Sigal Gottlieb

Dr. Sigal Gottlieb is Chancellor Professor of Mathematics at UMass Dartmouth and founding director of the Center for Scientific Computing and Data Science Research. A Harvard Business School PLDA graduate and computational mathematics expert, her research develops high-order numerical methods for simulating hyperbolic PDEs with applications in gravitational wave physics.

Research Focus: Specializes in strong stability preserving (SSP) time discretizations, WENO/spectral methods for discontinuous problems, and GPU-accelerated algorithms for computational relativity. Current NSF-funded projects include developing efficient black hole spectroscopy techniques.

Leadership: Established UMass Dartmouth's computational science research hub and developed new academic programs including the Data Science BS/MS degrees. Recognized as SIAM and AWM Fellow for contributions to computational mathematics.