Jennifer Widom

Jennifer Widom is the Frederick Emmons Terman Dean of the School of Engineering and the Fletcher Jones Professor in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. She served as Computer Science Department Chair from 2009-2014 and School of Engineering Senior Associate Dean from 2014-2016. Jennifer received her Bachelor's degree from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music in 1982 and her Computer Science Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1987. She was a Research Staff Member at the IBM Almaden Research Center before joining the Stanford faculty in 1993. Her research interests span many aspects of nontraditional data management. She is an ACM Fellow and a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences; she received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2000, the ACM SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award in 2007, the ACM-W Athena Lecturer Award in 2015, and the EPFL-WISH Foundation Erna Hamburger Prize in 2018.

Academic Appointments

• Professor, Computer Science
• Professor, Electrical Engineering

Administrative Appointments

• Dean, School of Engineering (2017 - Present)
• Senior Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs, School of Engineering (2014 - 2016)
• Department Chair, Computer Science (2009 - 2014)

Honors & Awards

• Member, National Academy of Engineering (2005 - present)
• Member, American Academy of Arts & Sciences (2009 - present)
• Fellow, ACM (2005 - present)
• Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award, ACM SIGMOD (2007)
• Erna Hamburger Prize, EPFL-WISH Foundation (2018)
• Athena Lecturer Award, ACM-W (2015)
• Fellow, Guggenheim Foundation (2000-01)
• Career Achievement Award, Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing (2015)
• Education Award, IEEE Technical Committee of Data Engineering (2018)

Professional Education

• PhD, Cornell University, Computer Science (1987)
• MS, Cornell University, Computer Science (1985)
• MS, Indiana University, Computer Science (1983)
• BS, Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, Music (1982)