Professor Linda Petzold
Department of Computer Science
University of California, Santa Barbara

Dr. Linda Petzold is currently Professor in the Departments of Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering, and Director of the Computational Science and Engineering program at the University of California Santa Barbara. She is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). She was awarded the Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software in 1991, the Dahlquist Prize in 1999, and the AWM/SIAM Sonia Kovalevski Prize in 2003. She is well-known for her work on numerical algorithms and software for solution and sensitivity analysis of stiff systems of ordinary differential equations and differential-algebraic equations. Her recent work has focused on algorithms and software for multiscale discrete stochastic simulation of biochemical systems, and modeling in systems biology and electrodeposition.