NEW YORK, Dec. 17, 2020 — ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, has named 64 Distinguished Members for outstanding contributions to the field. All 2020 inductees are longstanding ACM members and were selected by their peers for a range of accomplishments that move the computing field forward.

“The active participation of ACM members, in our organization, and in the field more broadly, is the foundation of a global scientific society,” explains ACM President Gabriele Kotsis. “With the Distinguished Member designation, ACM celebrates specific contributions of these members and their career growth as reflected in a long-term commitment to the field, as well as their collaboration with peers in supporting a global professional association for the benefit of all.”

The 2020 ACM Distinguished Members work at leading universities, corporations and research institutions in Australia, Canada, China, India, Qatar, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, the United Kingdom and the United States. These innovators have made contributions in a wide range of technical areas including data science, mobile and pervasive computing, artificial intelligence, computer science education, computer engineering, graphics, cybersecurity, and networking, among many other areas.

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. To be nominated, a candidate must have at least 15 years of professional experience in the computing field, five years of professional ACM membership in the last 10 years, and have achieved a significant level of accomplishment, or made a significant impact in the field of computing, computer science and/or information technology. In addition, it is expected that a Distinguished Member serves as a mentor and role model, guiding technical career development and contributing to the field beyond the norm.

2020 ACM DISTINGUISHED MEMBERS

 

For Outstanding Educational Contributions to Computing:

Tiffany Barnes North Carolina State University	Deepak Kumar Bryn Mawr College
Barbara J. Ericson University of Michigan

 

For Outstanding Engineering Contributions to Computing:

Eric W. Burger Georgetown University	Qi He LinkedIn
Josiah Dykstra National Security Agency	Anees Shaikh Google

 

For Outstanding Scientific Contributions to Computing:

Nael Abu-Ghazaleh University of California, Riverside	Shuiwang Ji Texas A&M University
Fan Bai General Motors Research	Julie A. Kientz University of Washington
Pavan Balaji Argonne National Laboratory	Yunyao Li IBM Research – Almaden
Jernej Barbic University of Southern California	Xue (Steve) Liu McGill University & Samsung AI Center – Montreal
Michael A. Bender Stony Brook University	Yan Liu University of Southern California
Sourav S. Bhowmick Nanyang Technological University	Alessio Lomuscio Imperial College London
Christian Bird Microsoft Research	Xiaosong Ma Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU
Daniel Boley University of Minnesota	Ashwin Machanavajjhala Duke University
Longbing Cao University of Technology Sydney	Andrew McGregor University of Massachusetts Amherst
Carlos Castillo Universitat Pompeu Fabra	Shahrad Mehrotra University of California, Irvine
Pablo Cesar Centrum Wiskunde en Informatica	Samuel Pratt Midkiff Purdue University
Hao Chen University of California, Davis	Sudip Misra Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
Minghua Chen City University of Hong Kong	Jeffrey Nichols Apple
Albert Mo Kim Cheng University of Houston	Alessandro Orso Georgia Institute of Technology
Wen-Huang Cheng National Chiao Tung University	Panagiotis “Panos” Papadimitratos KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Kevyn Collins-Thompson University of Michigan	Sudeep Pasricha Colorado State University
Cristina Conati University of British Columbia	Aaron Quigley University of New South Wales
Peng Cui Tsinghua University	Abhik Roychoudhury National University of Singapore
Maribel Fernandez King’s College London	Yuanyuan Tian IBM Research – Almaden
Vladimir Filkov University of California, Davis	Hanghang Tong University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jianfeng Gao Microsoft Research	Anil Kumar Vullikanti University of Virginia
Song Guo The Hong Kong Polytechnic University	Yu Wang Temple University
Ashish Gupta Google	De-Nian Yang Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica
Tracy Anne Hammond Texas A& University	Laurence T. Yang St. Francis Xavier University
Gillian R. Hayes University of California, Irvine	Jieping Ye Beike & University of Michigan
Bingsheng He National University of Singapore	Evangeline F.Y. Young The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Sun-Yuan Hsieh National Cheng Kung University	Hongyu Zhang University of Newcastle
Adriana Iamnitchi University of South Florida	Lintao Zhang Microsoft Research Asia

 

About ACM

ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, is the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society, uniting 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