Jill Pipher, Ph.D.

Jill Pipher is the Elisha Benjamin Andrews Professor of Mathematics at Brown University, where she also served as vice president for research from 2017 to 2024. She directed the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics from its founding in 2010 to 2016. Pipher previously served on the scientific advisory board for the Simons Foundation’s Mathematics & Physical Sciences division. From 2019 to 2021, she served as president of the American Mathematical Society.

Pipher’s research focuses on harmonic analysis, partial differential equations and lattice-based cryptography. She obtained her B.A. in mathematics from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1979 and her Ph.D. in mathematics from UCLA in 1985.

Pipher is an inaugural fellow of the American Mathematical Society, served as president of the Association for Women in Mathematics from 2011 to 2013, and was a National Women’s History Month 2013 honoree. In 2015, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 2019, she was elected as a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. She was elected to the National Academy of Inventors in 2022.