Doctor Jennifer Pestana
Senior Lecturer
Mathematics and Statistics
Personal statement
My primary research interests are numerical linear algebra and its application to problems in scientific computing. Most of my work has focused on understanding the convergence behaviour of Krylov subspace methods for solving linear systems, and on developing preconditioners for specific applications. I have also been involved in projects that apply ideas from tropical algebra to problems in numerical linear algebra, such as pre-scaling matrices before solving linear systems. Current projects include developing fast solvers for problems from fractional diffusion, and analysing problems in broadband signal processing.聽
I have been a lecturer in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics since 2015. Prior to this I held postdoctoral positions at The University of Manchester and the University of Oxford. I obtained my DPhil from the University of Oxford in 2012.
I am a member of SIAM, and am an editor of the SIAM Fundamentals of Algorithms book series. I am also a member of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society, the London Mathematical Society and am a Fellow of the聽Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.聽
My personal webpage can be found .
Prize And Awards
- Recipient
- 2018
Publications
- Delaosa Connor, , ,
- Signal Processing Vol 233 (2025)
- , Silvester David J
- Numerische Mathematik Vol 156, pp. 1579-1602 (2024)
- , , Barbarino Giovanni, , McWhirter John G
- IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing Vol 72, pp. 2260-2275 (2024)
- Neo Vincent W, Redif Soydan, McWhirter John G, , , , Naylor Patrick A
- IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Vol 40, pp. 18-37 (2023)
- Bootland Niall, , Kyriakis Alexandros,
- ETNA - Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis Vol 55, pp. 112-141 (2021)
- Mazza M,
- SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications Vol 42, pp. 1319-1336 (2021)
Professional Activities
- Organiser
- 2025
- Speaker
- 15/11/2024
- Organiser
- 27/8/2023
- Organiser
- 27/6/2023
- Member of programme committee
- 12/6/2023
- Visiting researcher
- 26/5/2023
Projects
- Pestana, Jennifer (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2026
- Pestana, Jennifer (Principal Investigator) Dolean Maini, Victorita (Co-investigator) Paterson, Ann (Post Grad Student) Rahimi, Salaheddin (Co-investigator)
- PhD Studentship Cluster with TU Delft
- 01-Jan-2022 - 30-Jan-2025
- Pestana, Jennifer (Co-investigator) Brown, Blair David (Principal Investigator)
- EPSRC Vacation Internship for Zara Blair
- 14-Jan-2022 - 22-Jan-2022
- Pestana, Jennifer (Principal Investigator) Barrenechea, Gabriel (CoPI) Soodhalter, Kirk (CoPI)
- 17-Jan-2022 - 30-Jan-2022
- Dolean Maini, Victorita (Principal Investigator) Rahimi, Salaheddin (Research Co-investigator) Pestana, Jennifer (Co-investigator) Ritos, Konstantinos (Co-investigator) Kamenick媒, Robin (Co-investigator) Tant, Katherine Margaret Mary (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2021 - 30-Jan-2022
- Knight, Philip (Principal Investigator) Pestana, Jennifer (Co-investigator) Podmore, Sam (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2021 - 01-Jan-2025
Contact
Doctor
Jennifer
Pestana
Senior Lecturer
Mathematics and Statistics
Email: jennifer.pestana@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 3804