Jeannette M. Wing

Jeannette M. Wing is the Executive Vice President for Research and
Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University. She joined
Columbia in 2017 as the inaugural Avanessians Director of the Data
Science Institute. From 2013 to 2017, she was a Corporate Vice
President of Microsoft Research.  She is Adjunct 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 current research focus is on trustworthy
AI.  Her general research interests are in the areas of trustworthy
computing, security and privacy, specification and verification,
concurrent and distributed systems, programming languages, and
software engineering. She is known for her work on linearizability,
behavioral subtyping, attack graphs, and privacy-compliance checkers.
Her 2006 seminal essay, titled "Computational Thinking," is credited
with helping to establish the centrality of computer science to
problem-solving in fields where previously it had not been embraced.

She was or is on the editorial board of twelve journals,
including the Journal of the ACM, the Communications of the ACM, and
the Harvard Data Science Review.

She is currently a member of the American Academy for Arts and
Sciences Board of Directors and Council; Computing Research
Association Board; American Association of Universities, Senior
Research Officers Steering Committee; the New York State Commission on
Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and Automation; and the Advisory
Board for the Association for Women in Mathematics.  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), American
Association for the Advancement of Science Section on Information,
Computing and Communications (former chair), NSF's CISE Advisory
Committee, the National Library of Medicine Blue Ribbon Panel,
Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, New York City Task force
on Automated Decision Making, 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
has served on the American Academy of Arts and Sciences membership
panel Class 1 Section 6, 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 inaugural ACM-IMS Foundations of Data
Science Conference, the Technical Symposium of Formal Methods'99, the
UW-MSR-CMU 2003 Software Security Summer Institute, and the First
International Symposium on Secure Software Engineering.  She served as
co-chair of NITRD from 2007-2010.  She organized the first academic
Data Science Leadership Summit, sponsored by the Moore Foundation,
NSF, and the Sloan Foundation, which has led to the creation of the
Academic Data Science Allicance.

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,
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Institute of Electrical and
Electronic Engineers (IEEE), and National Academy of Innovators. She
is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.  She holds an
honorary doctorate of technology from Linkoping University, Sweden.