Mackenzie Leake is a research scientist at Adobe in San Francisco. Her research focuses on building computational design and media tools. She publishes her work in computer graphics and human-computer interaction venues, including SIGGRAPH, CHI, and UIST. She is a quilter and has exhibited quilts at QuiltCon, Paducah QuiltWeek, Houston International Quilt Festival, and the Pacific International Quilt Festival. Previously she was a METEOR postdoctoral fellow at MIT CSAIL, and she received a PhD and MS in computer science at Stanford University.