Rekha Rachel Thomas is a mathematician and operations researcher.
Her research interests include mathematical optimization and computational algebra.
[1] Thomas earned a PhD in operations research from Cornell University in 1994, supervised by Bernd Sturmfels; her dissertation concerned Gröbner bases and integer programming.
[4] She was a plenary speaker at the 21st International Symposium on Mathematical Programming in 2012.
[3] In 2013 she became one of the inaugural fellows of the American Mathematical Society.