Jeannette M. Wing
Wing has connected formal reasoning, security research, and public research leadership under the goal of trustworthy computing.
Jeannette M. Wing is a computer scientist and research leader whose work spans trustworthy computing, security and privacy, specification and verification, and distributed systems. She has held senior roles in academia, government, and industrial research.
Trustworthy systems
Wing’s research treats security and privacy as central properties of systems that must be designed and assessed alongside correctness and reliability. Her leadership has also helped bring these concerns into broader computing-research agendas.
Timeline
- 1985Joins the Carnegie Mellon computer-science faculty.
- 2007Becomes assistant director of NSF’s CISE directorate.
- 2017Joins Columbia University as inaugural director of its Data Science Institute.
Jeannette M. Wing
- Type
- Person
- Era
- 1980s-Present
- Known for
- Trustworthy computing; Security and privacy; Formal methods
- Tags
- trustworthy-computing, security-and-privacy, formal-methods, academia, research-leadership
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