Vanessa Robins is an Australian applied mathematician whose research interests include

computational topology Algorithmic topology, or computational topology, is a subfield of topology with an overlap with areas of computer science, in particular, computational geometry and computational complexity theory. A primary concern of algorithmic topology, as its ...

image processing An image or picture is a visual representation. An image can be two-dimensional, such as a drawing, painting, or photograph, or three-dimensional, such as a carving or sculpture. Images may be displayed through other media, including a pr ...

, and the structure of

granular material A granular material is a conglomeration of discrete solid, macroscopic scale, macroscopic particles characterized by a loss of energy whenever the particles interact (the most common example would be friction when granulation, grains collide). T ...

s. She is a fellow in the departments of applied mathematics and theoretical physics at

Australian National University The Australian National University (ANU) is a public university, public research university and member of the Group of Eight (Australian universities), Group of Eight, located in Canberra, the capital of Australia. Its main campus in Acton, A ...

, where she was ARC Future Fellow from 2014 to 2019.

Education

Robins earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics at Australian National University in 1994. She completed a PhD at the

University of Colorado Boulder The University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder, CU, or Colorado) is a public research university in Boulder, Colorado, United States. Founded in 1876, five months before Colorado became a state, it is the flagship university of the University o ...

in 2000. Her dissertation, ''Computational Topology at Multiple Resolutions: Foundations and Applications to Fractals and Dynamics'', was jointly supervised by James D. Meiss and Elizabeth Bradley.

Contributions

One of Robins's publications, from 1999, is one of the three works that independently introduced

persistent homology In topological data analysis, persistent homology is a method for computing topological features of a space at different spatial resolutions. More persistent features are detected over a wide range of spatial scales and are deemed more likely to ...

topological data analysis In applied mathematics, topological data analysis (TDA) is an approach to the analysis of datasets using techniques from topology. Extraction of information from datasets that are high-dimensional, incomplete and noisy is generally challenging. TDA ...

. As well as working on mathematical research, she has collaborated with artist Julie Brooke, of the Australian National University School of Art & Design, on the mathematical visualization of topological surfaces.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Robins, Vanessa Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Australian mathematicians Australian women mathematicians Australian National University alumni University of Colorado Boulder alumni