Short biography for Naomi Ehrich Leonard
Naomi Ehrich Leonard is the Edwin S. Wilsey Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and
an associated faculty member of the Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics at Princeton
University where she has been since 1994. In 2004 she was awarded a John D. and Catherine T.
MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. In 2007 the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers
(IEEE) named her an IEEE Fellow. She has also received the University of California at
Santa Barbara Mohammed Dahleh Distinguished Lecture Award (2005), the Automatica Prize Paper
award (1999), the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award (1998) and the National Science
Foundation CAREER Award (1995). In 2001 she was the Lise Meitner Guest Professor at Lund
University, Sweden and in 2007 a Visiting Professor at University of Pisa, Italy.
She has delivered several plenary lectures at conferences including the IEEE International
Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) in 2008, International Symposium on Mathematical
Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS) in 2008, IFAC Workshop on Navigation, Guidance and Control
of Underwater Vehicles in 2008, SIAM Conference on Control and Its Applications in 2005, SIAM
Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems in 2003 and the IFAC Nonlinear Control Systems
Design Symposium (NOLCOS) in 1998. She has served as associate editor for Automatica and SIAM
Journal on Control and Optimization. She received the B.S.E. degree in mechanical engineering
from Princeton University in 1985. From 1985 to 1989, she worked as an engineer in the electric
power industry. She received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the
University of Maryland in 1991 and 1994.