Jeannette M. Wing

Dr. Jeannette M. Wing is the President's Professor of Computer Science and the Head of the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University.  She received her S.B. and S.M. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 1979 and her Ph.D.  degree in Computer Science in 1983, all from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Professor Wing's general research interests are in the areas of specification and verification, concurrent and distributed systems, and programming languages.  Her current focus is on the foundations of trustworthy computing.

Professor Wing has published extensively in top journals and major conferences and has given over 200 invited, keynote, and distinguished lectures.  She was or is on the editorial board of nine journals, including the Journal for the ACM.

Professor Wing is a member of many advisory boards, including: the Networking and Information Technology (NITRD) Technical Advisory Group to the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Tecbnology (PCAST), the National Academies of Sciences's Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing Academic Advisory Board, and the Intel Research Pittsburgh's Advisory Board. She is a Member-at-Large on ACM Council.  She was a member of the DARPA Information Science and Technology (ISAT) Board and the National Science Foundation Scientific Advisory Board.  She was on faculty at the University of Southern California, and has worked at USC/Information Sciences Institute and Xerox Palo Alto Research Laboratories.  She spent a sabbatical 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.  She is a member of AAAS, ACM, IEEE, Sigma Xi, Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Beta Pi, and Eta Kappa Nu.  Professor Wing is an ACM Fellow and an IEEE Fellow.