Coralia Cartis is a Romanian mathematician at the

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whose research interests include

compressed sensing Compressed sensing (also known as compressive sensing, compressive sampling, or sparse sampling) is a signal processing technique for efficiently acquiring and reconstructing a Signal (electronics), signal by finding solutions to Underdetermined s ...

numerical analysis Numerical analysis is the study of algorithms that use numerical approximation (as opposed to symbolic computation, symbolic manipulations) for the problems of mathematical analysis (as distinguished from discrete mathematics). It is the study of ...

, and regularisation methods in

mathematical optimization Mathematical optimization (alternatively spelled ''optimisation'') or mathematical programming is the selection of a best element, with regard to some criteria, from some set of available alternatives. It is generally divided into two subfiel ...

. At Oxford, she is a Professor in Numerical Optimization in the Mathematical Institute, and a tutorial fellow of

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Education and career

Born in

Cluj-Napoca Cluj-Napoca ( ; ), or simply Cluj ( , ), is a city in northwestern Romania. It is the second-most populous city in the country and the seat of Cluj County. Geographically, it is roughly equidistant from Bucharest (), Budapest () and Belgrade ( ...

Romania Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern and Southeast Europe. It borders Ukraine to the north and east, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Bulgaria to the south, Moldova to ...

, Cartis earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from

Babeș-Bolyai University The Babeș-Bolyai University ( , , commonly known as UBB) is a public research university located in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Established in 1581 as Academia Claudiopolitana, it underwent several reorganizations over the centuries, eventually taking ...

, and completed her PhD in 2005 at the

University of Cambridge The University of Cambridge is a Public university, public collegiate university, collegiate research university in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1209, the University of Cambridge is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation, wo ...

. Her dissertation, ''On Interior Point Methods for Linear Programming'', was supervised by Michael J. D. Powell. In the same year, she was one of the Second Prize winners of the

Leslie Fox Prize for Numerical Analysis The Leslie Fox Prize for Numerical Analysis of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) is a biennial prize established in 1985 by the IMA in honour of mathematician Leslie Fox (1918-1992). The prize honours "young numerical analysts ...

. After working as a researcher at the

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and a postdoctoral researcher at Oxford, she became a lecturer at the

University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh (, ; abbreviated as ''Edin.'' in Post-nominal letters, post-nominals) is a Public university, public research university based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Founded by the City of Edinburgh Council, town council under th ...

in 2007. She took her present position at Oxford in 2013. In 2018 she became a member of the scientific board of the Smith Institute for Industrial Mathematics and System Engineering, and was a plenary speaker at the 16th EUROPT Workshop on Advances in Continuous Optimization in Spain. Cartis was elected to the 2023 Class of

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Fellows.

Selected bibliography

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Cartis, Coralia Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Scientists from Cluj-Napoca 21st-century Romanian mathematicians Romanian women mathematicians Babeș-Bolyai University alumni Alumni of the University of Cambridge Academics of the University of Edinburgh Academics of the University of Oxford Numerical analysts Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics