Education

• Carnegie-Mellon University, B.S. (Mathematics), 1971

• Carnegie-Mellon University, Ph.D. (Computer Science), 1977

  • Thesis title: Direct and Iterative Methods for Block Tridiagonal Linear Systems
  • Thesis advisor: Prof. J.F. Traub
  • Summary: numerical analysis of cyclic reduction methods, shown to exhibit quadratic convergence, with application to vector computers