Jennifer M. Stephan

Jennifer M. Stephan is a professor of computer science at Wellesley College. Professor Stephan received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Johns Hopkins University in 1990. She earned an M.S. and a Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 1992 and 1995, respectively.

A member of the faculty since 1995, Professor Stephan typically teaches the introductory and hardware related courses: Computer Science and the Internet (CS110), Computer Programming and Problem Solving (CS111), Introduction to Machine Organization with Laboratory (CS240), Computer Architecture with Laboratory (CS340), Operating Systems (CS341), and Advanced Computer Organization and Design (CS343).

Her research interests focus on the areas of control and software fault-tolerance: identification and characterization of software errors, mechanisms for tolerating and recovering from software errors, methods for and architectures for increasing reliability of software, and recovery mechanisms for control systems.

Profile last updated: 8/06

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