2023 ACM Fellows Celebrated for Contributions to Computing That Underpin Our Daily Lives

Members of Global Society Hailed for Work Including Advances to AI Technologies, the World Wide Web, Graphics, Cybersecurity, Mobile Computing, and Software

New York, NY, January 24, 2024 – ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, has named 68 Fellows for transformative contributions to computing science and technology. All the 2023 inductees are longstanding ACM Members who were selected by their peers for groundbreaking innovations that have improved how we live, work, and play.

“The announcement each year that a new class of ACM Fellows has been selected is met with great excitement,” said ACM President Yannis Ioannidis. “ACM is proud to include nearly 110,000 computing professionals in our ranks and ACM Fellows represent just 1% of our entire global membership. This year’s inductees include the inventor of the World Wide Web,the “godfathers of AI, and other colleagues whose contributions have all been important building blocks in forming the digital society that shapes our modern world.

In keeping with ACM’s global reach, the 2023 Fellows represent universities, corporations, and research centers in Canada, China, Germany, India, Israel, Norway, Singapore, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The contributions of the 2023 Fellows run the gamut of the computing field―including algorithm design, computer graphics, cybersecurity, energy-efficient computing, mobile computing, software analytics, and web search, to name a few.

Additional information about the 2023 ACM Fellows, as well as previously named ACM Fellows, is available through the ACM Fellows website.

2023 ACM FELLOWS
 

Aditya Akella

University of Texas

 

For contributions that improve the performance, efficiency, and robustness of cluster computing

Michael Backes

CISPA

For contributions to information security and privacy

 

Vineet Bafna

University of California, San Diego

For contributions to the theory, design, and implementation of bioinformatics algorithms

 

Yoshua Bengio

Mila, Université de Montréal 

For conceptual and engineering breakthroughs that have made deep neural networks a critical component of computing

 

Maria-Florina Balcan
Carnegie Mellon University

 

For contributions to the foundations of machine learning and its applications to algorithmic economics and algorithm design

 

Nikhil Bansal

University of Michigan

 

For contributions to the foundations of approximate and online algorithms, and their connections to mathematics

 

Mikhail Belkin

University of California San Diego

 

For contributions to modern machine learning theory and algorithms

Shai Ben-David

University of Waterloo

 

For contributions to and research leadership in machine learning theory

 

Vaughn Timothy Betz

University of Toronto

 

For contributions to the architecture and computer-aided design of field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs)

 

Ramon Caceres

Google

 

For contributions to mobile and edge computing

 

Chandra Chekuri

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

 

For contributions to approximation algorithms and submodular optimization

 

Haibo Chen

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

 

For contributions to improving the scalability and security of operating systems and distributed systems

 

Yingying (Jennifer) Chen
Rutgers University

 

For contributions to the design and application of mobile sensing and mobile security systems

 

Kenneth Ward Church
EAI, Northeastern University

For contributions to empirical methods in natural language processing

 

Roger B. Dannenberg

Carnegie Mellon University

 

For contributions to the field of computer science through innovative computer music systems

 

Xin Luna Dong
Meta

 

For contributions to knowledge graph construction and data integration

Rolf Drechsler

University of Bremen

 

For contributions to foundations and applications of formal proof techniques in synthesis, test, and verification

 

Wenliang Du

Syracuse University

 

For contributions to cybersecurity education and research

 

Pradeep Dubey

Intel Corporation

 

For contributions to emerging compute- and data-intensive applications and parallel processing computer architectures

Anja Feldmann

Max Planck Institute and TU Berlin

 

For contributions to the data-driven analysis of operational networks

 

George Fitzmaurice

Autodesk Canada, Inc.

 

For contributions to human-computer interaction and tangible user interfaces

 

Fedor Fomin
University of Bergen

 

For contributions to the development of parameterized complexity and exact exponential algorithms

 

Jeffrey S. Foster

Tufts University

 

For contributions to program analysis and techniques to build more reliable and secure software

 

Jianfeng Gao

Microsoft

 

For contributions to machine learning for web search, natural language processing, and conversational systems

 

Ian Goldberg

University of Waterloo

 

For contributions to the development and deployment of privacy enhancing technologies

 

Sumit Gulwani
Microsoft

 

For contributions to AI-assisted programming for developers, data scientists, end users, and students

 

Zhu Han

University of Houston

 

For contributions to distributed and autonomous management for large-scale communication networks

 

Geoffrey Hinton

University of Toronto

 

For conceptual and engineering breakthroughs that have made deep neural networks a critical component of computing

 

Nicole Immorlica

Microsoft Research

 

For contributions to economics and computation including market design, auctions, and social networks

 

Trent Jaeger

Pennsylvania State University

 

For contributions to research and education for operating systems and software security

 

Kenneth Richard Koedinger

Carnegie Mellon University

 

For the advancement of AI models of human learning and developing intelligent tutors to aid students

 

Andreas Krause
ETH Zurich

 

For contributions to learning-based decision making under uncertainty

 

Christopher Ian Kruegel
University of California Santa Barbara

 

For contributions to systems security, malware detection, and vulnerability analysis

 

H.T. Kung
Harvard University

 

For contributions to computer architecture and concurrency control for parallel computation

 

Yann LeCun
New York University

 

For conceptual and engineering breakthroughs that have made deep neural networks a critical component of computing

 

Tim Berners-Lee
WWW Consortium

 

For inventing the World Wide Web, the first web browser, and the fundamental protocols and algorithms allowing the Web to scale

 

David Lo
Singapore Management University

 

For contributions to synergizing artificial intelligence and software engineering for human-in-the-loop automation and software analytics

 

Wenjing Lou
Virginia Tech

 

For contributions to information and network security

Kwan-Liu Ma
University of California, Davis

For contributions to and leadership in large-scale data visualization research

 

Wei-Ying Ma
Tsinghua University

For leadership and contributions to web search and data mining

Z. Morley Mao
University of Michigan

For contributions to Internet security and performance

 

Deborah McGuinness
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

For contributions to knowledge technologies including ontologies and knowledge graphs

 

Gerard G. Medioni
Amazon

For contributions to computer vision and its consumer facing applications

 

Sharad Mehrotra
University of California, Irvine

For contributions to the fields of data management, multimedia information retrieval, and emergency response

Seffi Naor
Technion—Israel Institute of Technology

For contributions to online, randomized, and approximation algorithms

 

Shrikanth Narayanan
University of Southern California

For contributions to speech, language, multimedia processing, affective computing, and their human-centered applications

 

Natasha Noy
Google Research

For contributions to open data, data discovery, and Semantic Web

 

Corina S Pasareanu
NASA Ames and Carnegie Mellon University

For contributions to the development and application of symbolic execution and compositional verification

 

Massoud Pedram
University of Southern California

For contributions to low power design of VLSI circuits and to energy efficient computing

Anand Raghunathan
Purdue University

For contributions to the design of energy-efficient computing systems

 

Benjamin Raphael
Princeton University

For contributions to computational biology including algorithms in cancer genomics/evolution and biological network analysis

 

Dana Ron
Tel Aviv University

For contributions to sub-linear time approximation algorithms

Tim Roughgarden
Columbia University

For contributions to algorithmic game theory

David Sankoff
University of Ottawa

For contributions to research and leadership in computational biology and bioinformatics

 

Stefan Saroiu
Microsoft

For contributions to memory security and trusted computing

 

Albrecht Schmidt
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

For contributions to human-computer interaction, ubiquitous computing and implicit interaction, and leadership in ACM SIGCHI

 

Björn W. Schuller
Imperial College London,Technical University of Munich

For empirical and theoretical contributions to the development of computer audition, affective computing, and health informatics

 

Phoebe Sengers
Cornell University

For contributions to critically-informed human-computer interaction and design.

Elaine Shi
Carnegie Mellon University

For contributions to the scientific foundation of oblivious computation and decentralized blockchains

 

Noah Snavely
Cornell Tech, Google

For contributions to computer vision and computer graphics

 

Ram D. Sriram
NIST

For contributions in building innovative computational tools and automation techniques in engineering and health care

Steffen Staab
University of Stuttgart, University of Southampton

For contributions to semantic technologies and web science, and distinguished service to the ACM community

 

Alexander Szalay
The Johns Hopkins University

For contributions in systems, big data, open data, and for service to the community

 

Manik Varma
Microsoft Research India

For contributions to machine learning and its applications

XiaoFeng Wang
Indiana University at Bloomington

For contributions to systems security and privacy

 

Kilian Weinberger
Cornell University

For contribution to machine learning and deep learning research

 

Emmett Witchel
The University of Texas at Austin

For contributions to high-performance, concurrent, and secure systems

 

Xing Xie
Microsoft Research Asia

For contributions to spatial data mining and recommendation systems

 

 

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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