World’s largest computing society honors 2022 Distinguished Members for ground-breaking achievements and longstanding participation

ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, has named 67 Distinguished Members for significant contributions. All of the 2022 inductees are longstanding ACM members and were selected by their peers for work that has spurred innovation, enhanced computer science education, and moved the field forward. 

“The ACM Distinguished Members program honors both accomplishment and commitment,” said ACM President Yannis Ioannidis. “Each of these new 67 Distinguished Members have been selected for specific and impactful work, as well as their longstanding commitment to being a part of our professional association. As ACM celebrates its 75^th anniversary this year, it is especially fitting to reflect on how our global membership has built our organization into what it is today. Our Distinguished Members are leaders both within ACM and throughout the computing field.” 

The 2022 ACM Distinguished Members work at leading universities, corporations and research institutions in Australia, Canada, China, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, India, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Singapore, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, and the United States. ACM Distinguished Members are selected for their contributions in three separate categories: educational, engineering, and scientific. This year’s class of Distinguished Members made advancements in areas including algorithms, computer science education, cybersecurity, data management, energy efficient computer architecture, information retrieval, healthcare information technology, knowledge graph and semantic analysis, mobile computing, and software engineering, among many others.

The ACM Distinguished Member program recognizes up to 10 percent of ACM worldwide membership based on professional experience and significant achievements in the computing field. To be nominated, a candidate must have at least 15 years of professional experience in the computing field, five years of professional ACM membership in the last 10 years, and must have achieved a significant level of accomplishment or made a significant impact in the field of computing. A Distinguished Member is expected to have served as a mentor and role model by guiding technical career development and contributing to the field beyond the norm.

2022 ACM DISTINGUISHED MEMBERS

	For Outstanding Educational Contributions to Computing:
	Tony Clear Auckland University of Technology	Quintin Cutts University of Glasgow
	Diana Franklin University of Chicago	Dragan Gasevic Monash University
	Margaret Joan Hamilton RMIT University	Guido Rößling Technische Universität Darmstadt
	For Outstanding Engineering Contributions to Computing:
	Michael Bendersky Google	Yu Deng IBM Research
	Kaoutar El Maghraoui IBM Research	Xuanhui Wang Google
	Joseph William Yoder The Refactory
For Outstanding Scientific Contributions to Computing:
	Vijayalakshmi Atluri Rutgers University	Earl Theodore Barr University College London
	Matthew A. Bishop University of California at Davis	Nirupama Bulusu Portland State University
	Barbara Carminati Università degli Studi dell'Insubria	Enhong Chen University of Science and Technology of China
	Rada Chirkova North Carolina State University	David J. Crandall Indiana University
	Khuzaima Daudjee University of Waterloo	Christopher D. Gill Washington University
	Dimitris Gizopoulos National and Kapodistrian University of Athens	Dan Hao Peking University
	Ehsan Hoque University of Rochester	Longbo Huang Tsinghua University
	Shadi Ibrahim Inria	Salil Kanhere University of New South Wales
	Samee U. Khan Mississippi State University	Milind Kulkarni Purdue University
	Matthew Lease The University of Texas at Austin	Jing (Jane) Li University of Pennsylvania
	Shou-De Lin Appier	Zhiqiang Lin Ohio State University
	Silvia Margot Lindtner University of Michigan	Shixia Liu Tsinghua University
	Xuanzhe Liu Peking University	Siwei Lyu University at Buffalo, State University of New York
	Zhuoqing Morley Mao University of Michigan	Athina Markopoulou University of California, Irvine
	Wim Martens University of Bayreuth	Joanna McGrenere University of British Columbia
	Gerome Miklau University of Massachusetts, Amherst	Tijana Milenkovic University of Notre Dame
	Animesh Mukherjee Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur	Kedar S. Namjoshi Nokia Bell Labs
	Thomas Ploetz Georgia Institute of Technolog	Michael Pradel University of Stuttgart
	Qinru Qiu Syracuse University	Reza Rejaie University of Oregon
	Martin Robillard McGill University	Jennifer A. Rode University College London
	Saket Saurabh The Institute of Mathematical Sciences	Chirag Shah University of Washington
	Haiying Shen University of Virginia	Li Shen University of Pennsylvania
	Georgios Smaragdakis Delft University of Technology	Houbing Herbert Song University of Maryland, Baltimore County
	Yizhou Sun University of California, Los Angeles	Nian-Feng Tzeng University of Louisiana at Lafayette
	Kaisa Väänänen Tampere University   Harry Xu University of California, Los Angeles   Koji Yatani The University of Tokyo	Haining Wang Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University   Kun Yang University of Essex   Ayal Zaks Mobileye
	Zibin Zheng Sun Yat-Sen University	Jianying Zhou Singapore University of Technology and Design

 

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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