2019 ACM Fellows Recognized for Far-Reaching Accomplishments that Define the Digital Age

Computing Professionals Honored for Foundational Work in Diverse Areas

New York, NY, December 11, 2019—ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, has named 58 members ACM Fellows for wide-ranging and fundamental contributions in areas including artificial intelligence, cloud computing, combating cybercrime, quantum computing and wireless networking. The accomplishments of the 2019 ACM Fellows underpin the technologies that define the digital age and greatly impact our professional and personal lives. ACM Fellows comprise an elite group that represents less than 1% of the Association’s global membership.

"Computing technology has had a tremendous impact in shaping how we live and work today,” said ACM President Cherri M. Pancake in announcing the 2019 ACM Fellows. “All of the technologies that directly or indirectly influence us are the result of countless hours of collaborative and/or individual work, as well as creative inspiration and, at times, informed risk-taking. Each year, we look forward to welcoming some of the most outstanding individuals as Fellows. The ACM Fellows program is a cornerstone of our overall recognition effort. In highlighting the accomplishments of the ACM Fellows, we hope to give credit where it is due, while also educating the public about the extraordinary array of areas in which computing professionals work."

Underscoring ACM’s global reach, the 2019 Fellows hail from universities, companies and research centers in Australia, Canada, China, Egypt, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Switzerland, and the United States.

The contributions of the 2019 Fellows run the gamut of the many sub-disciplines of the computing field―including artificial intelligence, cloud computing, computer graphics, computational biology, data science, security and privacy, software engineering, quantum computing, and web science, to name a few.

Additional information about the 2019 ACM Fellows, as well as previously named ACM Fellows, is available through the ACM Fellows site.

2019 ACM Fellows

Scott J. Aaronson University of Texas For contributions to quantum computing and computational complexity	Songwu Lu University of California, Los Angeles For helping create a more resilient and performant cellular network
Tarek F. Abdelzaher University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign For interdisciplinary contributions that bridge cyber-physical systems, social sensing, real-time computing, and control	Wendy Elizabeth Mackay Inria For contributions to human-computer interaction, mixed reality and participatory design, and leadership in ACM SIGCHI
Saman Amarasinghe Massachusetts Institute of Technology For contributions to high performance computing on modern hardware platforms, domain-specific languages, and compilation techniques	Diana Marculescu University of Texas at Austin For contributions to the design and optimization of energy-aware computing systems
Kavita Bala Cornell University For contributions to rendering and scene understanding	Sheila McIlraith University of Toronto For contributions to knowledge representation and its applications to automated planning and semantic web services
Magdalena Balazinska University of Washington For contributions to scalable distributed data systems	Rada Mihalcea University of Michigan For contributions to natural language processing, with innovations in data-driven and graph-based language processing
Paul Beame University of Washington For contributions in computational and proof complexity and their applications, and for outstanding service	Robin R. Murphy Texas A&M University For contributions in founding and advancing the field of computing for disasters and robotics
Emery D. Berger University of Massachusetts Amherst For contributions in memory management and programming language implementation	Marc Najork Google For contributions to web search and web science
Ronald F. Boisvert National Institute of Standards and Technology For contributions to mathematical software and service to the profession	Jason Nieh Columbia University For contributions to operating systems, virtualization, and computer science education
Christian Cachin University of Bern For contributions to secure distributed computing and cryptographic protocols	Hanspeter Pfister Harvard University For contributions to volume rendering, visualization, computer graphics, and computer vision applications
Brad Calder Google For contributions to cloud storage, processor simulation, replay, and feedback-directed optimization of systems and applications	Timothy M. Pinkston University of Southern California For contributions to interconnection network routing algorithms and architectures, and leadership in expanding computing research
Diego Calvanese Free University of Bozen-Bolzano For contributions to description logics and their applications in data management and software engineering	Mihai Pop University of Maryland, College Park For contributions to computational biology, algorithms, and software for DNA sequence analysis and sequence assembly
Srdjan Capkun Swiss Federal Polytechnic, Zurich For contributions to systems and wireless network security	Andreas Reuter Heidelberg University/Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation For contributions to database concurrency control and for service to the community
Claire Cardie Cornell University For contributions to natural language processing, including coreference resolution, information and opinion extraction	Jeffrey S. Rosenschein Hebrew University For contributions to multi-agent systems, in particular, the use of game theory in multi-agent systems
Timothy M. Chan University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign For contributions to computational geometry, algorithms, and data structures	Srinivasan Seshan Carnegie Mellon University For contributions to computer networking, mobile computing and wireless communications
Kanianthra Mani Chandy California Institute of Technology For contributions to queueing networks, performance analysis, distributed and parallel programming, and distributed simulation	Prashant J. Shenoy University of Massachusetts Amherst For contributions to the modeling and design of distributed systems
Xilin Chen Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences For contributions to face and sign language recognition and multimedia systems	Peter W. Shor Massachusetts Institute of Technology For contributions to quantum computing, information theory, and randomized algorithms
Elizabeth F. Churchill Google For contributions to human-computer interaction and service to ACM	Mona Singh Princeton University For contributions to computational biology, spearheading algorithmic and machine learning approaches for characterizing proteins and their interactions
Philip R. Cohen Monash University For contributions to the theory and practice of multi-agent systems, human-computer dialogue, and multimodal interaction	Ramesh K. Sitaraman University of Massachusetts Amherst For contributions to content delivery networks, distributed systems, and scalable Internet services
Vincent Conitzer Duke University For contributions to game theory, social choice theory, and mechanism design	Dawn Song University of California, Berkeley For contributions to security and privacy
Noshir Contractor Northwestern University For contributions to advances in computational social science, network science and web science	Salvatore J. Stolfo Columbia University For contributions to machine-learning-based cybersecurity and parallel hardware for database inference systems
Matthew B. Dwyer University of Virginia For contributions to the specification and analysis of software	Dacheng Tao The University of Sydney For contributions to representation learning and its applications
Elena Ferrari University of Insubria For contributions to security and privacy of data and social network systems	Moshe Tennenholtz Technion For contributions to AI and algorithmic game theory
Michael J. Freedman Princeton University For contributions to robust distributed systems for the modern cloud	Giovanni Vigna University of California, Santa Barbara For contributions to improving the security of the Internet and combating cybercrime
Deborah Frincke US National Security Agency For contributions in education, the practice of research, and the leadership of cybersecurity	Nisheeth K. Vishnoi Yale University For contributions to theoretical computer science and its connections with mathematics, sciences, and social sciences
Lise Getoor University of California, Santa Cruz For contributions to machine learning, reasoning under uncertainty, and responsible data science	Darrell Whitley Colorado State University For technical and professional leadership in the field of genetic and evolutionary computation
Maria L. Gini University of Minnesota For contributions to robotics and multi-agent systems and a lifelong commitment to diversity in computing	Yuan Xie University of California, Santa Barbara For contributions to the design techniques and tools for the implementation and evaluation of computer architectures
Subbarao Kambhampati Arizona State University For contributions to automated planning and human-aware AI systems and leadership within the field	Moustafa Amin Youssef Alexandria University For contributions to location tracking algorithms
Tamara G. Kolda Sandia National Laboratories For innovations in algorithms for tensor decompositions, contributions to data science, and community leadership	Carlo A. Zaniolo University of California, Los Angeles For contributions to the theory and practice of data and knowledge-base systems
Xiang-Yang Li University of Science and Technology of China For contributions to the design, analysis and optimization of IoT and mobile systems	Lidong Zhou Microsoft Research Asia For contributions to trustworthy distributed computing and to systems research and education in China

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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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