Jeannette Wing

Jeannette M. Wing is Executive Vice President for Research and Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University, as well as a professor of computer science. She previously served as Avanessians Director of the Data Science Institute.

Her current research interests are in trustworthy AI. Her areas of research expertise include security and privacy, formal methods, programming languages, and distributed and concurrent systems. She is widely recognized for her intellectual leadership in computer science, and more recently in data science. Wing's seminal essay, titled "Computational Thinking," was published more than a fifteen years ago and is credited with helping to establish the centrality of computer science to problem-solving in all other disciplines.

Wing came to Columbia from Microsoft, where she served as Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Research, overseeing research labs worldwide. Before joining Microsoft, she was on the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University, where she served as Head of the Department of Computer Science and as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs of the School of Computer Science. During a leave from Carnegie Mellon, she served at the National Science Foundation as Assistant Director of the Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate, where she oversaw the federal government's funding of academic computer science research. Wing has been recognized with distinguished service awards from the Computing Research Association and the Association for Computing Machinery. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Association for Computing Machinery, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. She holds bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees from MIT.