Margaret H. Wright
Professor Margaret H. Wright | |
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| Born | February 18, 1944 San Francisco, United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | B.S. in Mathematics, M.S., Ph.D. in Computer Science |
| Alma mater | Stanford University |
| Occupation | Computer scientist |
| Awards | Member of the National Academy of Sciences Member of the National Academy of Engineering Fellow of the American Mathematical Society President of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (1995-1996) Bell Labs Fellow Editor-in-Chief of SIAM Review (1999-2004) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Optimization, Linear Algebra, Scientific Computing |
| Institutions | NYU Courant, Bell Laboratories, Stanford University (Systems Optimization Laboratory), GTE Sylvania |
| Thesis | Numerical Methods for Nonlinearly Constrained Optimization (1976) |
| Doctoral advisor | Gene H. Golub, Walter Murray |
| Website | cs |
Margaret H. Wright (born February 18, 1944) is an American computer scientist and mathematician. She is a Silver Professor of Computer Science and former chair of the Computer Science department at Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, with research interests in optimization, linear algebra, and scientific computing. She was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1997 for development of numerical optimization algorithms and for leadership in the applied mathematics community. She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2005. She was the first woman to serve as President of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.