# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/margaret-h-wright
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:59:43.038Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/margaret-h-wright"
name: "Margaret H. Wright"
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description: "Margaret H. Wright is an American computer scientist and mathematician. She is a Silver Professor of Computer Science and former chair of the Computer Science department at Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, with research interests in optimization, linear algebra, and scientific computing. She was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1997 for development of numerical optimization algorithms and for leadership in the applied mathematics community. She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2005. She was the first woman to serve as President of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics."
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birthDate: "1944-02-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump