In honor of Women’s History Month, SIAM is spotlighting female mathematicians throughout March. SIAM member and Vice President for Science Policy, Dr. Anne Gelb, is a professor of mathematics at Dartmouth College.
Education and Awards
Dr. Gelb received her Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Brown University. Her advisor was Professor David Gottlieb. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the California Institute of Technology under the supervision of Professor Herbert Keller. She held a faculty position in the School of Mathematical and Statistical Science at Arizona State University until 2016, at which time she joined the Department of Mathematics at Dartmouth College.
In 1999 Dr. Gelb was awarded the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, and in 2012 the Fondation Sciences Mathématiques de Paris Fellowship. She currently holds the John G. Kemeny Parents Chaired Professorship at Dartmouth College.
Dr. Gelb is a numerical analyst focusing on high order methods for signal and image restoration, classification, and change detection for real and complex signals from temporal sequences of collected data. There are a wide variety of applications for her work, including speech recognition, medical monitoring, credit card fraud detection, automated target recognition, and video surveillance. A common assumption made in these applications is that the underlying signal or image is sparse in some domain. While detecting such changes from direct data (e.g. images already formed) has been well studied, Dr. Gelb’s focus is on applications such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), ultrasound, and synthetic aperture radar (SAR), where the temporal sequence of data are acquired indirectly. In particular, she develops algorithms that retain critical information for identification, such as edges, that is stored in the indirect data. Dr. Gelb is currently investigating how to use these techniques in a Bayesian setting so that the uncertainty of the solutions may also be quantified.
Her research is funded in part by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the Office of Naval Research, the National Science Foundation, and the National Institutes of Health, and she regularly collaborates with scientists at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Research Lab and the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL).
Recent Happenings
Since 2019, Dr. Gelb has been serving as the SIAM Vice President for Science Policy. She served as a member of the SIAM Science Policy Committee since 2014, and was a SIAM representative for the Joint Committee on Women in Mathematical Sciences from 2013 to 2015.
She is on the editorial boards for Journal of Computational Mathematics and Journal of Scientific Computing, and was previously on the editorial board for SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing.
Dr. Gelb was appointed for a three-year term to the ICERM Scientific Advisory Board in 2019. She has helped to organize several conferences and workshops, most recently the ICERM workshop in 2018 entitled “Advances in PDEs: Theory, Computation and Applications to CFD.”
Thank you, Dr. Gelb, for your leadership in the mathematical sciences and your contributions to SIAM!