Dorothea Blostein (née Haken) is a Canadian computer scientist who works as a professor of computer science at Queen's University. She has published well-cited publications on computer vision,[BA] image analysis,[ZBC] and graph rewriting,[BFG] and is known as one of the authors of the master theorem for divide-and-conquer recurrences.[BHS] Her research interests also include biomechanics and tensegrity.[1]

Blostein is the daughter of mathematician Wolfgang Haken, and while she was in high school and college she helped check her father's proof of the four color theorem.[2] She did her undergraduate studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, earning a B.Sc. in 1978, and then received a master's degree from Carnegie Mellon University in 1980.[3] She returned to the University of Illinois for her doctoral studies, completing a Ph.D. in 1987, under the supervision of Narendra Ahuja.[3][4]

Her husband, Steven D. Blostein, is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Queen's University.

Selected publications

References

  1. Home page at Queen's University, retrieved 2017-06-17
  2. Appel, Kenneth; Haken, Wolfgang (1989), Every planar map is four colorable, Contemporary Mathematics, vol. 98, American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, p. xv, doi:10.1090/conm/098, ISBN 0-8218-5103-9, MR 1025335, S2CID 8735627
  3. 1 2 Program committee member biography, SPLASH 2014, retrieved 2017-06-17
  4. Dorothea Blostein at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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