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 15,000 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 is currently an elected member of the SIAM Board of Trustees and a member of the National Academies’ Board on Mathematical Sciences and Analytics. She is the founding Editor-in-Chief for the new SIAM Journal on the Mathematics of Data Science (SIMODS), launched in 2018, and serves as associate editor for both the SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (SISC) and SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications (SIMAX).

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• SIAM Annual Meeting (AN20)

  Toronto, Canada, Jul 6, 2020 - Jul 10, 2020

• SIAM Conference on Mathematics of Data Science (MDS20)

  Cincinnati, OH, May 5, 2020 - May 7, 2020

• Rising Stars in Computational and Data Sciences

  Austin, TX, Apr 7, 2020 - Apr 8, 2020 (Co-organizer)

• SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing (PP20)

  Seattle, WA, Feb 12, 2020 - Dec 15, 2020 (Minisymposium Speaker)

• Princeton Computational & Applied Mathematics (PACM) Seminar

  Princeton, NJ, Nov 11, 2019 (Speaker)

• AI and Tensor Factorizations for Physical, Chemical, and Biological Systems

  Santa Fe, NM, Sep 17, 2019 - Sep 20, 2019 (Plenary Speaker)

• Intl. Conf. on Continuous Optimization ICCOPT 2019

  Berlin, Germany, Aug 3, 2019 - Aug 8, 2019 (Plenary Speaker)

• SIAM Conference on Applied Algebraic Geometry

  Bern, Switzerland, Jul 9, 2019 - Jul 13, 2019 (Invited Speaker)

• 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