James Colliander

James Colliander is a Professor at The University of British Columbia and serves as the Director of PIMS (Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences) since 2016. His leadership has driven initiatives such as the cloud-hosted Syzygy platform, which supports computational research across Canadian and U.S. universities, and its educational offshoot Callysto for K-12 classrooms. He has organized impactful events like bc-data and the workshop Math to Power Industry, fostering academic-industrial collaboration.

• Committee Service: Arthur Beaumont Award Committee (2022)

Recognized with the Arthur Beaumont Distinguished Service Award in 2021, his contributions focus on advancing applied and industrial mathematics through infrastructure development and democratizing access to computational tools like Jupyter. His work bridges higher education, K-12 outreach, and industry partnerships.

• Key Research Areas: Applied mathematics, industrial mathematics, scientific computing, data science, computational resource development.