Deanna Needell is an American

applied mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change. History One ...

at the

University of California, Los Angeles The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California St ...

. She authors ''The Needell in the Haystack'', a column published in the Girls' Angle Bulletin.

Education

Deanna Needell received her PhD in mathematics from the

University of California, Davis The University of California, Davis (UC Davis, UCD, or Davis) is a public land-grant research university near Davis, California. Named a Public Ivy, it is the northernmost of the ten campuses of the University of California system. The institut ...

in 2009. Her dissertation title was ''Topics in Compressed Sensing''.

Awards and honours

Rachel Ward Rachel Claire Ward (born 12 September 1957) is an English-Australian

and Deanna Needell received the IMA Prize in Mathematics and Applications in 2016. The award recognized their theoretical work related to medical sensing and

MRIs Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a medical imaging technique used in radiology to form pictures of the anatomy and the physiological processes of the body. MRI scanners use strong magnetic fields, magnetic field gradients, and radio wa ...

, with Needell recognized in particular for her contributions to sparse approximation, signal processing, and stochastic optimization. She was named a Fellow of the

American Mathematical Society The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and scholarship, and serves the national and international community through its publications, meetings, ...

, in the 2022 class of fellows, "for contributions to compressed sensing and the mathematics of data".

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* American women mathematicians Living people Year of birth missing (living people) University of California, Davis alumni Fellows of the American Mathematical Society 21st-century American women {{US-mathematician-stub