Jeanne Ferrante is currently Professor of Computer Science and
Associate Dean in the Jacobs School of Engineering at the University
of California, San Diego.  She received her B.A. from New College at
Hofstra University in 1969, and her Ph.D. in mathematics from MIT in
1974.  She was an Assistant Professor at Tufts University until 1978,
and Research Staff Member at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center from 1978
to 1994.  Her work has included the development of intermediate
representations for optimizing and parallelizing compilers, most
notably the Program Dependence Graph and Static Single Assignment
form.  Her research interests include optimizing for parallelism and
memory, programming and scheduling large-scale distributed platforms,
and software tool information-sharing and interaction.  She is a
Fellow of the ACM, and an IEEE Fellow.  With colleagues from IBM, she received
the ACM Sigplan Programming Languages Achievement Award in 2006.