Howard S. Cohl

Howard S. Cohl is a mathematician at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, Maryland; technical editor of the NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions; and chair of the SIAM Activity Group on Orthogonal Polynomials and Special Functions. His research focuses on special functions, including hypergeometric series, orthogonal polynomials in the Askey and \(q\)-Askey schemes, their \(q^{−1}\)-symmetric polynomial counterparts, and function generalizations of these families.