Research/Areas of Interest
Numerical Linear and Multilinear Algebra, Scientific Computing, Image Reconstruction and Restoration
Education
- PhD, Applied Mathematics, University of Maryland, College Park, United States, 1997
- MA, Mathematics, Wake Forest University, United States, 1994
- BS, Mathematics, Wake Forest University, United States, 1992
Biography
Bio: Misha Kilmer is the William Walker Professor of Mathematics at Tufts University. She served concurrently as Deputy Director of the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM) at Brown University from July 2021-June 2025. In 2019, Prof. Kilmer was named a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) "for her fundamental contributions to numerical linear algebra and scientific computing, including ill-posed problems, tensor decompositions, and iterative methods." She served as a Section Editor for SIAM Review, SIAM's flagship journal, for five years. Prof. Kilmer had the honor of being a Kirk Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences at Cambridge University in Spring 2023. She is an inaugural member of the Tufts Chapter of the National Academy of Inventors, the 2023 recipient of the Tufts Faculty Distinguished Scholar Award and earned the unique distinction of being promoted directly from Assistant to Full Professor at Tufts in 2005.