Victoria E. Howle is an American applied mathematician specializing in numerical linear algebra and known as one of the developers of the Trilinos open-source software library for scientific computing.
Her dissertation, Efficient Iterative Methods for Ill-Conditioned Linear and Nonlinear Network Problems, was supervised by Stephen Vavasis.
[2] After working as a researcher at Sandia National Laboratories from 2000 to 2007, she took a faculty position at Texas Tech in 2007.
[1] Howle was one of the inaugural winners of the AWM Service Award of the Association for Women in Mathematics, in 2013.
[3][4] The award honored her service to the association, including founding its annual essay contest in which students write biographies of women mathematicians.