Naomi Ehrich Leonard's School of Collaboration.

This paper profiles Naomi Ehrich Leonard. In the fall of 2004, Princeton University professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering Naomi Ehrich Leonard won a MacArthur Fellowship. Popularly named a "genius grant," the award recognizes her work in control theory and its application to autonomous underwater vehicles. Leonard's talent lies in creatively exploring solutions to control problems through combining diverse expertise in such areas as mechanics, mathematics, computer science and robotics with an interest in biology, oceanography and ecology.