Background
Miura, Robert Mitsuru Son of Richard Katsuki and Frances Yoneko Miura.
educator mathematician researcher
Miura, Robert Mitsuru Son of Richard Katsuki and Frances Yoneko Miura.
Bachelor of Science, University California-Berkeley, 1960. Master of Science, University California-Berkeley, 1962. Master of Arts, Princeton University, 1964.
Doctor of Philosophy, Princeton University, 1966.
Research associate Princeton University Plasma Physics Laboratory, 1965-1967. Associate research scientist Courant Institute of Mathematics Science, New York City, 1967-1968. Assistant professor mathematics New York University, 1968—1971.
Associate professor mathematics Vanderbilt University, Nashville, 1971—1975. Associate professor to professor mathematics University British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 1975—2001. Professor mathematics science and biomedical engineering New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, 2001—2007, distinguished professor, since 2007.
Associate chairman mathematics science New Jersey Institute of Technology, 2003—2005, director division biological science, 2004—2005, acting chairman mathematics science, 2005—2006. Co-program director, program in Quantitative Neurosci. Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 2006—2010.
Member steering committee Center Mathematics Research, University Montreal, 1990-1994. Member science advisory panel Fields Institute, Toronto, 2002-2006, member science nominating committee, 2003, chair Board Trustees Mathematics Biosciences Institute. Fellow John Simon Guggenheim, University of British Columbia honorary Killam, American Association for the Advancement of Science (nominating committee, mathematics section), Royal Society of Canada, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
Member American Mathematics Society (Leroy P. Steele prize-Seminal Contribution to Research, 2006), Society Industrial and Applied Mathematics (chairman joint committee on mathematics in life science 1981-1984. Vice chair, chair, activity group on the life science 2005-2006, 2007-2008, fellow since 2009), Canada Mathematics Society (international affairs committee), Society Mathematics Biology (board directors 1995-1998, nominating committee 1998), Pacific Institute of Mathematics Science (interim executive board 1996), Sigma Xi.
Married Kathryn Bannai. Children: Derek Katsuki, Brian Robert, Jared Bannai Nagae, Sean Takeo.