Naomi Ehrich Leonard

Naomi Ehrich Leonard is Edwin S. Wilsey Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and associated faculty in applied and computational mathematics at Princeton University.  She is a MacArthur Fellow and a fellow of SIAM, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the International Federation of Automatic Control, and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Leonard received her BSE in mechanical engineering from Princeton and her Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland. Her research is in control and dynamics with application to multi-agent systems, mobile robotic sensor networks, collective animal behavior, and human decision dynamics.