Linda Petzold
For her pioneering contributions and innovative approaches to numerical methods and software for differential algebraic systems and for discrete stochastic simulation.
Mehrabian Distinguished Professor, Departments of Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering,
University of California, Santa Barbara
- BA, Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 1974
- PhD, Computer Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 1978
A Chicago native, Linda Petzold is an applied mathematician and computer scientist, known particularly for her work on computational algorithms and public-domain software, for the solution of differential-algebraic equations and for discrete stochastic simulation.
Her exemplary career began in the Applied Mathematics Division of Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore and led her first to the Numerical Mathematics Group at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and then to the Department of Computer Science at the University of Minnesota. Since 1997, she has been the Mehrabian Distinguished Professor of both the Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering Departments at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is also the director of the Computational Science and Engineering Graduate Emphasis, and she served as the chair of the Department of Computer Science from 2003-2007.
Linda has been recognized numerous times for her work on the numerical solution of differential algebraic equations, including being the first winner of the J. H. Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software for her work on DASSL, and winning the SIAM/ACM Prize in Computational Science and Engineering. She is a member of both the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering, as well as a fellow of AAAS, ASME, SIAM, ACM, AIMBE and AAIA.
Current as of February 2024