Associate Dean: Jeanne Ferrante

As Associate Dean, Jeanne Ferrante oversees Engineering Student Services; founded and co-directs the Teams in Engineering Service program, which partners multidisciplinary teams of undergraduates with non-profit organizations to provide long-term technical solutions; and is P.I. on the NSF-sponsored Information Technology Engineering and Environmental Education Tools project. Her goals as Associate Dean include fostering excellence and diversity, as well as transparent information flow.

Dr. Ferrante is also Associate Vice Chancellor for Faculty Equity and professor of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at UC San Diego, where she served as department chair from 1996-1999. She received her B.A. in 1969 from New College at Hofstra University, and Ph.D. from MIT in 1974. Prior to joining UC San Diego in 1994, she taught at Tufts University (1974 – 78) and was subsequently a Research Staff Member at IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center.

Dr. Ferrante's work has included the development of intermediate representations for optimizing and parallelizing compilers, most notably the Program Dependence Graph and Static Single Assignment (SSA) form. She is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. Her SSA work (with colleagues from IBM) was recognized in 2006 by the ACM Programming Language Achievement Award as a "significant and lasting contribution to the field."