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Benny Cheng

Education

BA, Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley (1983)
PhD, Mathematics, Massachussetts Institute of Technology (1987)
PhD, Statistics, University of California, Santa Barbara (1994)

Research Interests

Applications of advance statistics to oceanography
Modeling of oceans with parallel computers
Spectral analysis
Mathematical finance
Convex geometry
Cryptography

Projects

ECCO
The "Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean" (ECCO) project produces sustained estimates of the complete global three-dimensional state of the ocean by assimilating observations with ocean circulation models.

Professional Experience

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
(1996-present)
- Senior Member of Technical Staff, Ocean Circulation Group (2006-present)
- Member of Technical Staff, Ocean Data Assimilation Group (1997-2006)
- Postdoc, Wind Scatterometer Group (1996-1997)

Selected Awards

National Research Council Resident Research Associate, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (1994-1996)

Selected Publications

Fu, L-L, B. Cheng, and B. Qiu. 25-Day period large-scale oscillations in the Argentine Basin revealed by the TOPEX/Poseidon altimeter. Journal of Physical Oceanogrography, 31: 506-517, 2001.
Glazman R., and B. Cheng, Altimeter Observations of Baroclinic Inertia-Gravity Wave Turbulence, Proceedings of the Royal Society, London, March 1999.
Cheng B., P. Wang, Y. Chao, and M. Bonderenko. Climate Ocean Modeling on a Beowulf Class System, Proceedings of the Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'99), Las Vegas, 1999.
Rachev, S. and B. Cheng, Multivariate Stable Futures Prices, Mathematical Finance, 5, 1995, pp. 133-153.
Cheng, B., On a Problem of A. Pleijel, Geometriae Dedicata, 44, 1992, pp. 139-145.

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