NEW YORK, Nov. 8, 2018 —  ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, has named 49 Distinguished Members for outstanding contributions to the field.  The 2018 Distinguished Members are exemplars for their peers, and represent ACM’s worldwide geographic reach, as well as the exciting range of subdisciplines that constitute today’s technology landscape.

“By honoring these individuals, we highlight the professional achievements behind the technologies that have transformed both our daily lives and society in general,” explains ACM President Cherri M. Pancake. “Each Distinguished Member has also demonstrated a commitment to being part of the professional community through his or her longstanding membership in ACM. These computing leaders really epitomize ACM’s mission of ‘advancing computing as a science and a profession.’”

The 2018 ACM Distinguished Members work at leading universities, corporations and research institutions around the world. They represent countries including Australia, Canada, Chile, China, France, Germany, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore, Sweden, the United States and the United Kingdom. These innovators have made contributions in a wide range of technical areas including algorithms, artificial intelligence, computer architecture, computer science education, cybersecurity, graphics, human-computer interaction, and networking.

The ACM Distinguished Member program recognizes up to 10 percent of ACM worldwide membership based on professional experience as well as significant achievements in the computing field.

2018 DISTINGUISHED MEMBERS

For Outstanding Contributions to Computing:
Eytan Adar University of Michigan	Niklas Elmqvist University of Maryland, College Park
For Outstanding Educational Contributions to Computing:
Christine Alvarado University of California, San Diego	Tim Bell University of Canterbury
Andrew McGettrick University of Strathclyde	Lynn Andrea Stein Olin College of Engineering
Chris Stephenson Google
For Outstanding Engineering Contributions to Computing:
Kazuaki Ishizaki IBM Research	Rajkumar Kettimuthu Argonne National Laboratory and University of Chicago
Stefan Saroiu Microsoft Research	Jingdong Wang   Microsoft Research, Beijing
For Outstanding Scientific Contributions to Computing:
Sven Apel University of Passau	Brian P. Bailey  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Rajesh Krishna Balan Singapore Management University	Suman Banerjee University of Wisconsin-Madison
Emery Berger University of Massachusetts, Amherst	Yi Chang Jilin University
Marsha Checkik University of Toronto	Lei Chen Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Yiran Chen Duke University	Tanzeem Choudhury Cornell University and HealthRhythms Inc.
Mats Daniels Uppsala University	Xin Luna Dong Amazon
Falko Dressler Paderborn University	Natalie Enright Jerger   University of Toronto
Yun Fu  Northeastern University	Deepak Ganesan University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Jennifer Golbeck  University of Maryland	Indranil Gupta University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Vasant Gajanan Honavar Pennsylvania State University	Xiaohua Jia City University of Hong Kong
Judy Kay The University of Sydney	David Kotz Dartmouth College
Cliff Lampe University of Michigan	Kevin Leyton-Brown University of British Columbia
Chen Li  University of California, Irvine	Feifei Li University of Utah
Gonzalo Navarro  University of Chile	Srihari Nelakuditi University of South Carolina
Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos Queen’s University Belfast	Tetsuya Sakai Waseda University
Xipeng Shen North Carolina State University	Ram Duvvuru Sriram US National Institute of Standards and Technology
Karthikeyan Sundaresan NEC Laboratories America	Jaime Teevan Microsoft
Renata Teixeira Inria	Merrill Warkentin  Mississippi State University
Danfeng (Daphne) Yao  Virginia Tech	Yizhou Yu  The University of Hong Kong

 

About ACM

ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, is the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society, uniting computing educators, researchers and professionals to inspire dialogue, share resources and address the field’s challenges. ACM strengthens the computing profession’s collective voice through strong leadership, promotion of the highest standards, and recognition of technical excellence. ACM supports the professional growth of its members by providing opportunities for life-long learning, career development, and professional networking.

About the ACM Recognition Program

The ACM Fellows program, initiated in 1993, celebrates the exceptional contributions of the leading members in the computing field. To be selected as an ACM Fellow, a candidate’s accomplishments are expected to place him or her among the top 1% of ACM members. These individuals have helped to enlighten researchers, developers, practitioners and end users of information technology throughout the world. The ACM Distinguished Member program, initiated in 2006, recognizes those members with at least 15 years of professional experience who have made significant accomplishments or achieved a significant impact on the computing field. ACM Distinguished Membership recognizes up to 10% of ACM’s top members. The ACM Senior Member program, also initiated in 2006, includes members with at least 10 years of professional experience who have demonstrated performance that sets them apart from their peers through technical leadership, technical contributions and professional contributions. ACM Senior Member status recognizes the top 25% of ACM Professional Members. The new ACM Fellows, Distinguished Members, and Senior Members join a list of eminent colleagues to whom ACM and its members look for guidance and leadership in computing and information technology.

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Source: ACM