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 Journal on Scientific Computing (SISC) and SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications (SIMAX). She is also the founding Editor-in-Chief for the new SIAM Journal on the Mathematics of Data Science (SIMODS).

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• SIAM Conference on Applied Algebraic Geometry

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

• 2019 Gene Golub Summer School

  Center Paul-Langevin, France, Jun 17, 2019 - Jun 28, 2019 (Lecturer)

• Algorithmic, Mathematical, and Statistical Foundations of Data Science and Applications (Workshop)

  Purdue University, West Layfayette, IN, Apr 11, 2019 - Apr 13, 2019 (Keynote Speaker)

• SIAM Conference of Computational Science & Engineering (CSE19)

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

• NCSU RED Talk: Where Data Meets Science

  North Carolina State University, Rayleigh, NC, Oct 29, 2018 (Colloquium Talk)

• Statistics at a Crossroads: Challenges and Opportunities in the Data Science Era (NSF Workshop)

  Arlington, VA, Oct 15, 2018 - Oct 17, 2018 (Attendee)

• UIUC Distinguished Lecture

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

• 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