Biography:Kathryn Leonard
Kathryn Leonard | |
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| Nationality | American |
| 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]
Recognition
Leonard received a Henry L. Alder Award from the Mathematical Association of America in 2012.[5] She received the AWM Service Award from the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) in 2015.[6] The Association for Women in Mathematics named her to their 2025 Class of AWM Fellows.[7]
References
- ↑ "Executive Committee" (in en-US). https://awm-math.org/about/executive-committee/.
- ↑ "AMS Committees" (in en). http://www.ams.org/about-us/governance/committees/comm-all.html.
- ↑ "Faculty Profiles: Kathryn Leonard". http://ciapps.csuci.edu/FacultyBiographies/kathryn.leonard. Retrieved 7 April 2019.
- ↑ Carlier, Axel; Leonard, Kathryn; Hahmann, Stefanie; Morin, Geraldine; Collins, Misha (August 2016). "The 2D shape structure dataset: A user annotated open access database". Computers & Graphics 58: 23–30. doi:10.1016/j.cag.2016.05.009.
- ↑ "Henry L. Alder Award". https://www.maa.org/programs-and-communities/member-communities/maa-awards/teaching-awards/henry-l-alder-award. Retrieved 7 April 2019.
- ↑ "Association for Women in Mathematics Service Award 2015". https://awm-math.org/awards/awm-service-award/awm-service-award-2015/. Retrieved 7 April 2019.
- ↑ "The AWM Fellows Program". AWM News 54 (6): 8. November–December 2025. https://awm-math.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/AWM-News-Nov-Dec-2024-WEB.pdf.
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