Presenter

Mackenzie Leake is a research scientist at Adobe, where her work focuses on computational design and media editing tools. Previously, she was a postdoctoral fellow at MIT CSAIL and received her PhD in computer science from Stanford University. Her dissertation focused on computational design tools for quilting. She was named a WiGraph Rising Star in Computer Graphics and a Rising Star in EECS. She is active in the modern quilting community, and her quilts have been exhibited at the Houston International Quilt Festival, the AQS Paducah Quilt Show, and QuiltCon.