Cynthia A. Phillips

Cynthia A. Phillips is a researcher at the Center for Computing Research of Sandia National Laboratories, known for her work in combinatorial optimization.

Education

Phillips earned a bachelor's degree in applied mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1983,
a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT in 1985, and a doctorate in computer science from MIT in 1990.
Her dissertation, on parallel algorithms, was supervised by Charles Leiserson.

Recognition

In 2015, she became an ACM Distinguished Member.
She became a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in 2016 "for contributions to the theory and applications of combinatorial optimization".
She was selected a Sandia Lab Fellow in 2022.