Donna Lee Hudson (born 1946)[1] is an American biomedical engineer known for her research on expert systems for medical diagnosis and on the application of chaos theory to heart rhythms.
[2] Hudson majored in mathematics at California State University, Fresno, graduating in 1968 and began working for Boeing, on computational problems involving wind tunnels.
In 1975, as a graduate student in engineering and computer science at the University of California, Los Angeles, she began working as an instructor at CSU Fresno.
[4] With Maurice E. Cohen, Hudson is the author of the book Neural Networks and Artificial Intelligence for Biomedical Engineering (Wiley/IEEE Press, 1999).
[5] In 2003, the CSU Fresno College of Science and Mathematics named her as Alumnus of the Year.