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Jennifer L. Rexford serves as Provost and the Gordon Y.S. Wu Professor in Engineering at Princeton University, holding a primary appointment as Professor of Computer Science within the School of Engineering and Applied Science. She joined the faculty in 2005 after eight years as a researcher at AT&T Labs and chaired the Department of Computer Science from 2015.
Her academic credentials include a B.S.E. in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University (1991) and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Michigan (1996).
Rexford's research centers on advancing computer networking to establish a trustworthy Internet infrastructure, with significant contributions in network security, protocol design, and distributed systems. Her work bridges theoretical rigor with real-world deployment, focusing on societal impacts of network reliability and security.
Her distinguished scientific recognition includes election to:
- National Academy of Sciences
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- National Academy of Engineering
She maintains extensive interdisciplinary affiliations across Princeton, including Electrical and Computer Engineering, Operations Research and Financial Engineering, Applied and Computational Mathematics, Gender and Sexuality Studies, the Center for Information Technology Policy, the High Meadows Environmental Institute, and the Princeton Institute for Computational Science and Engineering.
