Linda Petzold

Linda Ruth Petzold (born 1954)

Education Petzold did both her undergraduate and graduate studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, earning a bachelor's degree in mathematics and computer science in 1974 and a doctorate in computer science in 1978 under the supervision of C. William Gear.

Recognition Petzold was the first winner of the J. H. Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software, for her work on DASSL, a system for the numerical solution of differential algebraic equations. She was also the inaugural Kovalesky Lecturer in 2003 , and in 2013 she won the SIAM/ACM Prize in Computational Science and Engineering. She became a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in 2009 and of the Association for Computing Machinery in 2013; She is also a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

In January 2015 she was given an honorary doctorate by Uppsala University.