Ioana Dumitriu
Ioana Dumitriu (born July 6, 1976) is a Romanian-American mathematician who works as an associate professor of mathematics at the University of Washington.[1] Her research interests include the theory of random matrices, numerical analysis, scientific computing, and game theory.
Life
Dumitriu is the daughter of two Romanian electrical engineering professors from Bucharest. Early in her life she was identified as having mathematical talent, and at age 11 won a national mathematics contest. She entered mathematics training camps in preparation for participation on the Romanian team at the International Mathematical Olympiad, although her highest level of participation in the olympiad was the national semifinal. She fell in love with her mathematics coach, Dan Stefanica, and when he went to graduate school at New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, she followed him there as an undergraduate.[2]
As a 19-year-old freshman at NYU, Dumitriu already was taking graduate-level classes in mathematics.[3] She graduated summa cum laude from NYU in 1999 with a B.A. in mathematics and a minor in computer science.[1] She earned her Ph.D. in 2003 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under the supervision of Alan Edelman.[4] After postdoctoral research as a Miller Research Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, she joined the faculty of the University of Washington in 2006.[1]
Awards and honors
Dumitriu won the Alice T. Schafer prize for excellence in mathematics by an undergraduate woman in 1996,[3] and the Leslie Fox Prize for Numerical Analysis (given to a young numerical analysis researcher who excels both mathematically and in presentation skills) in 2007.[5] In 2012, she became one of the inaugural fellows of the American Mathematical Society.[6]
First female Putnam fellow
In 1996, as a sophomore at New York University, Dumitriu became the first woman to become a Putnam Fellow, meaning that she earned one of the top five scores at the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition.[2] In 1995, 1996, and 1997 she won the Elizabeth Lowell Putnam Award that is given to the top woman in the contest, a record that was not matched until ten years later when Alison Miller also won the same award in three consecutive years.[7]
References
- ^ a b c Curriculum vitae, 2009, retrieved 2014-12-24.
- ^ a b Arenson, Karen W. (May 1, 1997), "Q: How Many Women Have Won the Top Math Contest?", New York Times
- ^ a b Seventh Annual Alice T. Schafer Prize, Association for Women in Mathematics, retrieved 2014-12-30.
- ^ Ioana Dumitriu at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ IMA Leslie Fox Prize for Numerical Analysis Winners, retrieved 2014-12-24.
- ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2014-12-24.
- ^ Putnam Competition Results: Harvard Captures Top Prize, Mathematical Association of America, March 17, 2008, retrieved 2014-12-24.
External links
- 1976 births
- Living people
- American people of Romanian descent
- Numerical analysts
- Romanian mathematicians
- 20th-century American mathematicians
- 21st-century American mathematicians
- Women mathematicians
- Romanian emigrants to the United States
- Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences alumni
- University of Washington faculty
- Putnam Fellows
- Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni