# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-y-hou
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:34:05.190Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-y-hou"
name: "Thomas Y. Hou"
slug: "thomas-y-hou"
description: "Thomas Yizhao Hou is a Chinese-American mathematician who is the Charles Lee Powell Professor of Applied and Computational Mathematics in the Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences at the California Institute of Technology. He is known for his work in numerical analysis and mathematical analysis."
tagline: "Chinese-American mathematician"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1962"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.04
  momentum:             9.333333333333332
  historical:           6.543449333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BE%AF%E4%B8%80%E9%92%8A"
    title: "侯一钊"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3_%D9%87%D9%88"
    title: "توماس هو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3_%D9%87%D9%88"
    title: "توماس هو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Y._Hou"
    title: "Thomas Y. Hou"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hou"
    title: "Thomas Hou"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hou"
    title: "Thomas Hou"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hou"
    title: "Thomas Hou"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1563332"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump