Celebrating the 2024 ACM Fellows: Pioneers of Innovation in Computing

Honorees Recognized for Achievements in Various Fields Such as Cybersecurity, Artificial Intelligence, Human-Computer Interaction, Machine Learning, and Programming Languages

NEW YORK, Jan. 22, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, has acknowledged 55 Fellows for their transformative impacts on computing science and technology. All inductees of 2024 are longstanding members of ACM, whose achievements were chosen by their peers for enabling the computing technologies we utilize every day.

“The influence of computing technology has been substantial in shaping contemporary life and work,” stated ACM President Yannis Ioannidis. “The ACM Fellows program celebrates the ingenuity and diligence of ACM members whose notable achievements propel innovation and facilitate broader advancements. By announcing a new class of Fellows annually, we recognize the contributions of some of our community’s trailblazers and underscore the diverse technical domains within computing in which they operate.”

In accordance with ACM’s international reach, the 2024 Fellows represent educational institutions, corporations, and research establishments from Australia, Canada, Chile, China, Denmark, Germany, India, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, Singapore, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The contributions of the 2024 Fellows span an extensive range within the computing sector, including computer graphics, cybersecurity, human-computer interaction, data management, machine learning, artificial intelligence, algorithms, visualization, and numerous others.

ACM will formally honor the 2024 Fellows at its annual Awards Banquet on June 14, 2025, in San Francisco, California. Further details about the 2024 ACM Fellows, as well as previously recognized ACM Fellows, can be found through the ACM Fellows website.

2024 ACM Fellows

Marc Alexa, Technische Universität Berlin
For contributions to computer graphics and geometry processing.

Marcelo Arenas, Catholic University of Chile
For contributions to the foundations of data management.

Michael Bailey, Georgia Institute of Technology
For contributions to cybersecurity and internet measurement.

Arindam Banerjee, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
For contributions to advancements in statistical machine learning and its applications in science.

Clark Barrett, Stanford University
For contributions to the theory, implementation, and application of SMT solving.

Susanne Bødker, Aarhus University
For contributions to participatory design, computer-supported collaborative work, and human-computer interaction.

Satish Chandra, Google
For contributions to the foundations and practice of software development tools.

Marsha Chechik, University of Toronto
For contributions to formal reasoning for quality software development at scale.

Lei Chen, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
For contributions to spatial data management, spatial crowdsourcing, and deep learning frameworks.

Wei Chen, Microsoft Research Asia
For contributions to network influence maximization and combinatorial online learning.

Carla Fabiana Chiasserini, Politecnico di Torino
For contributions to the design of high-performance mobile networks and services.

Diane Joyce Cook, Washington State University
For contributions to machine learning and digital health.

Fred Chong, University of Chicago
For contributions to quantum computer architecture, compilation and optimization.

Stephen David Crocker, Edgemoor Research Institute
For pioneering leadership in the design of the Arpanet Host-Host Protocols and applications.

Brian Curless, University of Washington
For contributions to 3D shape and appearance capture and reconstruction and to computational photography.

Luca de Alfaro, University of California Santa Cruz
For contributions to formal methods, concurrent games, and reputation systems.

Maarten de Rijke, University of Amsterdam
For contributions to information retrieval and leadership in public-private research collaborations in computer science.

Edward J. Delp, Purdue University
For advancements in multimedia protection, image and video encoding, and image-based nutritional assessment.

Falko Dressler, Technische Universität Berlin
For contributions to the principles of self-organization in wireless communication protocols within IoT and automotive applications.

Derek Dreyer, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems
For input on the logical and semantic bases of programming languages.

Niklas Elmqvist, Aarhus University
For contributions to ubiquitous, immersive, and human-centric AI technologies for data visualization.

Michal Feldman, Tel Aviv University
For contributions to algorithmic game theory and the relationship between computer science and economics.

Nate Foster, Cornell University
For contributions towards the applications of programming languages in networking.

Ashish Goel, Stanford University
For input on algorithms for social networks, market design, and civic platforms, connecting theory and real-life impact.

Sudipto Guha, Zscaler
For contributions to streaming and approximation algorithms along with their various applications.

Jeffrey Michael Heer, University of Washington
For contributions to information visualization, human-centered data science, and interactive machine learning.

Russell Housley, Vigil Security, LLC
For contributions to Internet security standards, along with leadership roles in the IETF.

Scott Hudson, Carnegie Mellon University
For contributions in the realm of user interface software, interactive devices, and computational fabrication related to HCI.

Mohan Kankanhalli, National University of Singapore
For contributions to multimedia content processing and multimedia protection.

Irwin King, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
For contributions to the theories and uses of machine learning in social computing.

Cliff Lampe, University of Michigan
For contributions regarding social network systems and exceptional leadership within the ACM SIGCHI community.

Stefano Leonardi, Sapienza Universita Di Roma
For contributions to the theories of algorithms, approximation algorithms, algorithmic mechanism design, and community service.

Guoliang Li, Tsinghua University
For contributions to human-centered data integration and learning-oriented database systems.

Azad M. Madni, University of Southern California
For technical leadership in propelling augmented intelligence and machine learning for aerospace and automotive systems.

Tim J. Menzies, North Carolina State University
For contributions to the foundation and application of AI in software engineering.

Mira Mezini, Technische Universität Darmstadt
For contributions to programming languages and software analysis with applications in distributed systems, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence, as well as for enhancements in learning-based code completion.

Sudip Misra, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
For contributions to intelligent service-oriented sensing and sustainable data processing in extensive IoT networks.

Bashar A. Nuseibeh, Open University
For contributions to requirements engineering, augmenting software development methodologies and user experiences.

Peter W. O’Hearn, University College London
For contributions to the science and engineering of reasoning about programs.

Fatma Ozcan, Google
For contributions within the realm of scalable data management systems.

Rasmus Pagh, University of Copenhagen
For contributions to the concepts and practices of randomized algorithms.

Dhabaleswar K. Panda, The Ohio State University
For contributions to high-performance and scalable communication within parallel and high-end computing systems.

Naren Ramakrishnan, Virginia Tech
For contributions to algorithms and systems aimed at modeling and forecasting significant societal occurrences.

Dana Randall, Georgia Institute of Technology
For contributions to the theory of Markov chains and programmable active matter.

Abhik Roychoudhury, National University of Singapore
For contributions to software testing and analysis, including automated program repair and fuzz testing.

Claudio T. Silva, New York University
For contributions to scientific and information visualization, along with geometric computation.

Thad Starner, Georgia Institute of Technology
For contributions to and leadership within the wearable computing research community.

Qi Tian, Huawei Technologies, Ltd.
For contributions to multimedia information retrieval, computer vision, and AI in scientific computing.

Anwar Walid, Defense Unicorns and Columbia University
For contributions to the theory of multipath congestion management, its practical application, and implementation.

Haixun Wang, EvenUp Law
For contributions related to graph-based systems and their usage in text understanding.

Guoliang Xing, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
For contributions to embedded AI and mobile computing technologies.

Feng Zhao, Tsinghua University
For contributions to the theories and applications of networked embedded sensing and the Internet of Things.

Jingren Zhou, Alibaba Cloud
For contributions to cloud computing and query processing.

Justin Zobel, University of Melbourne
For contributions to data structures and algorithms facilitating efficient search and storage.

Benjamin G. Zorn, Microsoft Corporation
For contributions to programming language systems encompassing run-time efficiency, security, and usability within programming.

About ACM
ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery www.acm.org, stands as the largest educational and scientific computing organization globally, bringing together computing educators, researchers, and professionals to foster dialogue, exchange resources, and tackle challenges in the field. ACM amplifies the computing profession’s unified voice through effective leadership, the promotion of top-tier standards, and acknowledgment of technical excellence. ACM aids the professional development of its members by offering avenues for continual learning, career progression, and professional networking.

About the ACM Fellows Program
The ACM Fellows program, established in 1993, honors the extraordinary contributions of preeminent members in the computing domain. These individuals have significantly enlightened researchers, developers, practitioners, and information technology end users worldwide. The newly appointed ACM Fellows join a prestigious roster of peers whom ACM and its members seek for insight and leadership in computing and information technology.

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