[2] She joined the Stanford faculty after postdoctoral research at Carnegie Mellon University.
[4] As a student at Swarthmore, Wootters won an honorable mention for the 2008 Alice T. Schafer Prize of the Association for Women in Mathematics, for undergraduate research on configuration spaces of linkages and stick numbers of knots.
[6] Wootters was one of the inaugural winners of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science Distinguished Dissertation Award, in 2015.
[7] In 2019, she was the recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER Award and a Sloan Research Fellowship.
[1] In 2022, Wootters won the James L. Massey Research & Teaching Award for Young Scholars of the IEEE Information Theory Society.