Megumi Harada

Megumi Harada is a mathematician who works as a professor in the department of mathematics and statistics at McMaster University, where she holds a tier-two Canada Research Chair in Equivariant Symplectic and Algebraic Geometry. Her research involves the symmetries of symplectic spaces and their connections to other areas of mathematics including algebraic geometry, representation theory, K-theory, and algebraic combinatorics.

Harada graduated in 1996 from Harvard University, with a bachelor's degree in mathematics,, and completed her doctorate in 2003 from the University of California, Berkeley with a dissertation in symplectic geometry supervised by Allen Knutson. After postdoctoral studies at the University of Toronto, she joined the McMaster faculty in 2006.

In 2013, Harada won the Ruth I. Michler Memorial Prize of the Association for Women in Mathematics. She was given her Canada Research Chair in 2014.