Natashia Lesley Boland (born 1967) is a professor of mathematics at Georgia Institute of Technology. Boland completed a PhD at the

University of Western Australia The University of Western Australia (UWA) is a public research university in the Australian state of Western Australia. The university's main campus is in Perth, the state capital, with a secondary campus in Albany and various other facilitie ...

in 1992, and afterwards she pursued postdoctoral research at the

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in Canada, at the Georgia Institute of Technology in the USA. She spent 13 years at the

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and then from 2008 to 2014 worked at the University of Newcastle. She has made contributions to transportation scheduling, modeling of infrastructure networks, planning pricing strategies for demand, and optimization for environmental modeling.

Early life and education

Boland was influenced as a child by construction toys, and demonstrated an early aptitude for mathematics by reading through the entire year's curriculum during a two-week break for illness. She also cites the inspiration of two teachers, Mrs. Martini in second grade and Janet Hunt at Churchlands High School. She also attended a math camp at the National Mathematics Summer School in Canberra. Boland pursued degrees in both mathematics and computer science at the

. She at first hated computer science, but later began to love it as she realized how intertwined mathematics and computers were. For her honours degree, Boland studied robotics. Boland completed her PhD in 1992 under the supervision of Alistair Iain Mees, and took two postdoctoral fellowships at the

in Canada and at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Awards

In 2013, Boland delivered the

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Lecture to honour the achievements of women in mathematics. In 2013, Boland was also awarded a Biennial Medal of the Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Boland, Natashia University of Western Australia alumni Academic staff of the University of Western Australia Academic staff of the University of Newcastle (Australia) Georgia Tech faculty 1967 births Living people 20th-century Australian mathematicians 21st-century Australian mathematicians Australian women mathematicians 20th-century women mathematicians 21st-century women mathematicians 20th-century Australian women