2018 ACM Fellows Honored for Pivotal Achievements that Underpin the Digital Age

Computing Professionals Recognized for Transformative Contributions in Areas Including Accessible Voting, Computer Animation, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, and Software

New York, NY, December 5, 2018—ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, has named 56 members ACM Fellows for significant contributions in areas including computer architecture, mobile networks, robotics, and systems security. The accomplishments of the 2018 ACM Fellows underpin the technologies that define the digital age and greatly impact our professional and personal lives. ACM Fellows are composed of an elite group that represents less than 1% of the Association’s global membership.

"In society, when we identify our tech leaders, we often think of men and women in industry who have made technologies pervasive while building major corporations,” said ACM President Cherri M. Pancake. “At the same time, the dedication, collaborative spirit and creativity of the computing professionals who initially conceived and developed these technologies goes unsung. The ACM Fellows program publicly recognizes the people who made key contributions to the technologies we enjoy. Even when their work did not directly result in a specific technology, they have made major theoretical contributions that have advanced the science of computing. We are honored to add a new class of Fellows to ACM’s ranks and we look forward to the guidance and counsel they will provide to our organization."

Underscoring ACM’s global reach, the 2018 Fellows hail from universities, companies and research centers in Finland, Greece, Israel, Sweden, Switzerland, and the US.

The 2018 Fellows have been cited for numerous contributions in areas including accessibility, augmented reality, algorithmic game theory, data mining, storage, software and the World Wide Web.

ACM will formally recognize its 2018 Fellows at the annual Awards Banquet, to be held in San Francisco on June 15, 2019. Additional information about the 2018 ACM Fellows, and the awards event, as well as previous ACM Fellows, is available through the ACM Fellows site.

2018 ACM Fellows

Gul Agha University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign For research in concurrent programming and formal methods, specifically the Actor Model	Jessica K. Hodgins Carnegie Mellon University For contributions to character animation, human simulation, and humanoid robotics
Krste Asanovic University of California, Berkeley For contributions to computer architecture, including the open RISC-V instruction set and Agile hardware	John Hughes Chalmers University For contributions to software testing and functional programming
N Asokan Aalto University For contributions to systems security and privacy, especially of mobile systems	Charles Lee Isbell Georgia Institute of Technology For contributions to interactive machine learning; and for contributions to increasing access and diversity in computing
Paul Barham Google Brain For contributions to the design of operating systems and scalable distributed information processing systems	Kimberly Keeton Hewlett Packard Laboratories For contributions to improving the dependability, manageability, and usability of storage and novel memory systems
Peter L. Bartlett University of California, Berkeley For contributions to the theory of machine learning	Sanjeev Khanna University of Pennsylvania For contributions to approximation algorithms, hardness of approximation, and sublinear algorithms
David Basin ETH Zurich For contributions to Information Security and Formal Methods	Lillian Lee Cornell University For contributions to natural language processing, sentiment analysis, and computational social science
Elizabeth M. Belding University of California, Santa Barbara For contributions to communication in mobile networks and their deployment in developing regions	Tom Leighton Akamai Technologies For his leadership in the establishment of content delivery networks, and his contributions to algorithm design
Rastislav Bodik University of Washington For contributions to program synthesis	Fei-Fei Li Stanford University For contributions in building large knowledge bases for machine learning and visual understanding
Katy Borner Indiana University For contributions to methods and tools that enable users to render data into actionable insights	Michael Littman Brown University For contributions to the design and analysis of sequential decision making algorithms in artificial intelligence
Amy S. Bruckman Georgia Institute of Technology For contributions to collaborative computing and foundational work in Internet research ethics	Huan Liu Arizona State University For contributions in feature selection for data mining and knowledge discovery and in social computing
Jan Camenisch IBM Research/DFINITY Labs Zurich For contributions to privacy-enhancing cryptographic protocols and leadership in their practical realization	Jiebo Luo University of Rochester For contributions to multimedia content analysis and social multimedia informatics
Adnan Darwiche University of California, Los Angeles For contributions to the foundations and technology of automated reasoning	Bruce M. Maggs Duke University For contributions to the development of content distribution networks and the theory of computer networks
Andre M. Dehon University of Pennsylvania For contributions to architecture exploration and design automation of spatially programmable computing fabrics	Bangalore S. Manjunath University of California, Santa Barbara For contributions to image search and retrieval with applications in digital libraries, marine sciences, and biology
Premkumar T. Devanbu University of California, Davis For contributions to using software data and meta-data to improve software tools and processes	Vishal Misra Columbia University and Google For contributions to network traffic modeling, congestion control and Internet economics
Tamal Dey Ohio State University For contributions to computational geometry and computational topology	Frank Mueller North Carolina State University For contributions to the predictability of real-time systems, resilience in high-performance computing and multi-threading techniques
Sandhya Dwarkadas University of Rochester For contributions to shared memory and reconfigurability	David Parkes Harvard University For contributions to computational markets, including novel mechanism design and incentive engineering methods
Steven Feiner Columbia University For contributions to human-computer interaction, virtual and augmented reality, and 3D user interfaces	Gurudatta Parulkar Open Networking Foundation (ONF) For contributions to improving Internet architecture and open source software
Tim Finin University of Maryland, Baltimore County For contributions to theory and practice of knowledge sharing in distributed systems and the World Wide Web	Toniann Pitassi University of Toronto For contributions to research and education in the fields of computational and proof complexity
Thomas Funkhouser Princeton University and Google For research contributions in computer graphics	Lili Qiu University of Texas at Austin For contributions to the design and analysis of wireless network protocols and mobile systems
Minos Garofalakis Athena Research Center and Technical University of Crete For contributions to data processing and analytics, particularly data streaming, approximation and uncertainty	Matthew Roughan University of Adelaide For contributions to Internet measurement and analysis, with applications to network engineering
Mario Gerla University of California, Los Angeles For contributions to design and analysis of mobile wireless protocols for vehicular safety and traffic applications	Amit Sahai University of California, Los Angeles For contributions to cryptography and to the development of indistinguishability obfuscation
Juan E. Gilbert University of Florida For contributions to broadening participation in computing and to accessible voting technologies	Alex Snoeren University of California, San Diego For innovative approaches to measuring, managing and detecting network traffic
Mohammad T. Hajiaghayi University of Maryland, College Park For contributions to the fields of algorithmic graph theory and algorithmic game theory	Gerald Tesauro IBM Research, Yorktown For contributions to reinforcement learning, neural networks, and intelligent autonomous agents
Dan Halperin Tel Aviv University For contributions to robust geometric computing and applications to robotics and automation	Bhavani Thuraisingham University of Texas at Dallas For contributions to methods, tools, and systems for security and privacy of data and applications
Johan Håstad KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm For contributions in circuit complexity, approximability and inapproximability, and foundations of pseudorandomness	Salil Vadhan Harvard University For advancing computational complexity and cryptography, and for promoting public support for theoretical computer science
Tian He University of Minnesota, Twin Cities For contributions to wireless networks, sensing systems, and Internet of things (IoT)	Ellen M. Voorhees National Institute of Standards and Technology For contributions in evaluation of information retrieval, question answering, and other language technologies
Wendi Beth Heinzelman University of Rochester For contributions to wireless communication systems and protocols and leadership in broadening participation in computing	Avi Wigderson Institute for Advanced Study For contributions to theoretical computer science and mathematics
Aaron Hertzmann Adobe Research For contributions to computer graphics, non-photo realistic rendering, computer animation and machine learning	Alec Wolman Microsoft Research For contributions to trusted mobile systems and services

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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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