2025 Board of Directors Election

The CRA Committee on Elections is pleased to announce its slate of candidates for the 2025 CRA Board of Directors Election. Click each candidate’s name below to read their personal statements, review their qualifications, and more.

Academic (3 openings) [View All Academic Bios]

The following seven academic candidates are vying for three open seats on the Board of Directors. We encourage CRA members who are voting to rank at least three candidates in their vote.

• Carla Brodley (Northeastern University)
• Mona Diab (Carnegie Mellon University)
• David Ebert (University of Oklahoma)
• Maria Gini* (University of Minnesota)
• Gillian Hayes* (University of California, Irvine)
• Martin Margala (University of Louisiana at Lafayette)
• Leen-Kait Soh (University of Nebraska)

Non-Academic (3 openings) [View All Non-Academic Bios]

The following five non-academic candidates are vying for three open seats on the Board of Directors. We encourage CRA members who are voting to rank at least three candidates in their vote.

• Mark Hill (Formerly Microsoft, and University of Wisconsin-Madison)
• Wen-mei Hwu (NVIDIA)
• Divesh Srivastava* (AT&T)
• Jeffrey Walz (Acadigm.ai)
• Ben Zorn* (Microsoft Research)

*Denotes current Board members.

Continuing Board Members

Alex Aiken (Stanford University)
James Allan (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
David Bader (New Jersey Institute of Technology)
Nadya Bliss (Arizona State University)
Sandhya Dwarkadas (University of Virginia)
Alan Edelman (MIT)
Will Enck (North Carolina State University)
Yolanda Gil (University of Southern California)
Kinnis Gosha (Morehouse College)
William D. Gropp (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Mary Hall (University of Utah)
Kim Hazelwood (Meta AI)
Bruce Hendrickson (Lawrence Livermore National Lab)
Raquel Hill (Spelman College)
Samir Khuller (Northwestern University)
Kate Larson (University of Waterloo)
Ran Libeskind-Hadas (Claremont McKenna College)
Ming Lin (University of Maryland)
Keith Marzullo (University of Maryland)
Fatma Ozcan (Google)
Manuel Pérez-Quiñones (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)
Rachel Pottinger (University of British Columbia)
Susan Rodger (Duke University)
Eve Schooler (University of Oxford)
Kelly Shaw (Williams College)
Katie Siek (Indiana University Bloomington)
Deborah Silver (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey)
Eugene Spafford (Purdue University)
Lydia Tapia (University of New Mexico)