Kathryn Leonard

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Kathryn Leonard
NationalityAmerican
Alma materPhD, Brown University, 2004
BS, University of New Mexico
AwardsAWM 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. Leonard received a Henry L. Alder Award from the Mathematical Association of America in 2012. [1] She received the AWM Service Award from the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) in 2015. [2] She served as the AWM Meetings Coordinator from 2015 - 2018. [3] She was President of the AWM and is now AWM Past-President. [4] She is also director of the NSF-funded Center for Undergraduate Research in Mathematics. She is currently on the American Mathematical Society Nominating Committee. [5]

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. [6]

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. [7]

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References

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  7. 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 .