Margot Gerritsen

Founder of Women in Data Science Conference (WiDS). With more than 100,000 participants worldwide, online and at satellite events spreading into six continents, Gerritsen has inspired women across the planet world to enter the sciences and provided a platform for them to highlight their work. She is a professor in the Department of Energy Resources Engineering at Stanford, interested in computer simulation and mathematical analysis of engineering and natural processes. From 2010 to 2018, she directed the Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering. Since 2015, She is the Senior Associate Dean for Educational Affairs in the School of Earth, Energy and Environmental Sciences, as well as the co-director of Women in Data Science and the host of the WiDS podcasts.
Her primary interests are in sustainability, and renewable and fossil energy production. She is also active in coastal ocean dynamics and yacht design, as well as several areas in computational mathematics including search algorithm design and matrix computations. Her latest research projects include traffic congestion and emissions simulation and mitigation, and wildland fire prediction and mitigation.