Anne Trefethen

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Anne Trefethen
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Trefethen speaking at the Oxford Internet Institute in 2012
Born
Anne Elizabeth Daman[ citation needed ]
Alma mater Royal Military College of Science [1]
Spouse
(m. 19882008)
Awards
Scientific career
Fields High-performance computing
Scientific computing
Institutions Thinking Machines Corporation
Cornell Theory Center
Numerical Algorithms Group
University of Oxford

Anne Elizabeth Trefethen FREng is Pro Vice-Chancellor (People & Digital), and professor of Scientific Computing at the University of Oxford. She is a fellow of St Cross College. Her work in industry and academia focuses on numerical algorithms and software, computational science and high-performance computing. [2]

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On 1 June 2018, Trefethen joined the board of the UK Statistics Authority as a non-executive director. [3]

Research and career

Trefethen was appointed Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Academic Services and University Collections) at the University of Oxford in January 2015, [4] and is responsible for overseeing the university's libraries, museums and collections and its language teaching services. She was appointed the university's first chief information officer in March 2012 until October 2017, prior to which she served as Director of the Oxford e-Research Centre (2006–2012). [5] [6] and Co-Director of the Institute for the Future of Computing, part of the James Martin 21st Century School. [6] Before coming to Oxford in 2005, Trefethen was Deputy Director and then Director of the UK e-Science Core Programme that addressed broad issues in e-Science and Grid computing through the development of middleware and infrastructure. [6] [7] From 1997 - 2001 she was Vice-President for Research and Development at Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG) Ltd. Trefethen spent 1988 - 1997 in the US at Thinking Machines Corporation and was Associate Director for Scientific Computational Support at the Cornell Theory Center. [6]

In 2017 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. [8]

Publications

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References

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  3. "Appointment of two new Non-Executive Directors to the UK Statistics Authority Board" . Retrieved 27 May 2020.
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  6. 1 2 3 4 "Professor Anne Trefethen". St Cross College. 6 August 2012. Retrieved 13 October 2015.
  7. Hey, T; Trefethen, A E (2002). "The UK e-Science Core Programme and the Grid". Future Generation Computer Systems. 18 (8): 1017. CiteSeerX   10.1.1.105.7996 . doi:10.1016/S0167-739X(02)00082-1. S2CID   14930437.
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