Jill Pipher is vice president for research at Brown University and Elisha Benjamin Andrews
Professor of Mathematics. She was the founding director of the Institute for Computational and
Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM), a National Science Foundation mathematics
institute, from 2010 to 2016. Pipher obtained her B.A. in mathematics from UCLA in 1979 and her
Ph.D. in mathematics from UCLA in 1985. She was a Dickson Instructor and assistant professor at
the University of Chicago before joining the faculty of Brown as associate professor in 1989.
Pipher’s research areas include harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, and lattice-based
cryptography. She has frequently lectured for both specialist and general audiences at venues in the
U.S. and abroad. In 2014, she was an invited speaker at the International Congress of
Mathematicians. She has published many papers in her areas of expertise and has co-authored an
undergraduate cryptography textbook. She was a co-founder of NTRU Cryptosystems, Inc., acquired
in 2009, and jointly holds four patents related to the NTRU encryption and digital signature
algorithms. Pipher’s professional honors include an NSF postdoctoral fellowship, an NSF
Presidential Young Investigator Award, and an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation fellowship. She 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 Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. She served as
President of the American Mathematical Society from 2019-2021, and was elected in 2022 as a
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a Fellow of the National
Academy of Inventors.
