Jeanne VanBriesen

VanBriesen was born in Pennsylvania. She was a student at Northwestern University, where she first majored in chemistry and then civil engineering.[1] Her doctoral research considered the computational simulation of biogeochemical processes in mixed waste systems.[2]

VanBriesen worked as a high school teacher at Evanston Township High School.[3] She joined the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University in 1999, where she directs the Center for Water Quality in Urban Environmental Systems.[4] Her research considers the sustainability of urban water systems and water cycles in the built environment.[4]

In 2021, VanBriesen was appointed head of the National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental and Transport Systems.[5]

• 2007 Pennsylvania Water Environment Association Professional Research Award[6]
• 2009 American Society of Civil Engineers Professor of the Year[6]
• 2009 West Chester East High School Hall of Fame[7]
• 2009 McGraw-Hill/ AEESP Award for Outstanding Teaching[8]
• 2010 Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors Distinguished Service Award
• 2011 National Academy of Engineering Armstrong Endowment for Young Engineers Gilbreth Lectureship[9]
• 2015 American Society of Civil Engineers Margaret Petersen Award[10]
• 2015 Carnegie Science Center Environmental Award[11]
• 2015 Carnegie Mellon University Barbara Lazarus Award[12]
• 2016 Elected Fellow of the Environmental and Water Resources Institute[13]
• 2016 Achievement Rewards for College Scientists Alumni Hall of Fame[14]
• 2018 Elected Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers[15]
• 2019 Elected Fellow of the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors[16]
• 2019 PA AWWA Special Recognition Award[17]
• 2019 SIGKDD 2019 Test-of-Time paper award[18]
• 2022 Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science[19]

• Jure Leskovec; Andreas Krause; Carlos Guestrin; Christos Faloutsos; Jeanne VanBriesen; Natalie Glance (2007), Cost-effective outbreak detection in networks, doi:10.1145/1281192.1281239, Wikidata Q59551665
• Avi Ostfeld; James G. Uber; Elad Salomons; et al. (November 2008). "The Battle of the Water Sensor Networks (BWSN): A Design Challenge for Engineers and Algorithms". Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management. 134 (6): 556–568. doi:10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9496(2008)134:6(556). ISSN 0733-9496. Wikidata Q58897775.
• Andreas Krause; Jure Leskovec; Carlos Guestrin; Jeanne VanBriesen; Christos Faloutsos (November 2008). "Efficient Sensor Placement Optimization for Securing Large Water Distribution Networks". Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management. 134 (6): 516–526. doi:10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9496(2008)134:6(516). ISSN 0733-9496. Wikidata Q60309442.