Anna Gilbert, Ph.D.

Anna Gilbert received an S.B. degree from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. from Princeton University, both in mathematics. In 1997, she was a postdoctoral fellow at Yale University and AT&T Labs-Research. From 1998 to 2004, she was a member of technical staff at AT&T Labs-Research. From 2004 to 2020, she was with the Department of Mathematics, with a secondary appointment in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, at the University of Michigan, where she was eventually appointed the Herman H. Goldstine Collegiate Professor. In 2020, she moved to Yale University to be the John C. Malone Professor of Mathematics and Professor of Statistics and Data Science. Gilbert’s research interests include analysis, probability and algorithms. She is especially interested in algorithms with applications to harmonic analysis, signal and image processing and machine learning.