Association for Computing Machinery Selects 71 Professionals for Outstanding Achievements

, /PRNewswire/ – ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, has named 71 new Fellows. ACM Fellows are registered members of the society and were selected by their peers for achieving remarkable results through their technical innovations and/or service to the field. This year’s honorees hail from 14 countries and were chosen from among ACM’s global membership of more than 100,000 computing professionals.

"These men and women represent the top 1% of professionals in our association," explained ACM President Yannis Ioannidis. "I personally enjoy reviewing the list of achievements of the new Fellows because it offers a snapshot of what’s happening in our field at the moment. This year, for example, we are honoring members working in well-established disciplines such as computer architecture and software engineering, alongside innovators in emerging disciplines like swarm intelligence or scene recognition. As we congratulate the new Fellows for their accomplishments, we hope that their work will also serve as an inspiration to the next generation. We especially encourage those who are not yet ACM members to join us and become part of a vibrant global community."

The 2025 ACM Fellows work at leading universities, corporations, and research institutions in Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. This year’s Fellows are cited for contributions in a wide range of computing research areas including AI for healthcare, computer graphics, data management, electronic mail, human-computer interaction, mobile computing, networked systems, robotics, security, sustainability, and numerous other areas.

ACM Fellows serve as ambassadors for the organization and are often called upon to offer their expertise to the media, public officials, and industry leaders. The 2025 ACM Fellows will be formally recognized during an awards banquet on June 13 in San Francisco.

2025 ACM Fellows

**Eytan Adar ***University of Michigan *For research in data mining, data visualization, and social computing.

**Gail-Joon Ahn ***Arizona State University *For contributions to the foundations and practical applications of information and systems security, including formal models and policy frameworks.

**Eric Allman ***NA *For the development of electronic mail.

**Sven Apel ***Saarland University *For theories and methods that empower humans to comprehend, construct, and optimize software systems.

**Lujo Bauer ***Carnegie Mellon University *For contributions to access control, usable security and privacy, and the security of machine learning.

**Angela Bonifati ***Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 *For contributions to the foundations graph databases and data integration.

**Rajkumar Buyya **The University of Melbourne For research contributions to cost and energy-efficient resource management and scheduling systems for cloud computing.

**George Candea ***EPFL *For contributions to dependable systems blending operating systems, formal methods, and machine virtualization

**Pei Cao ***YouTube *For contributions to web caching, search engine efficiency, and information quality.

**Franck Cappello ***Argonne National Laboratory *For contributions to parallel/distributed computing, resilience, and scientific data reduction.

**Luca P. Carloni ***Columbia University *For contributions to the design of system-on-chip architectures and heterogeneous computing platforms.

**Sheelagh Carpendale **Simon Fraser University For contributions to expanding the diversity of data comprehension through innovative interactive visualizations.

**Swarat Chaudhuri **University of Texas, Austin For the development of tools for reliable systems, via approaches connecting formal methods and machine learning.

**Baoquan Chen ***Peking University *For contributions to large-scale scene reconstruction, discrete geometry processing, and shape design for manufacturing.

Deming Chen* University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign* For contributions to reconfigurable computing, including synthesis algorithms and customizable AI accelerator design methodologies.

**Kwang-Ting Cheng ***Hong Kong University of Science and Technology *For contributions to design automation and software-hardware co-design of electronic circuits and computing systems.

**Cristina Conati ***University of British Columbia *For contributions to research in Human-AI interaction and AI-driven personalization.

**Marco Dorigo ***Universite Libre de Bruxelles *For establishing swarm-intelligence as a research field.

**George Drettakis ***INRIA *For contributions to computer graphics, image based rendering, and visual computing.

**Nandita Dukkipati ***Google *For contributions to congestion control, transport performance, and end-host network stacks.

Javier Esparza *TU Munich *For contributions to the theory of program verification and concurrent systems.

**Paolo Ferragina ***Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa *For contributions to data structures and algorithms for efficient search and data compression.

**Yun Raymond Fu ***Northeastern University *For contributions to representation learning, computer vision, face and gesture recognition.

**Michael L Gleicher ***University of Madison at Wisconsin *For contributions to graphics, multimedia, visualization, and robotics.

**Wolfgang Heidrich **King Abdullah University of Science and Technology For contributions to computational photography and displays, and to high dynamic range imaging and display.

**Steve Hodges ***Lancaster University *For contributions to interactive device and systems research resulting in widely adopted impactful products.

**Zi Helen Huang ***University of Queensland, Australia *For contributions to large-scale multimedia content understanding, indexing and retrieval.

**Odest Chadwicke Jenkins ***University of Michigan *For contributions to robot learning and broadening participation in robotics and AI.

**Jiaya Jia ***HKUST *For contributions to segmentation, scene parsing and texture analysis in computer vision.

**Xiaohua Jia ***City University of Hong Kong *For contributions to the advancement of data security and distributed computing systems.

**Hai Jin ***Huazhong University of Science and Technology *For contributions to efficient data-centric processing, memory management, and distributed system architectures.

**Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi ***National Institute of Informatics and The University of Tokyo *For his contributions to graph theory, graph algorithms, and their applications.

**Aggelos Kiayias ***Universtity of Edinburgh *For contributions to the principles and practice of cyber security and cryptography.

**Tadayoshi Kohno **Georgetown University For leadership in cybersecurity for emerging technologies, security ethics, and sociotechnical security.

**Wolfgang Lehner ***Technische Universitat Dresden/ Aalborg University *For contributions to architectures of main-memory database management systems.

**Jian Ma ***Carnegie Mellon University *For contributions to computational biology algorithms and machine learning.

**Ratul Mahajan ***University of Washington *For contributions to network verification and network control systems and their transfer to industrial practice.

**Athina Markopoulou ***UC Irvine *For contributions to internet measurement and privacy enhancing technologies.

**Nenad Medvidovic ***University of Southern California *For contributions to the foundations of software architectures and their application to software engineering.

**Tao Mei ***HiDream.ai *For contributions to multimedia analysis, retrieval, and applications.

**Tommaso Melodia ***Northeastern University *For contributions to open radio access network architectures and AI-native wireless networks.

**Dejan S Milojicic ***Hewlett-Packard Labs *For contributions to software and hardware architectures of distributed systems, from high performance computing to cloud computing.

**Alistair M Moffat ***University of Melbourne *For contributions to the implementation and evaluation of search engines.

**Mohamed F Mokbel ***University of Minnesota *For contributions in building scalable spatially-aware systems.

**Peter Mueller ***ETH Zurich *For contributions to automated, modular program verification.

**Madanlal Musuvathi ***Microsoft Research *For the development of methods in concurrency verification and testing, and machine learning systems design.

**Noam Nisan ***Hebrew University *For contributions to complexity theory, and for pioneering the field of economics and computation.

**Alessandro Orso ***University of Georgia *For contributions in developing novel and impactful techniques for software testing and debugging.

**Themis Palpanas ***Université Paris Cité *For contributions to time-series/data-series/vector indexing and similarity-search, anomaly detection, and entity resolution.

**Denys Poshyvanyk ***William & Mary *For the development of deep learning and software analytics methods that transformed software engineering research and practice.

**Ariel Procaccia ***Harvard University *For contributions to AI, algorithms, and society, including foundational work and practical impact.

**Theodore Rappaport ***New York University *For research contributions in wireless networks.

**Sylvia Ratnasamy **UC Berkeley For contributions to networks and networked systems.

**Oded Regev ***NYU *For contributions to computational complexity, lattice-based cryptography, and quantum computing.

**Cynthia Rudin ***Duke University *For contributions to and leadership in interpretable machine learning and societal applications.

**Natarajan Shankar ***SRI International *For contributions in automated reasoning, mechanized metatheory, formalized mathematics, formal methods, and system assurance.

**Yan Solihin ***University of Central Florida *For contributions to shared cache architecture and trusted execution environment design.

**Kate Starbird **University of Washington For contributions to understanding and improving information ecosystems, including during crisis events and addressing misinformation.

**Gookwon Edward Suh ***Nvidia and Cornell University *For contributions to the development of secure hardware circuits and processors.

**Kian-Lee Tan ***National University of Singapore *For contributions to query optimization and processing for advanced database applications.

**Hanghang Tong ***University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign *For contributions to the theories, algorithms, and applications of large-scale graph mining.

**Antonio Torralba ***MIT *For contributions to computer vision, including novel datasets, scene recognition and context understanding.

**Stephanie Weirich ***University of Pennsylvania *For contributions to static type systems and mechanized mathematics of programming languages.

**Adam Wierman ***California Institute of Technology *For contributions to online algorithms, scheduling theory, and applications to sustainable computing.

**Rebecca N. Wright ***Barnard College *For contributions to security and privacy, and for leadership in computing research and education.

**Hui Xiong ***The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) *For research contributions to the advancement of AI and mobile computing.

**Li Xiong ***Emory University *For contributions to static type systems and mechanized mathematics of programming languages.

**Junfeng Yang ***Columbia University *For leadership and contributions to trustworthy software and AI systems.

**Ke Yi ***Hong Kong University of Science and Technology *For contributions to the theory and practice of query processing.

**Yu Zheng ***Jingdong Technology Inc. *For contributions to spatio-temporal data mining and urban computing.

**Jun Zhu ***Tsinghua University *For contributions to the theory and methods of probabilistic machine learning.

**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.

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.

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