LIVERMORE, Calif. — Tamara Kolda has accepted a section editorship of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics’ Journal on Scientific Computing [SIAM SISC], overseeing the portion reserved for high-performance computing and software.
“The journal just formed this section due to increased interest in computing,” Kolda said. “I was excited to be asked to serve as inaugural editor.”
Kolda had served on the journal’s editorial board for six years and had strongly advocated for starting the new section.
Sandia researchers now play important roles in the two main academically-recognized journals that cover software, she says. These are her journal and the Association for Computing Machinery’s [ACM’s] Transactions on Mathematical Software, where Mike Heroux will soon be editor-in-chief.
“Sandia has a very strong and diverse computing program that meshes with our role in supercomputing,” Kolda said.
Kolda’s research interests include multilinear algebra and tensor decompositions, data and graph mining, optimization, nonlinear solvers, graph algorithms, cybersecurity, parallel computing, and the design of scientific software.
Among her awards is a 2003 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). In 2009, Kolda was recognized with a Sandia Award for Excellence for Laboratory Directed Research & Development for work related to tensor decompositions. Additionally, Kolda was a contributor to the Trilinos project, a suite of numerical software packages and winner of a 2004 R&D 100 award. In addition, she is also an associate editor for SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and a senior member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
Sandia National Laboratories is a multiprogram laboratory operated and managed by Sandia Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lockheed Martin Corporation, for the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration. With main facilities in Albuquerque, N.M., and Livermore, Calif., Sandia has major R&D responsibilities in national security, energy and environmental technologies, and economic competitiveness.
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