Redmond, Wa., USA - November 22, 2012, Redmond, Wa., USA - Microsoft Corporation announces that Jeannette Wing will join Microsoft Research as vice president, head of Microsoft Research International, effective January 2013.
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Ms. Wing is a leading figure in computer science research, particularly in formal methods, security and privacy. She has held key positions in both academia and government, most recently at Carnegie Mellon University and the National Science Foundation (NSF).
From 2007 to 2010, Ms. Wing served as assistant director of the Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate at the NSF, where she led the directorate that funds academic computer science research in the United States.
In this capacity, she worked with NSF staff to set funding priorities for the academic science and engineering research community, create new programs, and represent the nation’s computer science community.
Ms. Wing has served twice as head of the Department of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University: before her term at NSF and again upon her return to Carnegie Mellon.
She was also associate dean for Academic Affairs at Carnegie Mellon for five years, overseeing the educational programs offered by the School of Computer Science.
Ms. Wing received her bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Ms. Wing is a board member of the Computing Research Association, Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing Academic Advisory Board and General Electric’s Academic Software Advisory Panel.
She is vice chair of the DARPA Information Science and Technology (ISAT) Board.
She has been a member of many other advisory boards, including the Federal Networking and Information Technology Research and Development technical advisory group to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, the National Academy of Science’s Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, ISAT, and NSF’s CISE Advisory Committee.
She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Association for Computing Machinery, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. ■