Jennifer McLoud-Mann
Jennifer McLoud-Mann is an American mathematician known for her 2015 discovery, with Casey Mann and undergraduate student David Von Derau, of the 15th and last class of convex pentagons to tile the plane. She is a professor of mathematics at the University of Washington Bothell, where she chairs the division of engineering and mathematics. Beyond tiling, her research interests include knot theory and combinatorics.Education
McLoud-Mann is a 1997 graduate of East Central University in Oklahoma. She completed her Ph.D. in 2002 from the University of Arkansas. Her dissertation in commutative algebra, supervised by Mark Ray Johnson, was On a Certain Family of Determinantal-Like Ideals.Career
Upon completing her doctorate, McLoud-Mann joined the University of Texas at Tyler faculty. In addition, she was associate dean of arts and sciences from 2009 to 2013. In 2013, she moved to the University of Washington Bothell where she is currently a professor and chair of the engineering and mathematics division. She won the Henry L. Alder Award for Distinguished Teaching by a Beginning College or University Mathematics Faculty Member of the Mathematical Association of America in 2008.Personal life
Mcloud-Mann is Cherokee. She was the first in her family to obtain a college degree.
