Jeanne Ferrante is currently Professor of Computer Science, Associate
Dean in the Jacobs School of Engineering, and Associate Vice
Chancellor for Faculty Equity at the University of California, San
Diego.  She received her B.A. from New College at Hofstra University
in 1969, and her Ph.D. from MIT in 1974.  Prior to joining UC San
Diego in 1994, she taught at Tufts University until 1978, and was
subsequently a Research Staff Member at IBM's T.J. Watson Research
Center.  She served as Computer Science and Engineering Department
Chair from 1996-1999.

Dr. Ferrante's work has included the development of intermediate
representations for optimizing and parallelizing compilers, most
notably the Program Dependence Graph and Static Single Assignment
(SSA) form.  She is a Fellow of the Association for Computing
Machinery (ACM) and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and
Electronic Engineers.  Her SSA work (with colleagues from IBM) was
recognized in 2006 by the ACM Programming Language Achievement Award
as a "significant and lasting contribution to the field."