Salon Series: Deanna Needell
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm PDT
DataX Salons are informal conversations for attendees to become acquainted with a diverse group of UCLA data science, social science, physical and life science, and humanities scholars working broadly across issues at the intersection of data and society.
When: Fri. May 12, 2023 from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. PDT
About the speaker: Deanna Needell earned her BA in Computer Science and Mathematics from the University of Nevada, Reno and PhD from UC Davis in Mathematics before working as a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University. She is currently a full professor of mathematics at UCLA, the Dunn Family Endowed Chair in Data Theory, and the Executive Director for UCLA's Institute for Digital Research and Education. Her work is in applied mathematics and data science, with a focus on large-scale optimization, linear algebraic machine learning, and fairness in machine learning. Much of her work involves community partnerships with data-driven needs such as the California Innocence Project, Homeboy Industries, and lymedisease.org. She has earned many awards including the Alfred P. Sloan fellowship, an NSF CAREER award, the IMA prize in Applied Mathematics, and is a 2022 American Mathematical Society (AMS) Fellow. She has been a research professor fellow at several top research institutes including the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, SLMath, and Simons Institute in Berkeley. She also has served and serves as associate editor for IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Linear Algebra and its Applications, the SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences, and Transactions in Mathematics and its Applications as well as on the organizing committee for SIAM sessions and the Association for Women in Mathematics.