Naomi Ehrich Leonard, Ph.D.
Chair and Edwin S. Wilsey Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University
Leonard uses tools from feedback control and nonlinear dynamics to study and design the dynamics of interacting agents such as animal groups and robot teams. She develops analytically tractable mathematical models to examine feedback, interconnection and heterogeneity in the behavior, learning and resilience of groups in changing environments. She is a MacArthur Fellow, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers, the International Federation of Automatic Control and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.