North Carolina University

Tamara G. Kolda’s career began at the dawn of the internet, in the pre-Google era. Since then, she has worked at the intersection of mathematics, computing, and data. She was awarded the Alston S. Householder Postdoctoral Fellow in Scientific Computing at Oak Ridge National Labs in Tennessee after completing her doctorate and worked for two decades at Sandia National Labs in California. She has benefitted from the advice and guidance of many statisticians along the way and finds the community to be highly collegial. She helped launch and serves as founding editor-in-chief of the SIAM Journal on Mathematics of Data Science, an academic journal focused on the mathematical and statistical foundations of data science methods.