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Jennifer Widom is the Fletcher Jones Professor and Chair of the Computer Science Department at Stanford University. She received her Bachelors degree from the Indiana University School of Music in 1982 and her Computer Science Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1987. She was a Research Staff Member at the IBM Almaden Research Center before joining the Stanford faculty in 1993. Her research interests span many aspects of nontraditional data management. She is an ACM Fellow and a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences; she received the ACM SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award in 2007 and was a Guggenheim Fellow in 2000; she has served on a variety of program committees, advisory boards, and editorial boards.

Currently teaching

CS 47N: Datathletics: Diving into Data Analytics and Stanford Sports
CS 199P: Independent Work
CS 191W: Writing Intensive Senior Research Project
CS 399P: Independent Project
EE 191W: Special Studies and Reports in Electrical Engineering (WIM)
CS 499P: Advanced Reading and Research
CS 390D: Part-time Curricular Practical Training
EE 391: Special Studies and Reports in Electrical Engineering
CS 191: Senior Project
EE 300: Master's Thesis and Thesis Research
CS 192: Programming Service Project
CS 199: Independent Work
EE 400: Thesis and Thesis Research
EE 190: Special Studies or Projects in Electrical Engineering
EE 191: Special Studies and Reports in Electrical Engineering
CS 399: Independent Project
EE 390: Special Studies or Projects in Electrical Engineering
CS 499: Advanced Reading and Research
CS 390A: Curricular Practical Training
CS 390B: Curricular Practical Training
CS 390C: Curricular Practical Training