Linda Petzold

Biography

Dr. Linda Petzold is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Department of Computer Science (Chair 2003-2007), and Director of the Computational Science and Engineering Graduate Emphasis at the University of California Santa Barbara. She is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences and theUS National Academy of Engineering, and a Fellow of ACM, ASME, SIAM, AIMBE and AAAS. She was named the UCSB Faculty Research Lecturer for 2011, was awarded the SIAM/ACM Prize for Computational Science and Engineering in 2013, received an Honorary Doctorate from Uppsala University in 2015, the SIAM Prize for Distinguished Service in 2016, and the IEEE Sidney Fernbach Prize in 2018.