Jill Pipher
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Jill C. Pipher | |
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| Alma mater | University of California, Los Angeles |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Brown University |
| Doctoral advisor | John B. Garnett |
Jill Catherine Pipher (born December 14, 1955, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) is an American mathematician. She served as president of the American Mathematical Society (AMS, 2019–2020).[1] and president of the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM, 2011–2013). She was the first director of the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM, 2011–2016), an NSF-funded mathematics institute based in Providence, Rhode Island.[2]
Pipher's research areas include harmonic analysis, Fourier analysis, partial differential equations, and cryptography. She has published more than 60 research articles and has coauthored with Jeffrey Hoffstein and Joseph Silverman a textbook titled An Introduction to Mathematical Cryptography.[3]
Education and career
Pipher is currently the Elisha Benjamin Andrews Professor of Mathematics at Brown University. She received a B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1979 and a PhD from UCLA in 1985 under the direction of John B. Garnett.[4] She taught at the University of Chicago (1985–1990) before taking a position at Brown in 1990, where she served as chair of the Mathematics Department from 2005 to 2008.
In 1996, Pipher, along with Jeffrey Hoffstein, Daniel Lieman and Joseph Silverman, founded NTRU Cryptosystems, Inc., now part of Security Innovation, Inc. to market their cryptographic algorithms, NTRUEncrypt and NTRUSign.
