Ilze Brigita Ziedins is a New Zealand statistician whose research concerns the queueing theory of stochastic networks, and the use of this theory to model problems in health care, communications, transportation, and climate change.
Her dissertation, Stochastic Models of Traffic in Star and Line Networks, was supervised by Frank Kelly.
[5] After holding a research fellowship in Girton College, Cambridge and a lecturer position at Heriot-Watt University in England,[6] Ziedins joined the academic staff of Auckland University in 1993.
[3] Ziedins is a Fellow of the New Zealand Mathematical Society.
[7] As a member of Te Pūnaha Matatini, a centre of excellence for complex systems at the University of Auckland coordinating research on the coronavirus pandemic, she is a joint recipient of the 2020 Prime Minister's Science Prizes.