Jeanne Ferrante

Jeanne Ferrante (born January 3, 1949) is an American computer scientist active in the field of compiler technology, and a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of California, San Diego. During her time at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center from 1978 to 1992, she contributed to the development of static single assignment form, a technique used in compiler optimization, and in 1991 co-authored with Ron Cytron, Barry K. Rosen, Mark N. Wegman and Kenneth Zadeck the paper establishing an efficient algorithm for converting programs into that form. She earned a PhD in mathematics from MIT in 1974, received the ACM SIGPLAN Programming Languages Achievement Award in 2006, and is a Fellow of both the ACM and the IEEE.