Margaret H. Wright

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Professor
Margaret H. Wright
Born (1944-02-18) February 18, 1944 (age 80)
NationalityAmerican
EducationB.S. in Mathematics, M.S., Ph.D. in Computer Science
Alma materStanford University
OccupationComputer scientist
AwardsMember 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
FieldsOptimization, Linear Algebra, Scientific Computing
InstitutionsNYU Courant, Bell Laboratories, Stanford University (Systems Optimization Laboratory), GTE Sylvania
Thesis Numerical Methods for Nonlinearly Constrained Optimization  (1976)
Doctoral advisorGene H. Golub, Walter Murray
Websitecs.nyu.edu/~mhw/

Margaret H. Wright (born February 18, 1944) is an American computer scientist and mathematician.[1][2][3][4] 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.[5] 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.

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  5. ^ "NYU faculty page visited 7 April 2008". Archived from the original on 20 May 2011. Retrieved 7 April 2008.