Bio & CV
Short Biography
Tiffani L. Williams is a Teaching Professor and iCAN Director in the Siebel School of Computing and Data Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prior to joining Illinois, she was the Director of Computer Science Programs and Professor of the Practice at Northeastern University-Charlotte, and prior to that, she was an assistant and associate professor (tenured) in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University.
Tiffani’s honors include an Alfred P. Sloan Postdoctoral Fellowship (2002), an Edward, Frances, and Shirley Daniels Fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (2004), a Denice Denton Emerging Leader ABIE award (2011), a Distinguished Award in Teaching by the Association of Former Students at Texas A&M (2016), and the Grainger College of Engineering’s Award for Sustained Excellence in Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity at Illinois (2024).