Biography

Misha Kilmer is the William Walker Professor of Mathematics at Tufts University and is concurrently serving as Deputy Director of the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics Brown University.  In 2019, Prof. Kilmer was named a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) “for her fundamental contributions to numerical linear algebra and scientific computing, including ill-posed problems, tensor decompositions, and iterative methods.”    She served as a Section Editor for SIAM Review, SIAM’s flagship journal, for five years.   Prof. Kilmer had the honor of being a Kirk Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences at Cambridge University in Spring 2023.  She is an inaugural member of the Tufts Chapter of the National Academy of Inventors, the 2023 recipient of the Tufts Faculty Distinguished Scholar Award, and earned the unique distinction of being promoted directly from Assistant to Full Professor at Tufts in 2005.   

News

Check out this https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/2025-february-prize-spotlight/#Avron-et-al story about our SIAM CSE Best Paper Prize.

Contact Information

email:   misha dot kilmer at tufts dot edu
Tufts University
Joyce Cummings Center, Rm 520g 
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Medford, MA 02155
Office: 617-627-2005
Fax: 617-627-3966