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ABOUT ME

My research sits at the intersection of algebraic geometry and computer vision.

I’m Kathryn, a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate studying shape from shading with Prof. Todd Zickler. I have been working toward a doctoral degree in Applied Mathematics (AM) at Harvard SEAS as a Draper Laboratory Fellow since September 2014. I received an MS in AM from Harvard in November 2016, and a BS in AM from UCLA in June 2014.

Kathryn Heal


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Here's the homotopy extension property.

Upcoming travel:

  • Visiting the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, April-May 2019. In Leipzig, Germany.

Recent travel:

  • Workshop on Real Algebraic Geometry at ICERM, October 2018, presenting a poster titled "Representing the Space of Visual Depth Ambiguities as a Real Affine Variety".
  • S3PM (Shape, Solid, Structure & Physical Modeling) at UC Berkeley, June 2017. Received a NSF student travel award.
  • ISIT (Information Theory) at RWTH Aachen University in Germany, June 2017, giving a talk titled The Number of Independent Sets in Hexagonal Graphs.
  • SIAM-AG (Algebraic Geometry) at Georgia Tech, July 2017, presenting a poster titled Induced Probability Measures on Persistence Diagrams.

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Programming languages: I prefer Python (notebooks) and MATLAB, but also have experience with C++, Java, and Javascript/HTML/CSS. In addition, I am familiar with Mathematica and LaTeX, and a little bit of Magma. I also enjoy making mathematical figures in Adobe Illustrator/Photoshop -- for example, those on this page!

Teaching experience: I was a teaching fellow ENGSCI 150 (Introduction to Probability for Engineers) at Harvard in Spring of 2015. I am honored to have received a Certificate of Excellence in Teaching, based on student evaluations.

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You may notice some diversity in my work -- I wear a lot of hats!

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