Jennifer Rexford, former Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council Member, Engineering Professor and Chair of the Computer Science Department at Princeton University was just named Princeton’s provost. The provost position acts as chief academic advisor and chief budget officer. Rexford will start her new position in March, 2023.

Rexford is a long-time friend of the CCC. She served on the CCC Council from 2014 – 2020 where she held an exec position. She was involved in many initiatives during her time at the CCC. You can read several white papers she co-authoring below:

• Evolving Academia/Industry Relations in Computing Research  (2019)
• Advanced Cyberinfrastructure for Science, Engineering, and Public Policy (2017)
• Systems Computing Challenges in the Internet of Things (2015)

Additionally Rexford sat on the Computing Research Association Board and received the CRA-E Undergraduate Research Faculty Mentoring Award in 2019.

Before joining Princeton in 2005, she worked for eight years at AT&T Labs–Research. Jennifer received her BSE degree in electrical engineering from Princeton University in 1991, and her PhD degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of Michigan in 1996. She is co-author of the book “Web Protocols and Practice” (Addison-Wesley, May 2001). She served as the chair of ACM SIGCOMM from 2003 to 2007. Jennifer was the 2004 winner of ACM’s Grace Murray Hopper Award for outstanding young computer professional. She is an ACM Fellow (2008), and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2013) and the National Academy of Engineering (2014).

Please join us in congratulating Rexford on her new position!