Biography:Irina Tezaur
Irina Tezaur | |
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 Irina Tezaur delivering an invited plenary lecture at CILAMCE 2025, held in Vitoria, Brazil in November 2025.[1] | |
| Born | c. 1984 Moscow, Russia |
| Alma mater | Stanford University University of Pennsylvania |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Applied mathematics Computational science Model order reduction Finite element discretizations High-performance computing Computational fluid dynamics Computational mechanics Multiscale coupling Earth system modeling Ice sheet modeling |
| Institutions | Sandia National Laboratories |
| Thesis | The Discontinuous Enrichment Method for Multi-Scale Transport Problems (2011) |
| Doctoral advisor | Charbel Farhat |
Irina Kalashnikova Tezaur (born c. 1984, also published as Irina Kalashnikova) is an American applied mathematician and a distinguished member of the technical staff at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, California.[4] During her career, she has made research contributions to several areas, including high-order discontinuous Galerkin methods, model order reduction, multiscale modeling, computational fluid dynamics of compressible flow, Earth system modeling, and concurrent multiscale coupling via the Schwarz alternating method[5].[6]
Education and career
Tezaur emigrated from Moscow, Russia to the United States with her parents, a computer scientist and a physicist, in 1992. Initially, they lived in Oak Park, Michigan,[6] later moving to nearby West Bloomfield.[3] She attended Cranbrook Kingswood Upper School, graduating in 2002.[7] Tezaur majored in mathematics and minored in actuarial science at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in 2006 with both a bachelor's and master's degree. She went to Stanford University for continued study in computational and mathematical engineering, and completed her Ph.D. in 2011 under the supervision of Charbel Farhat.[8] Her Ph.D. dissertation is entitled "The Discontinuous Enrichment Method for Multi-Scale Transport Problems".[4]
Tezaur's graduate studies also included work as a year-round technical intern at Sandia, in its Aerosciences Department, and, when she finished her Ph.D., she became a senior member of the technical staff in Sandia's Computational Mathematics Department. She was promoted to principal member in 2015 and distinguished member in 2021.[8]
Recognition
In 2008, Tezaur was awarded the Robert J. Melosh Medal in Finite Element Analysis for her Ph.D. research involving the discontinuous enrichment method.[2] Tezaur is a 2019 recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, honored "for developing new, impactful mathematical methods and computer algorithms to enable real-time analysis, control and decision-making on computationally prohibitive problems relevant to the nuclear security mission and climate modeling".[3] Tezaur has delivered invited plenary lectures at several international conferences, including the 2024 European Seminar on COmputing (ESCO), held in Pilsen, Czech Republic, and the 46th Ibero-Latin American Congress on Computational Methods in Engineering (CILAMCE 2025), held in Vitoria, Brazil.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Irina Tezaur Staff Website, Sandia National Laboratories, https://www.sandia.gov/~ikalash, retrieved 2026-04-29
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Irina Kalashnikova Winner and Ajay Rajasekharan Finalist of the 20th Annual Melosh Medal Competition, Stanford University, https://web.stanford.edu/group/frg/in_the_news/melosh.html, retrieved 2026-04-29
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Singer, Neal (August 1, 2019), "Four Sandia researchers win Presidential Early Career Award", Sandia Lab News (Sandia National Laboratories), https://www.sandia.gov/labnews/2019/08/01/pecase-2/, retrieved 2026-03-18
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Selected Mathematics, Computing & Information Science Experts, Sandia National Laboratories, https://www.sandia.gov/research/experts/mathematics-computing-and-information-science-experts/, retrieved 2026-03-18
- ↑ Langley, Michael Ellis (August 29, 2019), "Getting to the nuts and bolts of nuts and bolts", Sandia Lab News (Sandia National Laboratories), https://www.sandia.gov/labnews/2019/08/29/computer-modeling/, retrieved 2026-03-18
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Garberson, Jeff (October 3, 2019), "From Moscow to Livermore: A Sandia Computer Scientist Tells of Her Compelling Journey", The Independent, https://www.independentnews.com/news/from-moscow-to-livermore-a-sandia-computer-scientist-tells-of-her-compelling-journey/article_7605c5ae-e580-11e9-9106-efd0e911cddd.html, retrieved 2026-03-18
- ↑ Cranbrook Kingswood Distinguished Alumni: Irina Kalashnikova Tezaur, Cranbrook Schools, https://schools.cranbrook.edu/list-detail?pk=252537, retrieved 2026-04-29
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Curriculum vitae, Sandia National Laboratories, March 2026, https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/127/2026/03/CV_Tezaur_General.pdf, retrieved 2026-03-18
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