About Deanna Needell
Professional Information
Professor of Mathematics
Dunn Family Endowed Chair in Data Theory
Executive Director, Institute for Digital Research and Education (IDRE)
Co-Director, Programs, Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS)
Currently on leave at UBC
Department of Mathematics
UCLA
Biography
Deanna Needell earned her PhD from UC Davis before working as a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University. She was a full professor of mathematics at UCLA, the Dunn Family Endowed Chair in Data Theory, and the Executive Director for UCLA's Institute for Digital Research and Education until recently transitioning to the University of British Columbia as a Professor of Mathematics. She is also the Co-Director, Programs, at the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS). She has earned awards including the Alfred P. Sloan fellowship, an NSF CAREER and other awards, the IMA prize in Applied Mathematics, is a 2022 American Mathematical Society (AMS) Fellow and a 2024 Society for industrial and applied mathematics (SIAM) Fellow. She has been a research professor fellow at several top research institutes including the SLMath (formerly MSRI) and Simons Institute in Berkeley. She also serves as associate editor for several journals including Linear Algebra and its Applications, the SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences, and the AMS Bulletin, as well as on the organizing committee for SIAM sessions and the Association for Women in Mathematics.
Contact Information
Email: deanna.needell@gmail.com
Postal: Department of Mathematics
Univ. of California, Los Angeles
520 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095
Office: Mathematical Sciences Building 7620C
Phone: 310-206-9124