Hugh C. Williams holds the iCORE Chair in Algorithmic Number Theory and Computing at the University of Calgary and is a professor in the Mathematics and Statistics Department at that institution. His main research interests are in computational number theory, cryptography and the design and development of special-purpose hardware devices. His work in computational number theory extends from analyzing the complexity of number theoretic algorithms to the actual implementation and testing of such algorithms.
Dr. Williams has published more than 130 refereed journal papers, 20 refereed conference papers and 20 books (or chapters therein). From 1983-85 he held a national Killam Research Fellowship. He has been an associate editor for Mathematics of Computation since 1978 and is also a member of the editorial boards of two other journals. Dr. Williams has also served on the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Grant Selection Committees for both Computing and Information Science (1972-1975) and Pure and Applied Mathematics (1991-1994), and chaired the latter from 1993-1994. He has also been a member of the Steacie Awards Selection Committee.