Jennifer Rexford

Jennifer Rexford is the Provost, Gordon Y.S. Wu Professor of Engineering, and Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University. She previously served as the chair of the Computer Science department at Princeton. Before joining the Princeton faculty, Jennifer worked for eight years at AT&T Labs--Research. She received her BSE degree in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University, and her PhD degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Michigan. Jennifer's research focuses on computer networking with the goal of making future networks worthy of the trust society increasingly places in them. She is co-author of the books "The Real Internet Architecture: Past, Present, and Future Evolution" (Princeton University Press, 2024) and "Web Protocols and Practice: HTTP/1.1, Networking Protocols, Caching, and Traffic Measurement" (Addison-Wesley, 2001), and co-editor of the book "She's an Engineer? Princeton Alumnae Reflect" (Princeton University, 1993). She received the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award for outstanding young computer professional, the ACM Athena Lecturer Award, the NCWIT Harrold and Notkin Research and Graduate Mentoring Award, the ACM SIGCOMM award for lifetime contributions, the IEEE Internet Award, and the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal. Jennifer is an ACM Fellow, an IEEE Fellow, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the National Academy of Sciences.