Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Richland, Washington, United States

Kathleen Nowak is a mathematician at PNNL. Working at PNNL, she has applied techniques from graph theory, combinatorics, optimization, game theory, linear algebra, signal processing, and topological data analysis to projects in machine learning, cyber security, nuclear nonproliferation, and  quantum computing. Her current work focuses on machine learning in the national security space. Ms. Nowak holds a PhD in pure mathematics from Iowa State University where she specialized in algebraic combinatorics.