Joel A. Tropp | |
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| Born | July 1977 (age 46–47) |
| Nationality |  American |
| Alma mater | University of Texas |
| Known for | Matching pursuit, Randomized SVD, Matrix Chernoff bound |
| Awards | Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (2008) Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (2010) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Applied mathematics |
| Institutions | California Institute of Technology University of Michigan |
| Doctoral advisor | Inderjit Dhillon Anna C. Gilbert |
Joel Aaron Tropp (born July 1977 in Austin, Texas) is the Steele Family Professor of Applied and Computational Mathematics in the Computing and Mathematical Sciences Department at the California Institute of Technology. He is known for work on sparse approximation, numerical linear algebra, and random matrix theory.