北京应用物理与计算数学研究所是承担国家重大科研任务为主，同时开展基础和应用理论研究的多学科研究机构。截至2022年7月21日，研究所现有职工650余人，其中各类专业技术人员500多人，包括研究员130多人，中国科学院院士、中国工程院院士共15人，享受政府特殊津贴人员32人，国家杰出青年科学基金获得者9人。
在人才培育方面，研究所设有物理与数学两个博士后流动站。具有物理学和数学两个一级学科博士学位授予权；理论物理、等离子体物理、粒子物理与原子核物理、无线电物理、光学、流体力学、应用数学、计算数学、基础数学九个二级学科博士学位授予权；计算机应用二级学科硕士学位授予权。
研究所主办有全国性学术刊物《计算物理》、《计算数学通讯》；是中国原子分子数据研究联合体的主持单位；是全国性学术刊物《偏微分方程》、《中国图像图形学报》的主办单位之一；是全国计算物理学会、北京国际计算物理中心、中国物理学会咨询委员会和原子分子物理专业委员会、中国空气动力学会物理气动力学专业委员会的挂靠单位。
几十年来，在全所职工的共同努力下，研究所为国家建设和科学技术的发展做出了重大贡献。
研究所获国家自然科学奖、国家科技进步奖、军队科技进步奖以及求是奖、何梁何利奖等各类科技成果奖500余项。多人获得全国“五一劳动奖章”，全国劳动模范、全国创新争先奖等荣誉。于敏院士获2014年国家最高科技奖。

Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics is a multi-disciplinary research institution that undertakes major national scientific research tasks and simultaneously carries out basic and applied theoretical research. As of July 21, 2022, the Institute has more than 650 staff members, including more than 500 professionals, including more than 130 researchers, 15 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering, 32 recipients of special government subsidies, and 9 recipients of the National Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars.
In terms of talent cultivation, the Institute has two post-doctoral stations in physics and mathematics. It has the right to confer doctoral degrees in physics and mathematics. It has the right to confer doctor degree in nine secondary disciplines: theoretical physics, plasma physics, particle physics and nuclear physics, radio physics, optics, fluid mechanics, Applied Mathematics, Computational Mathematics and basic Mathematics. The right to confer master degree of computer application discipline.
The institute hosts national academic journals "Computational Physics" and "Computational Mathematics Communication". It is the presiding unit of China Atomic and Molecular Data Research Consortium. It is one of the sponsors of national academic journals "Partial Differential Equations" and "Chinese Journal of Image and Graphics". It is affiliated to the National Society of Computational Physics, Beijing International Center for Computational Physics, the Advisory Committee of Chinese Physical Society, the Professional Committee of Atomic and Molecular Physics, and the Professional Committee of Physical Aerodynamics of Chinese Aerodynamic Society.
Over the decades, the institute has made great contributions to national construction and the development of science and technology with the joint efforts of all staff members.
The institute has won more than 500 scientific and technological achievement awards, including the National Natural Science Award, National Science and Technology Progress Award, Military Science and Technology Progress Award, Qiushi Award and Ho Liang Ho Li Award. Many of them have won the National "May 1 Labor Medal", the National Model worker, the National Innovation Prize and other honors. Academician Yu Min won the 2014 National Top Science and Technology Award.