Ozgur Yilmaz

Ozgur Yilmaz is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of British Columbia and the Director of the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS). His research focuses on the mathematics of information and data. He received his PhD in Applied and Computational Mathematics from Princeton University in 2001. He held a postdoctoral position at University of Maryland, College Park before joining UBC in 2004. Dr. Yilmaz serves on the editorial boards of various journals including Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis. He is affiliated with several institutes at UBC, including the Institute of Applied Mathematics, Data Science Institute, and CAIDA, and has served as the Deputy Director of the Banff International Research Station (BIRS) from 2019 - 2020. Since July 2022, he serves as the Director of the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS).