Mackenzie Leake is a METEOR postdoctoral fellow at MIT CSAIL. She received her PhD and MS in computer science from Stanford University and a BA in computational science and studio art from Scripps College. Her dissertation was on developing algorithmic tools for quilt design, and more broadly her research focuses on designing computational tools for various creative domains, including textiles and video. Her research has been published at several computer graphics and HCI venues, including SIGGRAPH and CHI, and her quilts have been exhibited at the Houston International Quilt Festival, the AQS Paducah Quilt Show, and QuiltCon.