Vanessa Robins is an Australian applied mathematician whose research interests include

computational topology Algorithmic topology, or computational topology, is a subfield of topology with an overlap with areas of computer science, in particular, computational geometry and computational complexity theory. A primary concern of algorithmic topology, as its ...

image processing An image is a visual representation of something. It can be two-dimensional, three-dimensional, or somehow otherwise feed into the visual system to convey information. An image can be an artifact, such as a photograph or other two-dimensiona ...

, and the structure of

granular material A granular material is a conglomeration of discrete solid, macroscopic particles characterized by a loss of energy whenever the particles interact (the most common example would be friction when grains collide). The constituents that compose gra ...

s. She is a fellow in the departments of applied mathematics and theoretical physics at

Australian National University The Australian National University (ANU) is a public research university located in Canberra, the capital of Australia. Its main campus in Acton encompasses seven teaching and research colleges, in addition to several national academies and ...

, where she was ARC Future Fellow from 2014 to 2019.

Education

Robins earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics at Australian National University in 1994. She completed a PhD at the

University of Colorado Boulder The University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder, CU, or Colorado) is a public research university in Boulder, Colorado. Founded in 1876, five months before Colorado became a state, it is the flagship university of the University of Colorado syst ...

in 2000. Her dissertation, ''Computational Topology at Multiple Resolutions: Foundations and Applications to Fractals and Dynamics'', was jointly supervised by James D. Meiss and Elizabeth Bradley.

Contributions

One of Robins's publications, from 1999, is one of the three works that independently introduced

persistent homology :''See homology for an introduction to the notation.'' Persistent homology is a method for computing topological features of a space at different spatial resolutions. More persistent features are detected over a wide range of spatial scales and a ...

topological data analysis In applied mathematics, topological based data analysis (TDA) is an approach to the analysis of datasets using techniques from topology. Extraction of information from datasets that are high-dimensional, incomplete and noisy is generally challengin ...

. As well as working on mathematical research, she has collaborated with artist Julie Brooke, of the Australian National University School of Art & Design, on the mathematical visualization of topological surfaces.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Robins, Vanessa Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Australian mathematicians Australian women mathematicians Australian National University alumni University of Colorado Boulder alumni