Dorothea Blostein (' Haken) is a Canadian computer scientist who works as a professor of computer science at

Queen's University Queen's or Queens University may refer to: *Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario, Canada *Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK **Queen's University of Belfast (UK Parliament constituency) (1918–1950) **Queen's University of Belfast ...

. She has published well-cited publications on

computer vision Computer vision is an interdisciplinary scientific field that deals with how computers can gain high-level understanding from digital images or videos. From the perspective of engineering, it seeks to understand and automate tasks that the hum ...

image analysis Image analysis or imagery analysis is the extraction of meaningful information from images; mainly from digital images by means of digital image processing techniques. Image analysis tasks can be as simple as reading bar coded tags or as sophi ...

, and graph rewriting, and is known as one of the authors of the master theorem for divide-and-conquer recurrences. Her research interests also include biomechanics and tensegrity. Blostein is the daughter of mathematician

Wolfgang Haken Wolfgang Haken (June 21, 1928 – October 2, 2022) was a German American mathematician who specialized in topology, in particular 3-manifolds. Biography Haken was born in Berlin, Germany. His father was Werner Haken, a physicist who had Max ...

, and while she was in high school and college she helped check her father's proof of the

four color theorem In mathematics, the four color theorem, or the four color map theorem, states that no more than four colors are required to color the regions of any map so that no two adjacent regions have the same color. ''Adjacent'' means that two regions sh ...

. 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 Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. One of its predecessors was established in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools; it became the Carnegie Institute of Technology ...

in 1980. She returned to the University of Illinois for her doctoral studies, completing a Ph.D. in 1987 under the supervision of

Narendra Ahuja Narendra Ahuja is an Indian-American computer scientist and the Donald Biggar Willett Professor Emeritus in Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. His research primarily concerns computer vision and pattern recognition. ...

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

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Blostein, Dorothea Haken Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Canadian computer scientists Canadian women computer scientists University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni Carnegie Mellon University alumni Queen's University at Kingston faculty