Anne Elizabeth Trefethen

FREng Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng) is an award and fellowship for engineers who are recognised by the Royal Academy of Engineering as being the best and brightest engineers, inventors and technologists in the UK and from arou ...

is Pro Vice-Chancellor (People & Digital), and professor of Scientific Computing at the

University of Oxford The University of Oxford is a collegiate university, collegiate research university in Oxford, England. There is evidence of teaching as early as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the List of oldest un ...

. She is a fellow of

St Cross College St Cross College, known colloquially as StX, is a Colleges of the University of Oxford, constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. Founded in 1965, St Cross is a graduate college with gothic and traditional-style buildings on ...

. Her work in industry and academia focuses on numerical algorithms and software,

computational science Computational science, also known as scientific computing, technical computing or scientific computation (SC), is a division of science, and more specifically the Computer Sciences, which uses advanced computing capabilities to understand and s ...

and

high-performance computing High-performance computing (HPC) is the use of supercomputers and computer clusters to solve advanced computation problems. Overview HPC integrates systems administration (including network and security knowledge) and parallel programming into ...

. On 1 June 2018, Trefethen joined the

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of the

UK Statistics Authority The UK Statistics Authority (UKSA, ) is a non-ministerial government department of the Government of the United Kingdom responsible for oversight of the Office for National Statistics, maintaining a national code of practice for official statist ...

as a non-executive director.

Research and career

Trefethen was appointed Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Academic Services and University Collections) at the University of Oxford in January 2015, and was 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). and Co-Director of the Institute for the Future of Computing, part of the James Martin 21st Century School. 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 E-Science or eScience is computationally intensive science that is carried out in highly distributed network environments, or science that uses immense data sets that require grid computing; the term sometimes includes technologies that enable dis ...

and

Grid computing Grid computing is the use of widely distributed computer resources to reach a common goal. A computing grid can be thought of as a distributed system with non-interactive workloads that involve many files. Grid computing is distinguished fro ...

through the development of

middleware Middleware is a type of computer software program that provides services to software applications beyond those available from the operating system. It can be described as "software glue". Middleware makes it easier for software developers to imple ...

and infrastructure. From 1997 - 2001 she was Vice-President for Research and Development at

Numerical Algorithms Group The NAG Numerical Library is a commercial software product developed and sold by The Numerical Algorithms Group Ltd. It is a software library of numerical-analysis routines, containing more than 1,900 mathematical and statistical algorithms. Are ...

(NAG) Ltd. Trefethen spent 1988 - 1997 in the US at

Thinking Machines Corporation Thinking Machines Corporation was a supercomputer manufacturer and artificial intelligence (AI) company, founded in Waltham, Massachusetts, in 1983 by Sheryl Handler and Danny Hillis, W. Daniel "Danny" Hillis to turn Hillis's doctoral work at th ...

and was Associate Director for Scientific Computational Support at the

Cornell Theory Center The Cornell University Center for Advanced Computing (CAC), housed at Frank H. T. Rhodes Hall on the campus of Cornell University, is one of five original centers in the National Science Foundation's Supercomputer Centers Program. It was formerl ...

. In 2017 she was elected a Fellow of the

Royal Academy of Engineering The Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) is the United Kingdom's national academy of engineering. The Academy was founded in June 1976 as the Fellowship of Engineering with support from Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, who became the first senio ...

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.

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