Irene M. Gamba

She works as a professor of mathematics at the University of Texas at Austin, where she holds the W.A.

Chair in Computational Engineering and Sciences and is head of the Applied Mathematics Group in the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences.

She went to the University of Chicago for her graduate studies, earning a master's degree in 1985 and a Ph.D. in 1989, under the supervision of Jim Douglas, Jr.[2][3] After postdoctoral studies at Purdue University and the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University, she became an Assistant Professor at NYU in 1994 and Associate Professor in 1996.

Chair in Computational Sciences and Engineering III since 2014.

[2][4] The Association for Women in Mathematics selected her as their 2014 Sonia Kovalevsky Lecturer.