Dr. Woodward’s research interests include numerical methods for nonlinear partial differential equations, time integration methods, numerical software development, and high performance computing. She leads the development and deployment of the SUNDIALS package of time integrators and nonlinear solvers for which Dr. Woodward was a co-winner of the ACM/SIAM Prize in Computational Science in 2023.
Dr. Woodward was inducted as a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in 2017 and a Fellow of the Association for Women in Mathematics in 2021. She serves as President of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in 2025-2026.
Dr. Woodward she received a PhD from Rice University in Computational and Applied Mathematics and a B.S. degree from Louisiana State University in Mathematics.
This page was updated in February 2025.
