Joan Feigenbaum

Yale Affiliated Fellow
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Joan Feigenbaum(link is external)1 is the Grace Murray Hopper Professor of Computer Science(link is external)2 at Yale University(link is external)3. She received a BA in Mathematics from Harvard(link is external)4 and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford(link is external)5. Between finishing her Ph.D. in 1986 and starting at Yale in 2000, she was with AT&T, where she participated very broadly in the company's Information-Sciences research agenda, e.g., by creating a research group in Algorithms and Distributed Data, of which she was the manager in 1998-99. Professor Feigenbaum's research interests include security, privacy, anonymity, and accountability; Internet algorithmics; and computational complexity. While at Yale, she has been a principal in several high-profile activities, including the DHS-funded Pri-Fi Project(link is external)6, the DARPA-fundedDISSENT project,(link is external)7 and the NSF-funded PORTIA project(link is external)8. Her current and recent professional activities include service as the Department Chair of the Yale Computer Science Department (July 2014 through June 2017), Program Chair of the 2013 ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing(link is external)9 and membership on the Editorial Board of the ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation(link is external)10 and the Steering Committee of the NetEcon Workshop(link is external)11. Professor Feigenbaum is a Fellow of the ACM(link is external)12, a Fellow of the AAAS, a Member of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering(link is external)13, and a Connecticut Technology Council Woman of Innovation.(link is external)14 In 1998, she was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians.(link is external)15