Jeannette Wing
Also known as Jeannette Marie Wing, Jeannette M. Wing
Jeannette Wing is a computer scientist whose current research focuses on trustworthy AI. After her MIT doctorate in 1983, she taught at Carnegie Mellon from 1985 to 2012 and headed its computer science department twice. Her 2006 essay on computational thinking promoted the problem-solving methods of computer science in other disciplines. At the National Science Foundation from 2007 to 2010, she served as assistant director, and she was a corporate vice president at Microsoft Research until June 2017. She is executive vice president for research at Columbia University, and in 2024 the National Academy of Engineering elected her as a member.
- Now at
- Columbia University
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- Citations
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- 46
Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 15 October 2026.
Timeline
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1979–1983
A doctorate under John Guttag
She earns S.B. and S.M. degrees in electrical engineering and computer science at MIT in June 1979. She completes a PhD there under John Guttag in 1983.
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1985–2012
Carnegie Mellon professor and department head
She joins the Carnegie Mellon faculty in 1985 and heads its computer science department from 2004 to 2007 and again from 2010 to 2012.
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March 2006
The computational thinking essay
She publishes the essay Computational Thinking in Communications of the ACM in March 2006. The essay promotes the problem-solving methods of computer science in other disciplines.
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2007–2010
Assistant director at the NSF
She serves as assistant director of the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering directorate from 2007 to 2010.
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2013–2017
Corporate vice president at Microsoft Research
She takes leave from Carnegie Mellon in January 2013 to work at Microsoft Research. She is its corporate vice president, overseeing research labs around the world, until June 2017.
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October 2021
A Trustworthy AI article
Her article Trustworthy AI appears in Communications of the ACM in October 2021. Her current research interests are in trustworthy AI.
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2024
National Academy of Engineering member
The National Academy of Engineering elects her as a member in 2024, for formulation and advocacy of computational thinking and for contributions to formal methods and trustworthy computing.
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Since 2021
Executive vice president for research
She moves from directing Columbia's Data Science Institute to become executive vice president for research in 2021. In that role she manages research across Columbia's New York campuses and abroad, and she is also a professor of computer science.
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