Background
Dumitriu is the daughter of two Romanian electrical engineering professors from Bucharest.
Dumitriu is the daughter of two Romanian electrical engineering professors from Bucharest.
Her research interests include the theory of random matrices, numerical analysis, scientific computing, and game theory. She entered mathematics training camps in preparation for participation on the Romanian team at the International Mathematical Olympiad, although her highest level of participation in the olympiad was the national semifinal. She fell in love with her mathematics coach, Dan Stefanica, and when he went to graduate school at New York University"s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, she followed him there as an undergraduate.
As a 19-year-old freshman at New York University, Dumitriu already was taking graduate-level classes in mathematics.
She graduated summa cum laude from New York University in 1999 with a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics and a minor in computer science. She earned her Doctor of Philosophy in 2003 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under the supervision of Alan Edelman.
After postdoctoral research as a Miller Research Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, she joined the faculty of the University of Washington in 2006. First female Putnam fellowship