Maggie Cheng
Maggie Xiaoyan Cheng () is an applied mathematician, computer scientist, and network 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 wireless ad hoc networks and user modeling in computer security. Education and career. Cheng has a bachelor's and master's degree from the Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. She completed a Ph.D. in computer science and engineering in 2003 from the University of Minnesota. Her dissertation, "Resource efficiency in ad hoc wireless networks: problems and solutions", was  supervised by Ding-Zhu Du. 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, and moved again to the Illinois Institute of Technology in 2018, succeeding Fred Hickernell as director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Scientific Computation. There, she was promoted to full professor in 2020.