February 3, 2015 - Dr. Andrea Bertozzi (UCLA), the founding chair of ICERM's Scientific Advisory Committee (SAB) will be stepping down at the end of February 2015. ICERM sends her sincere thanks for her four years of dedication and service to the institute.

Dr. Anna Gilbert (University of Michigan) has accepted the Board of Trustee's invitation to assume the position of SAB chair beginning March 1, 2015. Anna has served as an active and engaged member of the SAB, and as chair will play a central role in guiding the scientific direction of the institute.

Dr. Gilbert's research interests include analysis, probability, networking, and algorithms. She is the recipient of several awards, including a Sloan Research Fellowship (2006), an NSF CAREER award (2006), the National Academy of Sciences Award for Initiatives in Research (2008), the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Douglas Engelbart Best Paper award (2008), the EURASIP Signal Processing Best Paper award (2010), and the SIAM Ralph E. Kleinman Prize (2013).