Presenter

Tamara G. Kolda is a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, CA. She holds a Ph.D. in applied mathematics from the University of Maryland at College Park and is a past Householder Postdoctoral Fellow in Scientific Computing at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. She has received several awards for her work including a 2003 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), an R&D 100 Award, and three best paper prizes. She is a Distinguished Scientist of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). She is currently a member of the SIAM Board of Trustees, Section Editor for the Software and High Performance Computing Section for the SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, and Associate Editor for the SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications.