Professor Frances Kuo

	Office:	RC-3061
	Extension:	57082
	Email:	f.kuo@unsw.edu.au
	Address:	School of Mathematics and Statistics University of New South Wales Sydney NSW 2052 Australia
	Phone:	+61 2 9385 7082
	Fax:	+61 2 9385 7123

Professor in Applied Mathematics

Quasi-Monte Carlo methods for high-dimensional numerical integration and approximation, PDEs with random coefficients and uncertainty quantification.

ARC Discovery Project (together with Ian Sloan) "High dimensional approximation, learning, and uncertainty" (2024 - 2026)
FWO Senior Research Project (together with Dirk Nuyens and Ronald Cools at KU Leuven, Belgium) "Analysis and Construction of Optimal Lattice Based Cubature: Theoretical developments for new algorithms, and randomization techniques, for non-periodic integrands" (2020 - 2023)
ARC Discovery Project (together with Ian Sloan) "High dimensional computation and uncertainty" (2021 - 2023)
ARC Discovery Project (together with Ian Sloan) "Towards a science of high dimensional computation" (2018 - 2020)
ARC Discovery Project (together with Josef Dick and Ian Sloan) "Quantifying uncertainty: innovations in high dimensional computation" (2015 - 2017)
ARC Future Fellowship "Liberating the dimension - frontier technologies for very high dimensional problems" (2013 - 2017)
ARC Discovery Project (together with Ian Sloan) "Very high dimensional computation - a new frontier in numerical analysis" (2011 - 2013)
ARC Queen Elizabeth II Fellowship, Discovery Project "Innovative methods for very high dimensional problems" (2007 - 2011)
UNSW Vice-Chancellors' Postdoctoral Fellowship (2004 - 2006)

Associate Editor of Mathematics of Computation (2016 - current)
Associate Editor of SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (2019 - 2024)
Associate Editor of SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis (2016 - 2024)
Associate Editor of Foundations of Computational Mathematics (2020 - 2021)
Associate Editor of SMAI Journal of Computational Mathematics (2018 - 2022)
Associate Editor of International Journal for Uncertainty Quantification (2019 - 2021)
Associate Editor of Journal of Complexity (2008 - 2019)

Member of MCM Steering Committee (2023 - current)
Member of MATRIX Scientific Committee (2019 - 2021)
Member of FoCM Board of Directors (2014 - 2020)
Member of AMSI Scientific Advisory Committee (2014 - 2016)
Member of HDA Steering Committee (2015 - 2025)
Member of MCQMC Steering Committee (2006 - 2016)

MATH1081 Discrete Mathematics (2008, 2012, 2013, 2018, 2019)
MATH1131 Mathematics 1A (2006, 2007, 2019, 2020, 2021)
MATH2089 Numerical Methods and Statistics (2013, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026)
MATH3101 Computing Methods for Differential Equations (2004, 2005)
MATH5175 Quasi-Monte Carlo and Finite Element Methods (2012, 2013)
MATH5295 Finite Element and Quasi-Monte Carlo and Methods (2015)