Maggie Cheng

{{short description|Applied mathematician, computer scientist, and network scientist}}

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{{Use mdy dates|cs1-dates=ly|date=October 2020}}{{Use list-defined references|date=October 2020}}Maggie Xiaoyan Cheng is an applied mathematician and computer scientist who works as a professor of applied mathematics at the Illinois Institute of Technology, where she directs the Center for Interdisciplinary Scientific Computation. Her research interests include cyber security and Machine Learning.{{citation|url=https://www.iit.edu/directory/people/maggie-cheng|title=Maggie Cheng|work=Directory|publisher=Illinois Institute of Technology|accessdate=2020-11-04}}

Education and career

Cheng has a bachelor's and master's degree from the Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics.{{citation|url=http://math.iit.edu/~mcheng8/ChengCV.pdf|title=Curriculum vitae|accessdate=2020-11-04}} She completed a Ph.D. in computer science in 2003 from the University of Minnesota.{{citation|url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/author/37086261748|title=Maggie X. Cheng|work=IEEE Xplore|publisher=IEEE|accessdate=2020-11-04}}

After completing her doctorate, she became an assistant professor of computer science at the Missouri University of Science and Technology. She moved to the Martin Tuchman School of Management of the New Jersey Institute of Technology in 2016,{{r|cv}} and moved to the Illinois Institute of Technology in 2018,{{citation|url=https://today.iit.edu/the-department-of-applied-mathematics-welcomes-two-new-faculty-members/|title=Department of Applied Mathematics Welcomes Two New Faculty Members|date=November 1, 2018|work=Illinois Tech Today|accessdate=2020-11-04}} and she was promoted to full professor in 2020.{{r|cv}}