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Doris Lee is the CEO and co-founder of Ponder. Doris received her PhD from the UC Berkeley RISE Lab and School of Information in 2021, where she developed tools that help data scientists explore and understand their data. She is the recipient of Forbes 30 under 30 for Enterprise Technology in 2023. Her lectures include "Data Science at Scale Everywhere for Everyone," in which she explores the limitations of these tools and pain points that data scientists encounter when dealing with data at scale.

The ACM Student Research Competition is an internationally recognized venue enabling undergraduate and graduate students to experience the research world, share research results and exchange ideas, rub shoulders with academic and industry luminaries, understand the practical applications of their research and gain recognition.

Meenakshi D’ Souza is a Professor at the International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) in Bangalore, India. Her research interests include formal methods, software testing, model-based development, and automata theory, as well as design and architectures for embedded software. She was elected President of the ACM India Council for a term that runs from July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2026. In her interview, she discusses working towards gender diversity in computing, improving software estimation models, her goals as President of the ACM India Council, and more.

Luciano Baresi is a Professor at Politecnico di Milano. He has published papers in a variety of topics in software engineering. Earlier in his career, he worked in formal approaches for modeling and specification languages, Unified Modeling Language (UML), and the design of web applications. Currently, he is interested in distributed systems, service-based applications, and the different aspects of mobile, self-adaptive, and pervasive software systems. In his interview, he discusses the constraints of cloud infrastructure, the need for software engineering to keep pace with mobile computing, why ACM PACMSE is needed, and more.

ACM offers lifelong learning resources including online books and courses from Skillsoft, TechTalks on the hottest topics in computing and IT, and more.

Encourage your colleagues to join ACM, share the benefits of ACM and receive free gifts for participating. Your support of ACM is critical to our continuing efforts to advance computing as a science and a profession. 

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Learn more about ACM’s commitment to ethical standards: the ACM Code of Ethics, Software Engineering Code of Ethics and Professional Practice, and Committee on Professional Ethics (COPE), which is guiding these and other intiatives.

You can use your technical skills for social good and offer volunteer support on software development projects to organizations who could not otherwise afford it. SocialCoder connects volunteer programmers/software developers with registered charities and helps match them to suitable projects based on their skills, experience, and the causes they care about. Learn more about ACM’s new partnership with SocialCoder, and how you can get involved.

ACM has launched a local events initiative in several major US cities to help computer professionals like you build personal networks of smart technical people nearby. You can share work experiences and insight, discuss new research ideas and provide guidance in finding a job or launching a new venture.