Diana Thomas
Diana Maria Thomas is an American applied mathematician known for her research on nutrition and body weight. She is a professor of mathematics at the United States Military Academy.
Thomas earned a Ph.D. in mathematics in 1996 from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her dissertation, Dynamics of Lattice Systems, was supervised by Shui-Nee Chow. After postdoctoral research at West Point and the Army Research Laboratory, she joined the faculty at New Jersey City University in 1998, and moved to Montclair State University in 2000. In 2017, she returned to West Point as a professor.
Topics in her research have included a comparison of the effects of dieting and exercise on weight loss, the effects of weight loss on pregnancy, epidemiological approaches to obesity, and the use of biometric data to predict military training injuries.
