Kathryn Leonard
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BS, University of New Mexico
Henry L. Alder Award
Kathryn Leonard | |
|---|---|
| Alma mater | PhD, Brown University, 2004 BS, University of New Mexico |
| Awards | AWM Service Award Henry L. Alder Award |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | California State University, Channel Islands Occidental College |
| Doctoral advisor | David Mumford |
Kathryn Leonard is an American mathematician and computer scientist. She was President of the Association for Women in Mathematics and is now AWM Past-President.[1] She is also director of the NSF-funded Center for Undergraduate Research in Mathematics. She is currently on the American Mathematical Society Nominating Committee.[2]
Leonard's research focuses on geometric modeling with applications to computer vision, computer graphics, and data science. She has received multiple major grants, including a National Science Foundation CAREER Award.[3]
Leonard and Misha Collins, together with several other collaborators, are authors of "The 2D shape structure dataset", an article on a crowd-sourced database on the structure of shapes.[4]
