Jeannette M. Wing

Jeannette M. Wing is Avanessians Director of the Data Science
Institute and Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University.
From 2013 to 2017, she was a Corporate Vice President of Microsoft
Research.  She is Consulting Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie
Mellon where she twice served as the Head of the Computer Science
Department and had been on the faculty since 1985.  From 2007-2010 she
was the Assistant Director of the Computer and Information Science and
Engineering Directorate at the National Science Foundation.  She
received her S.B., S.M., and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science, all
from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Professor Wing's general research interests are in the areas of
trustworthy computing, specification and verification, concurrent and
distributed systems, programming languages, and software engineering.
Her current interests are in the foundations of security and privacy,
with a new emphasis on trustworthy AI.

She is currently a member of: National Library of Medicine Blue Ribbon
Panel, the Science, Engineering, and Technology Advisory Committee for
the American Academy for Arts and Sciences; the Board of Trustees for
the Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics; the Advisory Board for
the Association for Women in Mathematics; and the Alibaba DAMO
Technical Advisory Board.  She has been a member of many industry,
government, and professional society boards, including: Networking and
Information Technology (NITRD) Technical Advisory Group to the
President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST),
National Academies of Sciences' Computer Science and
Telecommunications Board (former chair), ACM Council, Computing
Research Association Board, DARPA ISAT (former chair), AAAS Section on
Information, Computing and Communications (former chair), NSF's CISE
Advisory Committee, Microsoft Trustworthy Computing Academic Advisory
Board, General Electric Academic Software Advisory Panel, Intel
Research Pittsburgh's Advisory Board, Dartmouth's Institute for
Security Technology Studies Advisory Committee, and Idaho National
Laboratory and Homeland Security Strategic Advisory Committee.  She
serves on the American Academy of Arts and Sciences membership panel
Class 1 Section 6 (current chair) and served on the ACM Infosys Award
Committee, the ACM Kanellakis Award Committee, the ACM Karlstrom
Outstanding Educator Award Committee, and the Sloan Research
Fellowships Program Committee.  She was the co-chair of the Technical
Symposium of Formal Methods'99, co-organizer of the UW-MSR-CMU 2003
Software Security Summer Institute, and co-chair of the First
International Symposium on Secure Software Engineering.  She served as
co-chair of NITRD from 2007-2010.  She is organizing the first
academic Data Science Leadership Summit, sponsored by the Moore
Foundation, NSF, and the Sloan Foundation.

She was on the faculty at the University of Southern California, and
has worked at Bell Laboratories, USC/Information Sciences Institute,
and Xerox Palo Alto Research Laboratories.  She spent sabbaticals at
MIT in 1992 and at Microsoft Research 2002-2003.  She has consulted
for Digital Equipment Corporation, the Mellon Institute (Carnegie
Mellon Research Institute), System Development Corporation, and the
Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Professor Wing received the CRA Distinguished Service Award in 2011
and the ACM Distinguished Service Award in 2014.  She is a member of
She is a member of Sigma Xi, Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Beta Pi, and Eta
Kappa Nu.  She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science, the
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and the Institute of
Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE).