Bonita V. Saunders

Bonita V. Saunders is an American mathematician specializing in mathematical visualization. She works at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the Applied and Computational Mathematics Division of the Information Technology Laboratory, where she contributes to the Digital Library of Mathematical Functions as the Visualization Editor and the principal designer of visualizations and graphs.[1]

Bonita V. Saunders
Alma materOld Dominion University
Known forDigital Library of Mathematical Functions
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsNational Institute of Standards and Technology

Professional career

Saunders received her PhD in computational and applied mathematics from Old Dominion University in 1985.[1] She earned her M.S. in Mathematics from the University of Virginia and her B.A. in Mathematics from the College of William and Mary.[2] She worked at the BDM corporation for four years and has published a number of papers.[2] A list of her papers can be found at .

Saunders has made a number of contributions to the Mathematical Association of America. From 1999-2002, she served as the MD-DC-VA Section treasurer.[3] From 2004-2009, she was on the Selection Committee for the Etta Z. Falconer Lecture (sponsored by MAA and AWM).[3] She was also on the MAA Business Industry Government Committee from 2012-2017[3], and was the MD-DC-VA Section Representative to the MAA Congress in 2019.[3] As of 2020 she is on the editorial board for Mathematics Magazine.[3]

Awards and honors

The National Association of Mathematicians chose Saunders to give the 2001 Claytor Lecture at the Joint Mathematics Meetings.[1]

The US Department of Commerce awarded her research group a Gold Medal for Distinguished Scientific/Engineering Achievement in 2011, in recognition for their work in creating the online Digital Library of Mathematical Functions.[4]

In 2018, Mathematically Gifted & Black made Saunders a Black History Month honoree.[5]

In 2019 she accepted the Excellence in Research in Mathematics and Computer Science award from the Washington Academy of Sciences[6] and became a Fellow of the Washington Academy of Sciences.[1]

References
  1. "DLMF: Bonita V. Saunders". dlmf.nist.gov. Retrieved 2020-06-30.
  2. "Bonita V. Saunders, Mathematician of the African Diaspora". www.math.buffalo.edu. Retrieved 2020-07-14.
  3. "Mathematical Association of America - Maryland-District of Columbia-Virginia Section". sections.maa.org. Retrieved 2020-07-14.
  4. "United States Department of Commerce Sixty-Third Annual Honor Awards Program" (PDF).
  5. "Bonita V. Saunders". Mathematically Gifted & Black. Retrieved 2020-06-30.
  6. "Awards Banquet 2019 - Washington Academy of Sciences". Retrieved 2020-06-30.
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