Fletcher
Jones Professor,
Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
Senior Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs, School of Engineering
Stanford University
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Biographical Sketch
Jennifer Widom is the Fletcher Jones Professor of Computer
Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, and
the Senior Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs in
Stanford's School of Engineering. She served as chair of the
Computer Science Department from 2009-2014. 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 the ACM SIGMOD
Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award in 2007 and was a Guggenheim
Fellow in 2000; she has served on a variety of program
committees, advisory boards, and editorial boards. Complete
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