Career
He holds the William Norris Chair for Large-Scale Computing since January 2006. He is known for his contributions to the matrix computations, including the iterative methods for solving large sparse linear algebraic systems, eigenvalue problems, and parallel computing. Saad is listed as an Inter-Services Intelligence highly cited researcher in mathematics and is the author of the highly cited book "Iterative methods for sparse linear systems".
Saad received his Bachelor of Surgery degree in mathematics from the University of Algiers, Algeria in 1970.
He then joined University of Grenoble for the doctoral program and obtained a junior doctorate, "Doctorat de troisieme cycle" in 1974 and a higher doctorate, "Doctorat d’Etat" in 1983. He also worked as a Senior Scientist in the Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science (RIACS) during 1980–1990.
Saad joined University of Minnesota as a Professor in the Department of Computer Science in 1990. At Minnesota, he held the position of Head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering between January 1997 and June 2000.
Currently, he is the I. T. Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at University of Minnesota.
