Irena Vassileva Peeva is a professor of mathematics at Cornell University, and the author of the book Graded Syzygies (Springer, 2011). Peeva did her graduate studies at Brandeis University, earning a Ph.D. in 1995 under the supervision of David Eisenbud with a thesis entitled Free Resolutions. In 2014 she was elected as a fellow of the American Mathematical Society "for contributions to commutative algebra and its applications."