application to Community Detection

Jie Chen;Y. Saad

299
Citations
Practical Use of Polynomial Preconditionings for the Conjugate Gradient Method

Youcef Saad

270
Citations
Turbo charging time-dependent density-functional theory with Lanczos chains.

Dario Rocca;Ralph Gebauer;Yousef Saad;Stefano Baroni

255
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

James R. Chelikowsky The University of Texas at Austin

Kesheng Wu Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Jun Zhang University of Kentucky

Maarten V. de Hoop Rice University

Tony F. Chan University of California, Los Angeles

Leeor Kronik Weizmann Institute of Science

Peter Brown University of Oxford

Danny C. Sorensen Rice University

Georgios B. Giannakis University of Minnesota

Ananth Grama Purdue University West Lafayette

External Links

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