July 9, 2024

Purdue Professor Weng Cho Chew receives Pioneer Award from SPWLA

Known as an Award of Appreciation, the Pioneer Award is conferred by the SPWLA Board of Directors to a non-member of the Corporation who has performed some notable service to the Corporation.
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Weng Cho Chew, Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Weng Cho Chew, Distinguished Professor in Purdue University’s Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has received an award for his technical work from The Society of Petrophysicists and Well Log Analysts (SPWLA). Known as an Award of Appreciation, the Pioneer Award is conferred by the SPWLA Board of Directors to a non-member of the Corporation who has performed some notable service to the Corporation. This is only the 4th time the Pioneer Award has been given since 2017. It was presented to Chew during the 2024 SPWLA 65th Annual Symposium, which took place May 18 – 22 in Rio de Janeiro.

Chew’s research interests are in wave physics, specializing in fast algorithms for multiple scattering imaging and computational electromagnetics in the last 30 years. His recent research combines quantum theory with electromagnetics, and differential geometry with computational electromagnetics.

Chew joined the Purdue ECE faculty in August 2017 as a Distinguished Professor. He has co-authored three books, many lecture notes, over 450 journal papers, and more than 600 conference papers. He is a fellow of various societies, and an ISI highly cited author. In 2013, Chew was elected to the National Academy of Engineering and in 2015 received the ACES Computational Electromagnetics Award. He received the 2017 IEEE Electromagnetics Award.