Anne Elizabeth Trefethen FREng is Pro Vice-Chancellor (People & Gardens, Library and Museums), and professor of Scientific Computing at the

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

. She is a fellow of

St Cross College St Cross College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. Founded in 1965, St Cross is an all-graduate college with gothic and traditional-style buildings on a central site in St Giles', just south of Pusey Street. It a ...

. Her work in industry and academia focuses on

numerical algorithms Numerical may refer to: * Number * Numerical digit * Numerical analysis Numerical analysis is the study of algorithms that use numerical approximation (as opposed to symbolic manipulations) for the problems of mathematical analysis (as distin ...

and software,

computational science Computational science, also known as scientific computing or scientific computation (SC), is a field in mathematics that uses advanced computing capabilities to understand and solve complex problems. It is an area of science that spans many disc ...

and

high-performance computing High-performance computing (HPC) uses supercomputers and computer clusters to solve advanced computation problems. Overview HPC integrates systems administration (including network and security knowledge) and parallel programming into a mult ...

. On 1 June 2018, Trefethen joined the

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of the UK Statistics Authority as a non-executive director.

Research and career

Trefethen was appointed Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Academic Services and University Collections) at the University of Oxford in January 2015, and is responsible for overseeing the University's libraries, museums and collections and its language teaching services. She was appointed the University's first chief information officer in March 2012 until October 2017, prior to which she served as Director of the

Oxford e-Research Centre The Oxford e-Research Centre (OeRC) is part of the Department of Engineering Science within the University of Oxford in England and is a multidisciplinary Data science research and education institute. The Centre was founded in 2006, and its wo ...

(2006–2012). and Co-Director of the Institute for the Future of Computing, part of the

James Martin 21st Century School The Oxford Martin School is a research and policy unit based in the Social Sciences Division of the University of Oxford. It was founded in June 2005 as the James Martin 21st Century School and is located in the original building of the Indian I ...

. Before coming to Oxford in 2005, Trefethen was Deputy Director and then Director of the UK e-Science Core Programme that addressed broad issues in e-Science and

Grid computing Grid computing is the use of widely distributed computer resources to reach a common goal. A computing grid can be thought of as a distributed system with non-interactive workloads that involve many files. Grid computing is distinguished from co ...

through the development of

middleware Middleware is a type of computer software that provides services to software applications beyond those available from the operating system. It can be described as "software glue". Middleware makes it easier for software developers to implement co ...

and infrastructure. From 1997 - 2001 she was Vice-President for Research and Development at

Numerical Algorithms Group The NAG Numerical Library is a software product developed and sold by The Numerical Algorithms Group Ltd. It is a software library of numerical analysis routines, containing more than 1,900 mathematical and statistical algorithms. Areas covered by ...

(NAG) Ltd. Trefethen spent 1988 - 1997 in the US at Thinking Machines Corporation and was Associate Director for Scientific Computational Support at the

Cornell Theory Center The Cornell University Center for Advanced Computing (CAC), housed at Frank H. T. Rhodes Hall on the campus of Cornell University, is one of five original centers in the National Science Foundation's Supercomputer Centers Program. It was formerl ...

. In 2017 she was elected a Fellow of the

Royal Academy of Engineering The Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) is the United Kingdom's national academy of engineering. The Academy was founded in June 1976 as the Fellowship of Engineering with support from Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, who became the first senior ...

Publications

* Sansone, Susanna-Assunta, et al. "Toward interoperable bioscience data." ''Nature genetics'' 44.2 (2012): 121–126. * Hey, Tony, and Anne E. Trefethen. "Cyberinfrastructure for e-Science." ''Science'' 308.5723 (2005): 817–821. * Hey, Anthony JG, and Anne E. Trefethen. "The data deluge: An e-science perspective." (2003): 809–824. * Hey, Tony, and Anne Trefethen. "e-Science and its implications." ''Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences'' 361.1809 (2003): 1809–1825. * Hey, Tony, and Anne E. Trefethen. "The UK e-science core programme and the grid." ''Future Generation Computer Systems'' 18.8 (2002): 1017–1031.

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