Suzanne Weekes

Suzanne Louise Weekes is the chief executive officer of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. She is also Professor of Mathematical Sciences at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). She is a co-founder of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Undergraduate Program. She graduated in 1989 from Indiana University Bloomington with a major in mathematics and a minor in computer science.

Career Weekes is the co-director of the Preparation for Industrial Careers in Mathematical Sciences, which helps faculty in the U.S. engage their students with Industrial math research. She is a professor of mathematical sciences at Worcester Polytechnic Institute as well as a cofounder of MSRI-UP, a research experience for undergraduates that aims to increase under represented groups in math programs by providing them with research opportunities. In December 2019, she was elected to the executive committee of the Association for Women in Mathematics as an at large member.

Awards and recognition In 2015, Weekes received the Denise Nicoletti Trustees' Award for Service to Community. Weekes was recognized by Mathematically Gifted & Black as a Black History Month 2017 Honoree. She won one of the Deborah and Franklin Haimo Awards for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics from the Mathematical Association of America in 2020. She was honored as the 2022 AWM-MAA Etta Zuber Falconer Lecturer. Weekes was selected a Fellow of the Association for Women in Mathematics in the class of 2024 "for her consistent and outstanding support for broadening the participation of women and girls as well as others that are underrepresented in mathematics; for her award-winning teaching and mentoring; and for her vision and success in co-creating and co-directing innovative programs that have improved and diversified the mathematics community."