American mathematician
Julia Elisenda (Eli ) Grigsby is an American mathematician who works as a professor at Boston College .[1] Her research began with the study of low-dimensional topology , including knot theory and category-theoretic knot invariants .[2] [3] She is currently working in the field of machine learning.
Education and career
Grigsby earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Harvard University in 1999,[1] [2] after earlier forays into biochemistry and physics. After a year working as an operations researcher in Silicon Valley , she returned to graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley ,[3] and completed her doctorate in 2005 under the joint supervision of Robion Kirby and Peter Ozsváth .[1] [2] [4]
She was a postdoctoral researcher at Columbia University and the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute , and joined the Boston College faculty in 2009.[1]
Service
Grigsby belongs to the advisory board of Girls' Angle, a non-profit organization for encouraging girls to participate in mathematics,[1] [5] and is responsible for creating a sequence of video lectures by women in mathematics for Girls' Angle.[5]
Recognition
In 2014 she became the inaugural winner of the Joan & Joseph Birman Research Prize in Topology and Geometry , given biennially by the Association for Women in Mathematics to an outstanding early-career female researcher in topology and geometry.[2]
References
^ a b c d e Curriculum vitae Archived 2019-04-30 at the Wayback Machine , retrieved 2017-06-07.
^ a b c d J. Elisenda Grigsby wins the inaugural AWM Joan & Joseph Birman Research Prize in Topology and Geometry (PDF) , Association for Women in Mathematics , May 19, 2014 ; Eli Grigsby , AWM, retrieved 2019-01-26.
^ a b Díaz-Lopez, Alexander (March 2016), "Elisenda Grigsby Interview" (PDF) , Notices of the American Mathematical Society , 63 (3): 282–284, doi :10.1090/noti1374
^ Elisenda Grigsby at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
^ a b Girls' Angle Leadership and About Girls' Angle , retrieved 2017-06-07.
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