Faculty Profile

Linda Petzold

Professor

Contacts

Department of Computer Science
Room 5107 Harold Frank Hall
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5070

tel: (805) 893-5362
petzold@engineering.ucsb.edu

Personal web site

Research Description

Computational Science and Engineering:
Modeling, simulation and analysis of multiscale systems in systems biology and materials.

Research Groups

• Computational Science and Engineering

Biography

Dr. Linda Petzold is currently Professor in the Department of Computer Science (Chair 2003-2007) and the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and Director of the Computational Science and Engineering Graduate Emphasis at the University of California Santa Barbara. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1978 from the University of Illinois. Dr. Petzold is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of ACM, ASME, SIAM and AAAS. She was named the UCSB Faculty Research Lecturer for 2011, and was awarded the SIAM/ACM Prize for Computational Science and Engineering in 2013. Her research focuses on modeling, simulation and analysis of multiscale systems in systems biology and materials.

Affiliations

• Institute for Collaborative Biotechnology
• Center for Control, Dynamical Systems and Computation

Awards/Honors

• SIAM/ACM Prize in Computational Science and Engineering, 2013
• ACM Fellow, 2011
• UCSB Faculty Research Lecturer, 2011
• SIAM Fellow, 2009
• ASME Fellow, 2008
• AAAS Fellow, 2005
• National Academy of Engineering, 2004
• AWM/SIAM Kovalevsky Prize, 2003
• Dahlquist Prize, 1999
• JSPS Fellowship for Research in Japan, 1994
• Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software, 1991

Selected Publications