Maggie Cheng facts for kids

Maggie Xiaoyan Cheng is a brilliant scientist who uses math to solve real-world problems and studies how computers work. She is a professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology. There, she leads a special center where different science fields work together using computers. She is very interested in keeping computers safe from attacks, which is called cyber security. She also studies how to teach computers to learn things on their own, known as Machine Learning.

Maggie Cheng's Path to Science

Her School Days

Maggie Cheng studied at the Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in China. She earned her first two university degrees there. Later, she came to the United States. In 2003, she earned her highest university degree, a Ph.D., in computer science from the University of Minnesota.

Teaching and Discovering

After finishing her Ph.D., Maggie Cheng became a university teacher. She started as an assistant professor of computer science at the Missouri University of Science and Technology. In 2016, she moved to the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Then, in 2018, she joined the Illinois Institute of Technology. By 2020, she became a full professor, which is a very senior teaching position at a university.