2018 ACM Distinguished Members Recognized for Revolutionary Contributions
NEW YORK, Nov. 8, 2018 -- ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, has named 49 Distinguished Members for outstanding contributions to the field. The 2018 Distinguished Members are exemplars for their peers, and represent ACM’s worldwide geographic reach, as well as the exciting range of subdisciplines that constitute today’s technology landscape.
“By honoring these individuals, we highlight the professional achievements behind the technologies that have transformed both our daily lives and society in general,” explains ACM President Cherri M. Pancake. “Each Distinguished Member has also demonstrated a commitment to being part of the professional community through his or her longstanding membership in ACM. These computing leaders really epitomize ACM’s mission of ‘advancing computing as a science and a profession.’”
The 2018 ACM Distinguished Members work at leading universities, corporations and research institutions around the world. They represent countries including Australia, Canada, Chile, China, France, Germany, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore, Sweden, the United States and the United Kingdom. These innovators have made contributions in a wide range of technical areas including algorithms, artificial intelligence, computer architecture, computer science education, cybersecurity, graphics, human-computer interaction, and networking.
The ACM Distinguished Member program recognizes up to 10 percent of ACM worldwide membership based on professional experience as well as significant achievements in the computing field.
2018 DISTINGUISHED MEMBERS
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| Eytan Adar
University of Michigan |
Niklas Elmqvist
University of Maryland, College Park |
| For Outstanding Educational Contributions to Computing:
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| Christine Alvarado
University of California, San Diego |
Tim Bell
University of Canterbury |
| Andrew McGettrick
University of Strathclyde |
Lynn Andrea Stein
Olin College of Engineering |
| Chris Stephenson
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| For Outstanding Engineering Contributions to Computing:
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| Kazuaki Ishizaki
IBM Research |
Rajkumar Kettimuthu
Argonne National Laboratory and University of Chicago |
| Stefan Saroiu
Microsoft Research |
Jingdong Wang
Microsoft Research, Beijing |
| For Outstanding Scientific Contributions to Computing:
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| Sven Apel
University of Passau |
Brian P. Bailey
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Rajesh Krishna Balan
Singapore Management University |
Suman Banerjee
University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Emery Berger
University of Massachusetts, Amherst |
Yi Chang
Jilin University |
| Marsha Checkik
University of Toronto |
Lei Chen
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
| Yiran Chen
Duke University |
Tanzeem Choudhury
Cornell University and HealthRhythms Inc. |
| Mats Daniels
Uppsala University |
Xin Luna Dong
Amazon |
| Falko Dressler
Paderborn University |
Natalie Enright Jerger
University of Toronto |
| Yun Fu
Northeastern University |
Deepak Ganesan
University of Massachusetts, Amherst |
| Jennifer Golbeck
University of Maryland |
Indranil Gupta
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Vasant Gajanan Honavar
Pennsylvania State University |
Xiaohua Jia
City University of Hong Kong |
| Judy Kay
The University of Sydney |
David Kotz
Dartmouth College |
| Cliff Lampe
University of Michigan |
Kevin Leyton-Brown
University of British Columbia |
| Chen Li
University of California, Irvine |
Feifei Li
University of Utah |
| Gonzalo Navarro
University of Chile |
Srihari Nelakuditi
University of South Carolina |
| Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos
Queen’s University Belfast |
Tetsuya Sakai
Waseda University |
| Xipeng Shen
North Carolina State University |
Ram Duvvuru Sriram
US National Institute of Standards and Technology |
| Karthikeyan Sundaresan
NEC Laboratories America |
Jaime Teevan
Microsoft |
| Renata Teixeira
Inria |
Merrill Warkentin
Mississippi State University |
| Danfeng (Daphne) Yao
Virginia Tech |
Yizhou Yu
The University of Hong Kong |
About ACM
ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, is the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society, uniting computing 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 Recognition Program
The ACM Fellows program, initiated in 1993, celebrates the exceptional contributions of the leading members in the computing field. To be selected as an ACM Fellow, a candidate's accomplishments are expected to place him or her among the top 1% of ACM members. These individuals have helped to enlighten researchers, developers, practitioners and end users of information technology throughout the world. The ACM Distinguished Member program, initiated in 2006, recognizes those members with at least 15 years of professional experience who have made significant accomplishments or achieved a significant impact on the computing field. ACM Distinguished Membership recognizes up to 10% of ACM's top members. The ACM Senior Member program, also initiated in 2006, includes members with at least 10 years of professional experience who have demonstrated performance that sets them apart from their peers through technical leadership, technical contributions and professional contributions. ACM Senior Member status recognizes the top 25% of ACM Professional Members. The new ACM Fellows, Distinguished Members, and Senior Members join a list of eminent colleagues to whom ACM and its members look for guidance and leadership in computing and information technology.
Source: ACM
