Presenter

Laura Grigori is a senior research scientist at INRIA in France, where she leads the Alpines group, a joint group between INRIA and the J.L. Lions Laboratory, Sorbonne University, in Paris. She leads several projects on preconditioning, communication avoiding algorithms and associated numerical libraries for large scale parallel/multicore machines. After postdoctoral research at the University of California, Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, she became a researcher for INRIA in 2004, and became the head of the Alpines project in 2013. In 2020 Grigori was named a SIAM Fellow "for contributions to numerical linear algebra, including communication-avoiding algorithms". In 2021, she joined the SIAM Council as a Member-at-Large.