CORALIA CARTIS
Coralia Cartis is Professor of Numerical Optimization at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford and Turing Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute for Data Science. She received a BSc degree in mathematics from Babesh-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, and a PhD degree in mathematics from the University of Cambridge, under the supervision of Prof Michael J.D. Powell. Prior to her current post, she worked as a research scientist at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and as a tenured assistant professor in the School of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh. Her research interests include the development and analysis of nonlinear optimization algorithms and diverse applications of optimization from climate modeling to signal processing and machine learning. She serves on the editorial boards of leading optimization and numerical analysis journals and was awarded some prizes for her research.