Kathryn Leonard
Kathryn Leonard is an American mathematician and computer scientist. Leonard received a Henry L. Alder Award for teaching from the Mathematical Association of America in 2012. She received the AWM Service Award from the Association for Women in Mathematics in 2015. She served as the AWM Meetings Coordinator from 2015 - 2018. She was elected President-elect of the AWM in late 2019 and will assume the presidency on February 1, 2021. She is also director of the NSF-funded Center for Undergraduate Research in Mathematics.
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.
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.
