MARGARET MARTONOSI ’86 (2016-22) is the Hugh Trumbull Adams ’35 Professor of Computer Science, Department of Computer Science at Princeton University, where she has been on the faculty since 1994. She currently serves as the Assistant Director for Computer and Information Science and Engineering at the National Science Foundation (NSF), a role she began in 2020. She was also elected to the US National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2020. And in 2021, Martonosi received computer architecture’s highest honor, the ACM/IEEE Eckert-Mauchly Award, for contributions to the design, modeling, and verification of power-efficient computer architecture.

Martonosi’s research interests are centered in computer science and computer engineering – specifically computer architecture and mobile computing, with particular focus on power-efficient systems. Her work has included the development of the Wattch power modeling tool (2000 International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), about 3,000 citations) and the Princeton ZebraNet mobile sensor network project for the design and real-world deployment of zebra-tracking collars in Kenya (2002 International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), about 2,000 citations).

From 2005-07, she served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Princeton’s School of Engineering and Applied Science. And in 2015-16, Martonosi was on sabbatical from Princeton, serving as one of eleven Jefferson Science Fellows at the US State Department, where she worked in the Economics Bureau’s Office of International Communications and Information Policy (CIP). Her research activities have for years made broad inroads into other fields, particularly the impact of technology on public policy for societal development. She is highly committed to promoting and nurturing STEM diversity.

Martonosi is a Fellow of both the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers and the Association for Computer Machinery. She was the 2013 recipient of the Anita Borg Institute Technical Leadership Award, which honors women in computing with both outstanding technical contributions as well as contributions to the support and retention of women in computing. She has also received the 2013 National Center for Women & Information Technology Undergraduate Research Mentoring Award, and in 2010 she was presented with the Princeton University Graduate Mentoring Award. In addition to many archival publications, Martonosi is an inventor on six granted U.S. patents and has co-authored a technical reference book on power-aware computer architecture. She serves on the Board of Directors of the Computing Research Association (CRA).

Martonosi completed her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees at Stanford University and holds a B.S. from Cornell University (1986), all in the field of Electrical Engineering.