Joan Feigenbaum (born 1958 in Brooklyn, New York) is a theoretical computer scientist with a background in mathematics.
She became interested in computers during the Summer Research Program at AT&T's Bell Labs between her junior and senior years.
She then earned a Ph.D. in computer science at Stanford University, under the supervision of Andrew Yao,[3] while working summers at Bell Labs.
Baum was chosen as the child's surname as the greatest common suffix of Feigenbaum and Nussbaum.
She acts as one of the three award-committee members on ACM SIGecom test of time award.