ACM Names 71 Fellows for Computing Advances that are Driving Innovation

Innovators Honored for Work in Areas Including Algorithms, Education, Cryptography, Security and Privacy, Medical Informatics, and Networks

New York, NY, January 19, 2022—ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, has named 71 members ACM Fellows for wide-ranging and fundamental contributions in areas including algorithms, computer science education, cryptography, data security and privacy, medical informatics, and mobile and networked systems ─ among many other areas. The accomplishments of the 2021 ACM Fellows underpin important innovations that shape the technologies we use every day.

The ACM Fellows program recognizes the top 1% of ACM Members for their outstanding accomplishments in computing and information technology and/or outstanding service to ACM and the larger computing community. Fellows are nominated by their peers, with nominations reviewed by a distinguished selection committee.

“Computing professionals have brought about leapfrog advances in how we live, work, and play,” said ACM President Gabriele Kotsis. “New technologies are the result of skillfully combining the individual contributions of numerous men and women, often building upon diverse contributions that have emerged over decades. But technological progress would not be possible without the essential building blocks of individual contributors. The ACM Fellows program honors the creativity and hard work of ACM members whose specific accomplishments make broader advances possible. In announcing a new class of Fellows each year, we celebrate the impact ACM Fellows make, as well as the many technical areas of computing in which they work.”

In keeping with ACM’s global reach, the 2021 Fellows represent universities, corporations, and research centers in Belgium, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Israel, Italy, and the United States.

The contributions of the 2021 Fellows run the gamut of the computing field―including cloud database systems, deep learning acceleration, high performance computing, robotics, and theoretical computer science ─ to name a few.

Additional information about the 2021 ACM Fellows, as well as previously named ACM Fellows, is available through the ACM Fellows website.

2021 ACM Fellows

Leonard Adleman Retired For contributions to making public-key cryptography useful in practice	Dale A. Miller Inria Saclay For contributions to proof theory and computational logic
David A. Bader New Jersey Institute of Technology For contributions to high-performance computing systems, graph analytics, and technical leadership in parallel computing	Elchanan Mossel MIT For contributions to theoretical computer science and inference
Meenakshi Balakrishnan Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi For contributions to system-level design, embedded systems and assistive technologies for the visually impaired	Bernhard Nebel Albert-Ludwigs Universität For contributions to knowledge representation and reasoning, automatic planning, and their applications in robotics
Mark Braverman Princeton University For contributions to computational complexity, information theory, and algorithmic mechanism design	Nikolaj Bjorner Microsoft Research For contributions to SMT solvers and network verification
Linda Jean Camp Indiana University For contributions to computer security and e-crime measures	Rafail Ostrovsky UCLA For contributions to the foundations of cryptography
Edward Y. Chang Stanford University For contributions to scalable machine learning and healthcare	Joel Ouaknine Max Planck Institute for Software Systems For contributions to algorithmic analysis of dynamical systems
Tanzeem Choudhury Cornell Tech, Optum Labs (UnitedHealth Group) For contributions to mobile systems for behavioral sensing and health interventions	David Z. Pan The University of Texas at Austin For contributions to electronic design automation, including design for manufacturing and physical design
Daniel Cohen-Or Tel Aviv University For contributions to computer graphics, geometry processing, and visual computing	Rosalind W. Picard MIT Media Lab For contributions to physiological signal sensing for individual health and wellbeing
Gautam Das University of Texas at Arlington For contributions to database search and graph algorithms	Shaz Qadeer Novi, Meta For contributions to software verification, software testing, and programming languages
Anind Dey Information School, University of Washington For contributions to ubiquitous computing and large-scale behavioral studies	Glenn Ricart US Ignite For leadership in creating advanced research infrastructure, including the first Internet interconnection point
Lieven Eeckhout Ghent University For contributions in computer architecture performance analysis and modeling	Tajana Rosing University of California at San Diego For contributions to power, thermal, and reliability management
Martín Farach-Colton Rutgers University For contributions to data structures for biocomputing and big data	Robert B. Ross Argonne National Laboratory For contributions to high-performance computing in storage and parallel I/O
Amos Fiat Tel Aviv University For contributions to cryptography, online algorithms, and algorithmic game theory	Szymon Rusinkiewicz Princeton University For contributions to acquisition, representation, analysis, rendering, and fabrication of 3D models
Hubertus Franke IBM Research For contributions to the communication, concurrency and resource control in parallel systems	Pierangela Samarati Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy For contributions to data security and privacy
Batya Friedman University of Washington For contributions to human values in the technical design process	Sunita Sarawagi IIT Bombay For contributions to statistical machine learning for information analysis, extraction, and integration
Evgeniy Gabrilovich Google For contributions to the acquisition, representation, and dissemination of web-knowledge with applications to the medical domain	Bernt Schiele MPI for Informatics / Saarland University For contributions to large-scale object recognition, human detection, and pose estimation
Judith Gal-Ezer Open University of Israel For contributions to research and implementation in computer science education	Mubarak Ali Shah University of Central Florida For contributions to human action recognition in video and leadership for undergraduate research experience
Deepak Ganesan University of Massachusetts Amherst For contributions to ultra-low power wireless sensing systems	Alla Sheffer University of British Columbia For contributions to geometry processing, mesh parameterization, and perception-driven shape analysis and modeling
Anupam Gupta Carnegie Mellon University For contributions to approximation algorithms, online algorithms, stochastic algorithms. and metric embeddings	Munindar P. Singh North Carolina State University For contributions to artificial intelligence and multiagent systems and their applications in service-oriented computing and sociotechnical systems
Zygmunt J. Haas University of Texas at Dallas For contributions to communication and security protocols for ad hoc and sensor networks.	Aravinda Prasad Sistla University of Illinois Chicago For contributions to verifying concurrent programs, probabilistic systems, security, and database systems
Elad Hazan Princeton University For contributions to efficient algorithms for convex and nonconvex optimization	Scott Smolka Stony Brook University For contributions in process algebra, model checking, and runtime verification
Xiaobo Sharon Hu University of Notre Dame For contributions to the design of power-constrained and real-time embedded systems	Jie Tang Tsinghua University For contributions to information and social network mining
Paola Inverardi University of L'Aquila For contributions to software architecture	Mark Tehranipoor University of Florida For contributions to microelectronics security and trust
Zachary Ives University of Pennsylvania For contributions to data integration, sharing, and management for scientific applications	Luca Trevisan Bocconi University For contributions to complexity theory and combinatorial optimization
Sushil Jajodia George Mason University For contributions to cyber security, data protection, and privacy	Wenping Wang Texas A&M University For contributions to geometric modeling and computer graphics
Ranjit Jhala University of San Diego, California For contributions to software verification	Brent Waters University of Texas Austin & NTT Research For contributions to cryptography
David R. Kaeli Northeastern University For contributions to computer architecture and compilers	Ryen W. White Microsoft Research For contributions to information retrieval, human-computer interaction, and computational health
Jonathan Katz University of Maryland For contributions to cryptographic protocol design and cryptography education	Jacob O.Wobbrock University of Washington For contributions to human-computer interaction and accessible computing
Robert Kleinberg Cornell University For contributions to online learning and decision problems	Tao Xie Peking University For contributions to software testing and analytics
Thomas Lengauer MPI for Informatics / Saarland University For contributions to bioinformatics and medical informatics	Ming-Hsuan Yang University of California Merced, Google, Yonsei University For contributions to visual tracking, face processing, and low-level vision
Hai “Helen” Li Duke University For contributions to neuromorphic computing and deep-learning acceleration	Mohammed Zaki Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute For contributions to data mining algorithms and foundations
Feifei Li Alibaba Cloud For contributions to query processing and optimization and to cloud database systems	Ben Yanbin Zhao University of Chicago For contributions to peer-to-peer systems and online social networks
Ninghui Li Purdue University For contributions to data privacy, access control, and trust management	Lin Zhong Yale University For contributions to mobile and network systems
Tie-Yan Liu Microsoft Research Asia For contributions to machine learning algorithms and their applications	Shlomo Zilberstein University of Massachusetts at Amherst For contributions to automated planning, resource-bounded reasoning, and multi-agent systems
Steve Marschner Cornell University For contributions to modeling the appearance of physical materials	Thomas Zimmermann Microsoft Research For contributions to mining software repositories and defect prediction
Matthew T. Mason Carnegie Mellon University For contributions to robotic manipulation and manipulation path planning

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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