Kathryn Brenda MacGibbon-Taylor (July 31, 1944 – October 7, 2022) was a Canadian mathematician, statistician, and decision scientist.
She was a professor of mathematics at the Université du Québec à Montréal[1] and was affiliated with the Group for Research in Decision Analysis.
She earned a master's degree there in 1966, working with Michael Herschorn on differential equations,[3] and completed a Ph.D. in 1970, with a dissertation on topology supervised by Donald A.
[4][5] As well as McGill and the Université du Québec à Montréal, she has also been affiliated with the Department of Decision Sciences and Management Information Systems at Concordia University in Montreal, where she was hired in 1986.
She died from complications of Alzheimer's disease and ALS on October 7, 2022, at the age of 78.