Alex Townsend

Alex Townsend is an associate professor of mathematics at Cornell University and a leading researcher in numerical linear algebra, scientific computing, and scientific artificial intelligence. He has received major international prizes in numerical analysis and linear algebra, including the Leslie Fox Prize and SIAM awards in both Linear Algebra and Computational Science and Engineering. An award-winning teacher, he is a recipient of Cornell University’s Stephen H. Weiss Junior Fellowship for excellence in undergraduate teaching. He lives in Ithaca, New York.