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 |
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| 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
[edit]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
[edit]- ^ "Executive Committee". Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM). Retrieved 2023-03-29.
- ^ "AMS Committees". American Mathematical Society. Retrieved 2023-03-29.
- ^ "Faculty Profiles: Kathryn Leonard". CSU Channel Islands. 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". Mathematical Association of America. Retrieved 7 April 2019.
- ^ "Association for Women in Mathematics Service Award 2015". Association for Women in Mathematics. Retrieved 7 April 2019.
- ^ "The AWM Fellows Program" (PDF). AWM News. Vol. 54, no. 6. November–December 2025. p. 8.
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