ACM Recognizes 2017 Fellows for Making Transformative Contributions and Advancing Technology in the Digital Age

Innovators Honored for Seminal Work in Areas Including Artificial Intelligence, Bioinformatics, Computer Graphics, Cloud Computing, and Software Engineering

NEW YORK, NY, December 11, 2017—ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, has named 54 members ACM Fellows for major contributions in areas including database theory, design automation, information retrieval, multimedia computing and network security. The accomplishments of the 2017 ACM Fellows lead to transformations in science and society. Their achievements play a crucial role in the global economy, as well as how we live and work every day.

"To be selected as a Fellow is to join our most renowned member grade and an elite group that represents less than 1 percent of ACM’s overall membership,” explains ACM President Vicki L. Hanson. “The Fellows program allows us to shine a light on landmark contributions to computing, as well as the men and women whose hard work, dedication, and inspiration are responsible for groundbreaking work that improves our lives in so many ways."

Underscoring ACM’s global reach, the 2017 Fellows hail from universities, companies and research centers in Canada, China, Denmark, Germany, Hong Kong, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States.

The 2017 Fellows have been cited for numerous contributions in areas including artificial intelligence, big data, computer architecture, computer graphics, high performance computing, human-computer interaction, sensor networks, and wireless networking.

ACM will formally recognize its 2017 Fellows at the annual Awards Banquet, to be held in San Francisco on June 23, 2018. Additional information about the 2017 ACM Fellows, and the awards event, as well as previous ACM Fellows and award winners, is available on the ACM Awards site.

2017 ACM Fellows

Lars Birkedal Aarhus University For contributions to the semantic and logical foundations of compilers and program verification systems	Gabriel H. Loh Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. For contributions to die-stacking technologies in computer architecture
Edouard Bugnion EPFL For contributions to virtual machines	Tomás Lozano-Pérez Massachusetts Institute of Technology For contributions to robotics, and motion planning, geometric algorithms, and their applications
Margaret Burnett Oregon State University For contributions to end-user software engineering, understanding gender biases in software, and broadening participation in computing	Clifford A. Lynch Coalition for Networked Information For contributions to library automation, information retrieval, scholarly communication, and information policy
Shih-Fu Chang Columbia University For contributions to large-scale multimedia content recognition and multimedia information retrieval	Yi Ma University of California, Berkeley For contributions to theory and application of low-dimensional models for computer vision and pattern recognition
Edith Cohen Google Research For contributions to the design of efficient algorithms for networking and big data	Andrew K. McCallum University of Massachusetts at Amherst For contributions to machine learning with structured data, and innovations in scientific communication
Dorin Comaniciu Siemens Healthcare For contributions to machine intelligence, diagnostic imaging, image-guided interventions, and computer vision	Silvio Micali Massachusetts Institute of Technology For transformative work that laid the complexity-theoretic foundations for the science of cryptography
Susan M. Dray Dray & Associates For co-founding ACM SIGCHI and disseminating exemplary user experience design and evaluation practices worldwide	Andreas Moshovos University of Toronto For contributions to high-performance architecture including memory dependence prediction and snooping coherence
Edward A. Fox Virginia Tech For contributions in information retrieval and digital libraries	Gail C. Murphy The University of British Columbia For contributions to recommenders for software engineering and to program comprehension
Richard M. Fujimoto Georgia Institute of Technology For contributions to parallel and distributed discrete event simulation	Onur Mutlu ETH Zurich For contributions to computer architecture research, especially in memory systems
Shafi Goldwasser Massachusetts Institute of Technology For transformative work that laid the complexity-theoretic foundations for the science of cryptography	Nuria Oliver Vodafone/Data-Pop Alliance For contributions in probabilistic multimodal models of human behavior and uses in intelligent, interactive systems
Carla P. Gomes Cornell University For establishing the field of computational sustainability, and for foundational contributions to artificial intelligence	Balaji Prabhakar Stanford University For developing algorithms and systems for large-scale data center networks and societal networks
Martin Grohe RWTH Aachen University For contributions to logic in computer science, database theory, algorithms, and computational complexity	Tal Rabin IBM Research For contributions to foundations of cryptography, including multi-party computations, signatures, and threshold and proactive protocol design
Aarti Gupta Princeton University For contributions to system analysis and verification techniques and their transfer to industrial practice	K. K. Ramakrishnan University of California, Riverside For contributions to congestion control, operating system support for networks and virtual private networks
Venkatesan Guruswami Carnegie Mellon University For contributions to algorithmic coding theory, pseudorandomness and the complexity of approximate optimization	Ravi Ramamoorthi University of California San Diego For contributions to computer graphics rendering and physics-based computer vision
Dan Gusfield University of California, Davis For contributions to combinatorial optimization and to algorithmic computational biology	Yvonne Rogers University College London For contributions to human-computer interaction and the design of human-centered technology
Gregory D. Hager Johns Hopkins University For contributions to vision-based robotics and to computer-enhanced interventional medicine	Yong Rui Lenovo Group For contributions to image, video and multimedia analysis, understanding and retrieval
Steven Michael Hand Google For contributions to virtual machines and cloud computing	Bernhard Schölkopf Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems For contributions to the theory and practice of machine learning
Mor Harchol-Balter Carnegie Mellon University For contributions to performance modeling and analysis of distributed computing systems	Steven M. Seitz University of Washington, Seattle For contributions to computer vision and computer graphics
Laxmikant Kale University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign For development of new parallel programming techniques and their deployment in high performance computing applications	Michael Sipser Massachusetts Institute of Technology For contributions to computational complexity, particularly randomized computation and circuit complexity
Michael Kass NVIDIA For contributions to computer vision and computer graphics, particularly optimization and simulation	Anand Sivasubramaniam Penn State University For contributions to power management of datacenters and high-end computer systems
Angelos Dennis Keromytis DARPA For contributions to the theory and practice of systems and network security	Mani B. Srivastava University of California, Los Angeles For contributions to sensor networks, mobile personal sensing, and cyber-physical systems
Carl Kesselman University of Southern California For contributions to high performance computing, distributed systems, and scientific data management	Alexander Vardy University of California San Diego For contributions to the theory and practice of error-correcting codes and their study in complexity theory
Edward Knightly Rice University For contributions to multi-user wireless LANs, wireless networks for underserved regions, and cross-layer wireless networking	Geoffrey M. Voelker University of California San Diego For contributions to empirical measurement and analysis in systems, networking and security
Craig Knoblock University of Southern California For contributions to artificial intelligence, semantic web, and semantic data integration	Martin D. F. Wong University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign For contributions to the algorithmic aspects of electronic design automation (EDA)
Insup Lee University of Pennsylvania For theoretical and practical contributions to compositional real-time scheduling and runtime verification	Qiang Yang Hong Kong University of Science and Technology For contributions to artificial intelligence and data mining
Wenke Lee Georgia Institute of Technology For contributions to systems and network security, intrusion and anomaly detection, and malware analysis	ChengXiang Zhai University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign For contributions to information retrieval and text data mining
Li Erran Li Uber Advanced Technologies Group For contributions to the design and analysis of wireless networks, improving architectures, throughput, and analytics	Aidong Zhang State University of New York at Buffalo For contributions to bioinformatics and data mining

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 Fellows Program

The ACM Fellows Program, initiated in 1993, celebrates the exceptional contributions of the leading members in the computing field. These individuals have helped to enlighten researchers, developers, practitioners and end users of information technology throughout the world. The new ACM Fellows join a distinguished list of colleagues to whom ACM and its members look for guidance and leadership in computing and information technology.

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