Jill P. Mesirov

Jill P. Mesirov is an American mathematician, computer scientist, and computational biologist who works as the associate director and chief informatics officer at the Eli and Edythe L. Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. She also holds an adjunct faculty position at Boston University. Her research concerns high-performance computing.[1]

Mesirov did her undergraduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania,[1] and earned a doctorate in mathematics from Brandeis University in 1974, under the supervision of Richard Palais.[2] She has worked at the University of California, Berkeley, the American Mathematical Society, Thinking Machines Corporation, and IBM before joining the Whitehead Institute of MIT in 1997, which eventually became part of the Broad Institute.[1] She was president of the Association for Women in Mathematics from 1989 to 1991.[3]

Mesirov became a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1996.[4] In 2012, she became a fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology,[5] and one of the inaugural fellows of the American Mathematical Society.[6]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Profile, Broad Institute, retrieved 2015-02-22.
  2. ↑ Jill P. Mesirov at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ↑ Taylor, Jean E.; Wiegand, Sylvia M. (1999), "AWM in the 1990s: a recent history of the Association for Women in Mathematics", Notices of the American Mathematical Society 46 (1): 27–38, MR 1658878.
  4. ↑ "AAAS Fellows Elected", Mathematics People, Notices of the American Mathematical Society 43 (4), April 1996: 451.
  5. ↑ People in the News: Bonnie Berger, Peter Karp, Jill Mesirov, Pavel Pevzner, Ron Shamir, Martin Vingron, genomeweb, July 13, 2012, retrieved 2015-02-22.
  6. ↑ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2015-02-22.