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Kathryn Leonard

Kathryn Leonard

American mathematician and computer scientist

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]

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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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    "Henry L. Alder Award". Mathematical Association of America. Retrieved 7 April 2019.
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    "Association for Women in Mathematics Service Award 2015". Association for Women in Mathematics. Retrieved 7 April 2019.
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    "History of the AWM". Association for Women in Mathematics. Retrieved 13 April 2019.
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    "Executive Committee". Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM). Retrieved 2023-03-29.
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    "AMS Committees". American Mathematical Society. Retrieved 2023-03-29.
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    "Faculty Profiles: Kathryn Leonard". CSU Channel Islands. Retrieved 7 April 2019.
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    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.


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