Anna Catherine Gilbert (born 1972)[1] is an American mathematician who works as the John C. Malone Professor of Statistics & Data Science, Applied Mathematics, and Electrical Engineering at Yale University.
[3][4] After postdoctoral research at Yale University, she joined AT&T Labs, and continued there as a staff member until 2004, when she moved to Michigan.
[3] Gilbert's research discoveries have included the existence of multifractal behavior in TCP-based internet traffic,[5] the development of streaming algorithms based on random projections for aggregating information from large data streams using very small amounts of working memory,[6] and a foundational analysis of the ability of orthogonal matching pursuit to recover sparse signals with her student Joel Tropp.
[8] She was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2014, speaking on "Mathematics in Science and Technology".
[9] She gave the von Neumann Lecture at the 2022 Joint Mathematics Meeting, titled "Metric representations: Algorithms and Geometry.