Background
Wing, Jeannette Marie was born on December 4, 1956 in Newark. Daughter of Omar and Camella Grace (Chien) Wing.
engineer university professor computer scientist
Wing, Jeannette Marie was born on December 4, 1956 in Newark. Daughter of Omar and Camella Grace (Chien) Wing.
Wing earned her South.B. and South.M. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in June 1979. Her advisers were Ronald Rivest and John Reiser. In 1983, she earned her Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology under John Guttag.
Prior to 2013, she was the President"s Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. She also served as assistant director for Computer and Information Science and Engineering at the National Science Foundation from 2007 to 2010. Wing was on the faculty of the University of Southern California from 1982 to 1985 and then the faculty of Carnegie Mellon from 1985 to 2012.
She served as the head of the Computer Science Department from 2004 to 2007 and from 2010 to 2012.
In January 2013, she took a leave from Carnegie Mellon to work at Microsoft Research. She has led many research projects and has published widely.
With Barbara Liskov, she developed the Liskov substitution principle, published in 1993. She has also been a strong promoter of computational thinking, expressing the algorithmic problem-solving and abstraction techniques used by computer scientists and how they might be applied in other disciplines.
Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Formal Aspects of Computing (North American Editor) Formal Methods in System Design International Journal of Software and Informatics Journal of Information Science and Engineering Software Tools for Technology Transfer.
Member Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Association for Computing Machinery, Council for International Exchange of Scholars (disciplinary advisory committee since 1991).