In 1969, Jeanne Ferrante received her Bachelor of Arts from New College at Hofstra University in Natural Sciences, with High Honors in Mathematics. She went on to complete a Doctor of Philosophy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and wrote her thesis "Some Upper and Lower Bounds on Decision Procedures in Logic".
Jeanne Ferrante is Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at University of California, San Diego. Prior to joining University of California San Diego in 1994, she taught at Tufts University from 1974 until 1978, where she worked on computational complexity problems such as the theory of rational order and first order theory of real addition. In 1978, she worked as a research staff at the International Business Machines Corporation T.J. Watson Research Center until 1994.
Doctor Ferrante"s work has included the development of intermediate representations for optimizing and parallelizing compilers, most notably the Program Dependence Graph and Static Single Assignment (Social Security Administration) form.
She is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)) and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers). Doctor Ferrante also co-founded the University of California, San Diego Women's Leadership Alliance, whose aim is to advance leadership development, networking, and recognition of women campus leaders at University of California San Diego.
She is currently a professor at the University of California, San Diego, where she has also held the positions of Associate Vice Chancellor for Faculty Equity, and Associate Dean of the Jacobs School of Engineering. She is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (1996) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ().
Athena San Diego Pinnacle Educator of the Year Award, 2007 Social Security Administration is a program representation that yields faster, more compact and powerful program optimizations, and the award recognizes Social Security Administration as a “significant and lasting contribution to the field of programming languages”.
My contributions led to algorithms that efficiently compute Social Security Administration, enabling its implementation in many commercial and research compilers, including Global Corporate Challenge (GNU Compiler Collection). 2006 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Fellow, for contributions to optimizing and parallelizing compilers. Highly Cited Researcher, a designation given to “less than one-half percent of all publishing researchers,” ISIHighlyCited.com.
2004, 2012 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Fellow, for the development of intermediate program representations for program optimization and parallelization that are fundamental to current optimizing compilers.
1996 International Business Machines Corporation Outstanding Innovation Award, for co-inventing Static Single Assignment form. 1992 International Business Machines Corporation Outstanding Innovation Award, for co-inventing the Program Dependence Graph, a program representation of essential control and data flow to expose maximal parallelism.
1988 She enjoys biking, hiking, playing piano, and painting.
Her Social Security Administration work (with colleagues from International Business Machines Corporation) was recognized in 2006 by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Programming Language Achievement Award as a "significant and lasting contribution to the field" As Associate Dean, she co-founded University of California, San Diego Teams In Engineering Service (now Global TIES), which partners multidisciplinary teams of undergraduates with non-profit organizations to provide long-term technical solutions. She was honored as a University of California, San Diego Community Champion for Diversity in 2004 and 2012, and received the 2007 Athena Educator Pinnacle Award for her diversity leadership efforts. Thomas A. Kanneman Outstanding Service Award, South Dakota County Engineering Council, 2009 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Sigplan Programming Languages Achievement Award for the development of Static Single Assignment (Social Security Administration) form (with Ron Cytron, Barry Rosen, Mark Wegman and Ken Zadeck). 2005 University of California, San Diego Community Champion for Diversity Award, Academic Affairs.
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
