Marianne Winslett has been a professor with the Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign since 1987 (Assistant, Associate, full, Adjunct, Research, and Emerita). She is also a venture partner at R3i Ventures, which is based in Singapore.
Professor Winslett is a Fellow of the ACM, and she received the Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation in 1989. She has served as ACM SIGMOD Vice Chair, SIGAI Secretary/Treasurer, and on the editorial boards of ACM Transactions on Database Systems, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, the Very Large Data Bases Journal, ACM Transactions on Information and System Security, and ACM Transactions on the Web, where she also served as co-Editor-in-Chief. She and her coauthors have received best paper awards from Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), USENIX Security, the International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), and IEEE BigData. She received a Ph.D. degree in computer science from Stanford University in 1987 and an A.B. in math from Harvard in 1980. Her research interests include information management and security.
