Clint N. Dawson

Clint N. Dawson is a full-time Professor and Department Chair of the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at the University of Texas at Austin. He also serves as the Director of the Computational Hydraulics Group within the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences. His research focuses on numerical methods for partial differential equations, computational engineering, and scientific computing.

• Education
  • Ph.D., Mathematical Sciences, Rice University (1988)
  • M.S., Mathematics, Texas Tech University (1984)
  • B.A., Mathematics, Texas Tech University (1982)

Dr. Dawson specializes in computational modeling of shallow water systems, groundwater flow, and discontinuous Galerkin methods, with applications in hurricane storm surge prediction and subsurface hydrology. His work bridges numerical analysis, parallel computing, and environmental science.

Dr. Dawson has received numerous honors, including:

• Southeastern Conference Achievement Award (2025)
• President’s Research Impact Award, UT Austin (2024)
• SIAM Geosciences Career Prize (2013)
• SIAM Fellow (2016)
• ICES Distinguished Research Excellence Award (2011)

He has served as Chair of the SIAM Activity Group on Geosciences and Managing Editor of Computational Geosciences, with leadership roles in editorial boards and conference organizing committees.