Lenore Cowen

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Lenore Jennifer Cowen is an American mathematician and computer scientist known for her work in graph coloring, network routing, and computational biology. She is a professor of computer science and (by courtesy) of mathematics at Tufts University.

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Early life and education

Cowen is the daughter of Robert Cowen, a professor of mathematics at Queens College, City University of New York, and Ilsa Cowen, a high school English teacher. She has been a classical violin player since the age of five, [1] and as a student at Benjamin N. Cardozo High School in Bayside, Queens, she edited the school poetry magazine. However, despite these other interests, she decided to aim for a mathematical career after attending a summer mathematics program for high school students, the Hampshire College Summer Studies in Mathematics. [2]

She started her studies at Yale University at age 16, [1] and graduated in 1987 with a bachelor's degree in mathematics, also winning the university's deForest Prize as the top graduate in mathematics that year. [3] She went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for graduate study in applied mathematics, completing her Ph.D. in 1993 with a dissertation On Local Representations of Graphs and Networks supervised by Daniel Kleitman. [3] [4]

Career

After postdoctoral research at Rutgers University and the Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications at the University of Minnesota, Cowen joined the Johns Hopkins University faculty in 1994 as an assistant professor of mathematical sciences. She moved to the computer science department of Tufts University in 2000, added a joint appointment in mathematics in 2004, and was promoted to full professor at Tufts in 2009. [3]

In 2020 she became the principal investigator for the newly formed Tufts Center for Transdisciplinary Research in Principles Of Data Science (T-TRIPODS). [5]

Recognition

In 2020, the Education Committee of the Computing Research Association gave Cowen their CRA-E Undergraduate Research Faculty Mentoring Award, for her work with undergraduates at Tufts on interdisciplinary methods in computational biology and data science. [6] She was elected to the 2023 Class of SIAM Fellows. [7]

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References

  1. 1 2 Sneiderman, Phil (January–March 1996), "On faculty: Breaking the curse of dimensionality", The Gazette: The Newspaper of the Johns Hopkins University
  2. ↑ Dublin, Marlo (2001), Lenore Cowen, AWM Essay Contest: Honorable Mention, Association for Women in Mathematics
  3. 1 2 3 Curriculum vitae (PDF), retrieved 2020-02-09
  4. ↑ Lenore Cowen at the Mathematics Genealogy Project OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  5. ↑ McGovern, Matthew (January 16, 2020), "Tufts awarded $1.5 million NSF grant for interdisciplinary data science institute", Tufts Daily
  6. ↑ Lenore Cowen and Samir Khuller Receive the 2020 CRA-E Undergraduate Research Faculty Mentoring Award, Computing Research Association, 6 February 2020, retrieved 2020-02-09
  7. ↑ "SIAM Announces Class of 2023 Fellows", SIAM News, SIAM, March 30, 2023, retrieved 2023-04-08
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