Jill P. Mesirov
{{short description|American mathematician}}
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| workplaces = University of California, San Diego
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| alma_mater = University of Pennsylvania (BA)
Brandeis University (PhD)
| thesis_title = Perturbation theory for the existence of critical points in the calculus of variations
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| thesis_year = 1974
| doctoral_advisor = Richard Palais
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Jill P. Mesirov is an American mathematician, computer scientist, and computational biologist who is the Associate Vice Chancellor for Computational Health Sciences at the University of California, San Diego. She previously held an adjunct faculty position at Boston University and was the associate director and chief informatics officer at the Eli and Edythe L. Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.
Education
Mesirov did her undergraduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania, and earned a doctorate in mathematics from Brandeis University in 1974, under the supervision of Richard Palais.{{mathgenealogy|id=35870}}
Research and career
Her research concerns high-performance computing.[https://www.broadinstitute.org/about/bios/bio-mesirov.html Profile], Broad Institute, retrieved 2015-02-22. Effective July 1, 2015, she has been appointed Associate Vice Chancellor for Computational Health Sciences and Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center.{{cite web|url=http://health.ucsd.edu/news/releases/Pages/2015-06-24-mesirov-assoc-vice-chancellor-computational-health.aspx|title=UCSD School of Medicine retrieved 2015-06-26}}
She has worked at the University of California, Berkeley, the American Mathematical Society, Thinking Machines Corporation, and IBM before joining the Whitehead Institute of MIT in 1997, which eventually became part of the Broad Institute. She was president of the Association for Women in Mathematics from 1989 to 1991.{{citation
| last1 = Taylor | first1 = Jean E.
| last2 = Wiegand | first2 = Sylvia M.
| issue = 1
| journal = Notices of the American Mathematical Society
| mr = 1658878
| pages = 27–38
| title = AWM in the 1990s: a recent history of the Association for Women in Mathematics
| url = https://www.ams.org/notices/199901/awm.pdf
| volume = 46
| year = 1999}}. She served on the Board of Trustees for the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM) from 2017 to 2021.https://icerm.brown.edu/about/nsf/reports/2020-2021-Annual-Report.pdf ICERM Annual Report May 1, 2020 – April 30, 2021
Awards and honors
Mesirov became a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1996.{{citation|title=AAAS Fellows Elected|department=Mathematics People|journal=Notices of the American Mathematical Society|page=451|date=April 1996|volume=43|issue=4|url=https://www.ams.org/notices/199604/people.pdf}}. In 2012, she was elected an ISCB Fellow by the International Society for Computational Biology in 2012,{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170320114530/https://www.iscb.org/iscb-fellows |archive-date=2017-03-20 |url=https://www.iscb.org/iscb-fellows |website=iscb.org |title=ISCB Fellows |publisher=International Society for Computational Biology |author=Anon |year=2017 |url-status=dead }}[https://www.genomeweb.com/informatics/people-news-bonnie-berger-peter-karp-jill-mesirov-pavel-pevzner-ron-shamir-marti People in the News: Bonnie Berger, Peter Karp, Jill Mesirov, Pavel Pevzner, Ron Shamir, Martin Vingron], genomeweb, July 13, 2012, retrieved 2015-02-22. and one of the inaugural fellows of the American Mathematical Society.[https://www.ams.org/profession/fellows-list List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society], retrieved 2015-02-22. In 2017, she was selected as a fellow of the Association for Women in Mathematics in the inaugural class.{{cite web|url=https://awm-math.org/awards/awm-fellows/2018-awm-fellows|title=2018 Inaugural Class of AWM Fellows Program|publisher=Association for Women in Mathematics|access-date=9 January 2021}}
Publications
- (co-ed.) Mathematical Approaches to Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics. The IMA Volumes in Mathematics and its Applications, avec Klaus Schulten et De Witt Sumners, Springer, 254p. {{ISBN|1461284856}}
- (coll.) Research in Computational Molecular Biology, 9th Annual International Conference, RECOMB 2005, Cambridge, MA, USA, May 14–18, 2005, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), Springer, 632p. {{ISBN|3540258663}}
- Very Large Scale Computing in the 21st Century, Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics, 1991, 345p. {{ISBN|0898712793}}
References
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