Linda Petzold

Linda Ruth Petzold
Linda Petzold at MFO, 2006
Born	1954
Alma mater	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Awards	J. H. Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software (1991), ACM Fellow (2011), SIAM/ACM Prize in Computational Science and Engineering (2013)
Scientific career
Fields	Computer science, Mechanical engineering
Institutions	University of California, Santa Barbara
Thesis	An Efficient Numerical Method for Highly Oscillatory Ordinary Differential Equations  (1978)
Doctoral advisor	Charles William Gear

Linda Ruth Petzold (born 1954)^[1] is a professor of computer science and mechanical engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she is also listed as affiliated faculty in the department of mathematics. Her research concerns differential algebraic equations and the computer simulation of large real-world social and biological networks.^[2]