Biography

Dr. Kolda is a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories. She has led numerous projects in computational science and data analysis on topics in multilinear algebra and tensor decompositions, graph models and algorithms, data mining, optimization, nonlinear solvers, parallel computing and the design of scientific software. Her work has been cited more than 13,000 times.

Her work has received several honors, including a 2003 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), an R&D100 award, and three best paper prizes at international conferences. She was named a Distinguished Scientist of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in 2011 and a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) in 2015.

She has given keynotes talks at a variety of meetings including the Joint Mathematics Meeting (JMM), the International Symposium on Mathematical Programming (ISMP), the SIAM Conference on Computational Science & Engineering (CS&E), the SIAM Annual Meeting, and the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM). She is currently a member of the SIAM Board of Trustees and serves as associate editor for both the SIAM J. Scientific Computing and the SIAM J. Matrix Analysis and Applications. She is also the editor-in-chief of the new SIAM J. Mathematics of Data Science.

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• SIAM Conference of Computational Science & Engineering (CSE19)

  Spokane, Washington, Feb 25, 2019 - Mar 1, 2019 (Organizing Committee)

• UIUC Distinguished Lecture

  University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Oct 1, 2018 (Colloquium Talk)

• KDD18

  London, UK, Aug 19, 2018 - Aug 23, 2018 (Senior Program Committee)

• SIAM Annual Meeting (AN18)

  Portland, OR, Jul 9, 2018 - Jul 13, 2018 (Minisymposium Organizer, Minisymposium Speaker)

• TRICAP2018

  Angel Fire, NM, Jun 10, 2018 - Jun 15, 2018 (Invited Participant)

• FEASTPACK - MATLAB and C codes for graph analysis, including BTER code for graph generation and our wedge sampling technique for triangle counting
• Poblano Toolbox for MATLAB - Large-scale algorithms for unconstrained nonlinear optimization
• HOPSPACK - A C++ hybrid optimization parallel search package for derivative-free optimization
• MET - Memory-efficient Tucker computation (requires Tensor Toolbox)
• Tensor Toolbox for MATLAB - Higher-order operations of multidimensional arrays
• NOX - A C++ Nonlinear Solver Package
• Trilinos - A suite of high-performance numerical codes (including NOX)
• APPSPACK - A C++ derivative-free optimization package
• SDDPACK - C and MATLAB code for the semi-discrete matrix decomposition

• tgkolda@sandia.gov  (preferred) or tammy.kolda@gmail.com
• 925-294-4769
• Sandia National Labs, Livermore, California, USA