2026 Jeannette M. Wing: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	61	2981	2894	1460	1406	237	37612

Research.com Recognitions

2014 - ACM Distinguished Service Award For her advocacy of "computational thinking," her leadership of the Computing and Information Science & Engineering directorate of the US National Science Foundation, and for drawing new and diverse audiences to the field of computer science.
2010 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2007 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
2003 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to methods for software systems.
1998 - ACM Fellow For fundamental contributions to formal methods, programming languages, and programming methodology, and for promoting the use of formal methods in software development.

Overview

Jeannette M. Wing is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States and works primarily in the field of Computer Science. Their research focuses extensively on Artificial Intelligence, with additional work in Safety Research, Cognitive Neuroscience, Computational Theory and Mathematics, and Health Informatics.

Their scholarly output includes publications in various venues, with frequent contributions to:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Communications of the ACM
Harvard Data Science Review
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Public health reviews

Jeannette M. Wing's key topics of research cover several areas, including:

Security and Verification in Computing
Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning
Law, AI, and Intellectual Property
Computability, Logic, AI Algorithms
Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education
Academic integrity and plagiarism
Ethics in Clinical Research

Their recent papers include:

"Trustworthy AI" (2021), published in Communications of the ACM
"Protecting scientific integrity in an age of generative AI" (2024), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
"The Emergence and Future of Public Health Data Science" (2021), published in Public health reviews
"Ensuring Fairness Beyond the Training Data" (2020), published on arXiv (Cornell University)
"Towards Guaranteed Safe AI: A Framework for Ensuring Robust and Reliable AI Systems" (2024), published on arXiv (Cornell University)

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Jeannette M. Wing include:

Alfred Z. Spector
Peter Norvig
Chris H. Wiggins
Wolfgang Blau
Vinton G. Cerf

In addition to journal articles and conference papers, Jeannette M. Wing has contributed to book literature, notably with a publication in Cambridge University Press titled Data Science in Context (2022).

Their work has been recognized with several awards and honors, such as:

ACM Distinguished Service Award (2014) for advocacy of computational thinking and leadership roles
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2010)
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2007)
IEEE Fellow (2003) for contributions to software systems methods
ACM Fellow (1998) for contributions to formal methods, programming languages, and programming methodology

Best Publications

Computational thinking

Jeannette M. Wing

11504
Citations
Linearizability: a correctness condition for concurrent objects

Maurice P. Herlihy;Jeannette M. Wing

4155
Citations
Computational thinking and thinking about computing

J. Wing

2884
Citations
Formal methods: state of the art and future directions

Edmund M. Clarke;Jeannette M. Wing

2190
Citations
Automated generation and analysis of attack graphs

O. Sheyner;J. Haines;S. Jha;R. Lippmann

1879
Citations
A behavioral notion of subtyping

Barbara H. Liskov;Jeannette M. Wing

1764
Citations
A specifier's introduction to formal methods

J.M. Wing

1267
Citations
Specification matching of software components

Amy Moormann Zaremski;Jeannette M. Wing

1121
Citations
An Attack Surface Metric

P K Manadhata;J M Wing

864
Citations
Two formal analyses of attack graphs

S. Jha;O. Sheyner;J. Wing

785
Citations
Game strategies in network security

Kong-Wei Lye;Jeannette M. Wing

665
Citations
Tools for generating and analyzing attack graphs

Oleg Sheyner;Jeannette Wing

543
Citations
Signature matching: a tool for using software libraries

Amy Moormann Zaremski;Jeannette M. Wing

511
Citations
The Larch Family of Specification Languages

J.V. Guttag;J.J. Horning;J.M. Wing

424
Citations
Measuring Relative Attack Surfaces

Michael Howard;Jon Pincus;Jeannette Marie. Wing

316
Citations
Ranking attack graphs

Vaibhav Mehta;Constantinos Bartzis;Haifeng Zhu;Edmund Clarke

302
Citations
Computational thinking’s influence on research and education for all

Jeannette M. Wing

289
Citations
Axioms for concurrent objects

M. P. Herlihy;J. M. Wing

246
Citations
Scenario graphs and attack graphs

Oleg Mikhail Sheyner;Jeannette Wing

235
Citations
An Invitation to Formal Methods

J.P. Bowen;R.W. Butler;D.L. Dill;R.L. Glass

193
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Desney S. Tan Microsoft (United States)

Andrew D. Wilson Microsoft (United States)

Anupam Datta Carnegie Mellon University

Maurice Herlihy Brown University

Clarence T. Tegreene Microsoft (United States)

Victoria Y. H. Wood Microsoft (United States)

Jordin T. Kare Microsoft (United States)

Charles Whitmer Microsoft (United States)

John V. Guttag MIT

Roderick A. Hyde Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

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