Anne Trefethen

Computer scientist

Nick Trefethen

(m. 1988⁠–⁠2008)

Awards

Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (2017)

Scientific careerFieldsHigh-performance computing
Scientific computingInstitutionsThinking Machines Corporation
Cornell Theory Center
Numerical Algorithms Group
University of Oxford

Anne Elizabeth Trefethen FREng is Pro Vice-Chancellor (People & Digital), and professor of Scientific Computing at the University of Oxford. She is a fellow of St Cross College. Her work in industry and academia focuses on numerical algorithms and software, computational science and high-performance computing.^[2]

On 1 June 2018, Trefethen joined the board of the UK Statistics Authority as a non-executive director.^[3]

Research and career

Trefethen was appointed Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Academic Services and University Collections) at the University of Oxford in January 2015,^[4] and is responsible for overseeing the University's libraries, museums and collections and its language teaching services. She was appointed the University's first chief information officer in March 2012 until October 2017, prior to which she served as Director of the Oxford e-Research Centre (2006–2012).^[5]^[6] and Co-Director of the Institute for the Future of Computing, part of the James Martin 21st Century School.^[6] Before coming to Oxford in 2005, Trefethen was Deputy Director and then Director of the UK e-Science Core Programme that addressed broad issues in e-Science and Grid computing through the development of middleware and infrastructure.^[6]^[7] From 1997 - 2001 she was Vice-President for Research and Development at Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG) Ltd. Trefethen spent 1988 - 1997 in the US at Thinking Machines Corporation and was Associate Director for Scientific Computational Support at the Cornell Theory Center.^[6]

In 2017 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.^[8]

Publications

Sansone, Susanna-Assunta, et al. "Toward interoperable bioscience data." Nature genetics 44.2 (2012): 121–126.
Hey, Tony, and Anne E. Trefethen. "Cyberinfrastructure for e-Science." Science 308.5723 (2005): 817–821.
Hey, Anthony JG, and Anne E. Trefethen. "The data deluge: An e-science perspective." (2003): 809–824.
Hey, Tony, and Anne Trefethen. "e-Science and its implications." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 361.1809 (2003): 1809–1825.
Hey, Tony, and Anne E. Trefethen. "The UK e-science core programme and the grid." Future Generation Computer Systems 18.8 (2002): 1017–1031.

References

^ "Second International Conference on Algorithms for Approximation" (PDF). 1989. Archived (PDF) from the original on 29 July 2018.
^ "Anne Trefethen, director, Oxford e-Research Centre". Numerical Algorithms Group. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 14 October 2015.
^ "Appointment of two new Non-Executive Directors to the UK Statistics Authority Board". Retrieved 27 May 2020.
^ "University of Oxford". Staff News. University of Oxford. 22 January 2015. Retrieved 13 October 2015.
^ "Oxford e-Research Centre". Oxford e-Research Centre. Archived from the original on 11 September 2015. Retrieved 13 October 2015.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Professor Anne Trefethen". St Cross College. 6 August 2012. Retrieved 13 October 2015.
^ Hey, T; Trefethen, A E (2002). "The UK e-Science Core Programme and the Grid". Future Generation Computer Systems. 18 (8): 1017. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.105.7996. doi:10.1016/S0167-739X(02)00082-1. S2CID 14930437.
^ "50 leaders in engineering elected to Academy Fellowship". Archived from the original on 8 September 2017. Retrieved 12 September 2017.