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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 has held several significant positions, including serving as the Chair of the Computer Science Department from 2009 to 2014 and the Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Academic Affairs in the School of Engineering from 2014 to 2016. Jennifer earned her bachelor's degree from Indiana University Jacobs School of Music in 1982 and received her PhD from Cornell University in Computer Science in 1987. She joined the faculty at Stanford in 1993 after working as a Research Staff Member at IBM Almaden Research Center. Her research interests encompass various facets of nontraditional data management. Jennifer is recognized as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery and a member of both the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has received numerous accolades throughout her career, including the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2000 and the ACM SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award in 2007. Jennifer continues to influence the academic community through her teaching, research, and administrative leadership in engineering and computer science.
School of Engineering, Stanford University • Stanford, CA
Oversees all academic operations and strategic initiatives of the School of Engineering.
Department of Computer Science, Stanford University • Stanford, CA
Engages in research and teaching in the field of nontraditional data management.
Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University • Stanford, CA
Conducts research and teaches in electrical engineering.
The Computer Science department emphasizes research potential. GRE General is currently optional but recommended for some tracks.