image: The ACM Distinguished Member program recognizes up to 10 percent of the worldwide ACM membership for their technical achievements and/or service to the field.
Credit: Association for Computing Machinery
ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, has named 61 new Distinguished Members. All the 2025 inductees are registered members of the prestigious scholarly society and were selected by their peers for significant technical achievements and/or volunteer service.
“We see the annual announcement of a new class of Distinguished Members as one of our most important events and an excellent way to cap off the year,” said ACM President Yannis Ioannidis. “It’s our opportunity to recognize computing innovators whose efforts and creativity underpin the technologies that shape our world. And for those new Distinguished Members who are being recognized for their service, we’re underscoring that our field depends on colleagues who volunteer their time to serve the greater good. From conference organizers to editorial board members of ACM journals and computer science curriculum developers, these peers support the community that benefits us all. In many ways, becoming an ACM Distinguished Member is only a milestone towards greater achievements. We’re excited to see how these leaders will continue to shape our increasingly digital society.”
The 2025 ACM Distinguished Members work at leading universities, corporations, and research institutions in Australia, Belgium, Canada, Chile, China, Germany, India, Korea, Mexico, New Zealand, Portugal, Singapore, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. This year’s Distinguished Members are cited for contributions in a wide range of computing research areas including AI for healthcare, computing education, data management, human-computer interaction, mobile computing, networked systems, security, software, sustainability, and numerous other areas.
The ACM Distinguished Member program recognizes up to 10 percent of the worldwide ACM membership for their technical achievements and/or service to the field.
2025 DISTINGUISHED MEMBERS
Ahmed Abbasi
University of Notre Dame
For contributions to human-centered analytics including stylometric and sentiment analysis.
Rajeev Balasubramonian
University of Utah
For contributions to memory systems and tools.
Pablo Barceló
Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
For contributions to data management, machine learning, and community service.
Shaowen Bardzell
Georgia Tech
For contributions to critical and sustainable computing.
Marcel Böhme
Max Planck Institute of Security and Privacy
For contributions to software security and fuzz testing.
Aydin Buluc
NVIDIA Corporation
For contributions to high-performance algorithms and software.
Jianfei Cai
Monash University
For contributions to vision language understanding and visual computing.
Jennifer Campbell
University of Toronto
For contributions to online computing education.
Eun Kyoung Choe
University of Maryland, College Park
For contributions to personal informatics.
Rumi Chunara
New York University
For contributions to robust health AI through data science.
Nick Craswell
Microsoft
For contributions to information retrieval, including web search and neural ranking.
Shaundra Bryant Daily
Duke University
For contributions to computing education.
Munmun De Choudhury
Georgia Institute of Technology
For the development of computational methods to improve mental health outcomes.
Paul Denny
University of Auckland
For pedagogical innovations including AI-enhanced learning.
Sheng Di
Argonne National Laboratory
For contributions to lossy compression, HPC resilience and distributed computing.
Jana Doppa
Washington State University
For contributions to structured machine learning and adaptive experimental design to accelerate science and engineering.
Tiago Guerreiro
Universidade de Lisboa
For contributions to mobile, educational and health technologies for people with disabilities.
Brent Hecht
Microsoft Corporation
For contributions to human-centered AI.
Reid Holmes
University of British Columbia
For contributions to software quality and developer productivity.
Sanjay Jha
UNSW
For contributions to algorithms and protocols for wireless sensor networks and IoT security.
Daxin Jiang
StepFun Technology Limited
For contributions to context-aware search and language scaling.
Yu-Gang Jiang
Fudan University
For contributions to large-scale video analysis.
Craig S. Kaplan
University of Waterloo
For contributions to computational geometric pattern modeling and non-photorealistic rendering.
Dimitrios Koutsonikolas
Northeastern University
For contributions to improving the performance of millimeter wave networks.
Shuvendu Kumar Lahiri
Microsoft Research
For contributions to symbolic and neuro-symbolic program testing and verification.
Hady W. Lauw
Singapore Management University
For contributions to recommender systems and web mining.
Bongshin Lee
Yonsei University
For contributions to data visualization through multimodal interaction, data-driven storytelling, and mobile data experiences.
Sián Lindley
Microsoft Research
For contributions to social science research on future technologies.
Jay Lorch
Microsoft Research
For contributions to systems software reliability and trustworthiness.
Kurt Luther
Virginia Tech
For contributions to crowd computing and human-AI collaboration.
José F. Martínez
Cornell University
For contributions to adaptive and highly programmable parallel architectures.
Alexandra Meliou
UMass Amherst
For contributions to understandable, trustworthy, and usable data systems.
Florian Mueller
Monash University
For contributions to human-computer interaction and playful not-easy-to-use interfaces.
Mor Naaman
Cornell Tech
For contributions to understanding the impact of technology on human communication.
S. Eugene Ng
Rice University
For contributions to data center networking and Internet delay estimation methods.
Edith Cheuk Han Ngai
The University of Hong Kong
For contributions to IoT and mobile edge computing.
Bogdan Nicolae
Argonne National Laboratory
For contributions to data management, storage and resilience of high performance computing.
Dan Olteanu
University of Zurich
For contributions to data management theory and systems.
Partha Pratim Pande
Washington State University
For contributions to heterogeneous manycore architecture-enabled AI accelerator design and optimization.
Sergio Rajsbaum
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM)
For contributions to distributed computing with combinatorial topology, consensus algorithms, and epistemic logic applications.
Daniel Mauricio Romero
University of Michigan
For contributions to computational social science, information diffusion and network evolution.
Smruti Ranjan Sarangi
IIT Delhi
For contributions to computer architecture and computing education.
Corina Sas
Lancaster University
For contributions to ethical design for well being and mental health technologies.
Sarita Schoenebeck
University of Michigan
For contributions to the study of online social platforms, bridging justice theories and human-computer interaction.
Weiyi Shang
University of Waterloo
For contributions to software performance and log engineering.
Philip Shilane
Dell Technologies
For contributions to data deduplication, delta compression, and research datasets.
Robert Soulé
Yale University
For contributions to networked systems, including in-network computing.
Nan Tang
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (GZ)
For contributions to AI-powered data preparation in integration, cleaning, and transformation.
Jan Vahrenhold
University of Münster
For contributions to computing education research.
Jan Van den Bussche
Hasselt University
For contributions to computing research and service to the research community.
Jessica Vitak
University of Maryland, College Park
For contributions to privacy and human-computer interaction.
Huamin Wang
Style3D Research
For contributions to physics-based modeling and simulation for computer graphics and computer vision.
A. Nicki Washington
Duke University
For contributions to broadening participation in computing.
Julie R. Williamson
University of Glasgow
For contributions to human-computer interaction in immersive environments, and to open and systematic publication practices.
Yubin Xia
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
For contributions to computer systems that harmonize performance and isolation through hardware-software co-design.
Sung-Eui Yoon
KAIST
For contributions to scalable rendering, data generation, and learning techniques.
Junsong Yuan
University at Buffalo, the State University of New York
For contributions to video-based modeling and analysis of human behaviors and interactions.
Mi Zhang
The Ohio State University
For contributions to mobile AI, artificial intelligence of things, and associated healthcare applications.
Rui Zhang
Huazhong University of Science and Technology
For contributions to data-centric systems and AI-driven big data applications.
Ying Zhang
Meta Platform Inc.
For contributions to the design and operation of hyperscale production networks.
Lei Zhou
Peking University
For contributions to query processing and optimization in graph databases.
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.
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