CRA Committees
CRA relies on the volunteers that serve on its committees, as well as its professional staff, to carry out its programs.
Awards
The following committees oversee CRA’s award programs:
Distinguished Service and A. Nico Habermann Awards
Selection Committee:
Diana Franklin (University of Chicago) Chair
Distinguished Service Award: Recognizes service in the areas of government affairs, professional societies, publications or conferences, and leadership that has a major impact on computing research.
A. Nico Habermann Award: Recognizes outstanding contributions aimed at increasing the numbers and/or successes of underrepresented members in the computing research community.
Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award
These student awards, sponsored by Microsoft and Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs in alternate years, recognize undergraduate students in North American colleges and universities who show outstanding research potential in an area of computing research.
This award is managed by the CRA Education Committee.
2022-23 Selection Committee:
Michael Hilton (CMU) Co-Chair
Monica Anderson (University of Alabama) Co-Chair
Jonathan Bell (Northeastern)
Victoria Interrante (University of Minnesota)
Evan Peck (Bucknell)
Raghu Ramanujan (Davidson College)
Steve Swanson (UC San Diego)
Matt Weinberg (Princeton)
Rahmat Beheshti (University of Delaware)
Tony Clark (Pomona)
CRA-E Undergraduate Research Faculty Mentoring Award
This award recognizes individual faculty members who have provided exceptional mentorship, undergraduate research experiences, and, in parallel, guidance on admission and matriculation of these students to research-focused graduate programs in computing.
This award is managed by the CRA Education Committee.
2022-23 Selection Committee:
Denys Poshyvanyk (William & Mary), Chair
Monica Anderson (University of Alabama)
Gary Holness (Clark University)
Tijana Milenkovic (University of Notre Dame)
This award recognizes outstanding service to CRA as an organization.
Selected by the CRA Board Chair.
Center for Evaluating the Research Pipeline (CERP)
CERP’s mission is to increase diversity in the field of computing research through evaluation and research.
Website: https://cra.org/cerp
CRA Contact: burcin [at] cra.org
Sampath Kannan (University of Pennsylvania)
Ran Libeskind-Hadas (Claremont McKenna College)
Kathryn McKinley (Google)
Rebecca Wright (Barnard College)
Committee on Widening Participation in Computing Research (CRA-WP)
CRA-WP works to increase the number and success of underrepresented groups in computing research and higher education by assessing needs and developing and implementing programs to encourage and support women in the computing research community.
Website: https://cra.org/cra-wp
CRA Contact: Erik Russell, erik [at] cra.org
Susan Rodger (Duke University) Co-Chair
Amanda Stent (Colby College) Co-Chair
Deb Agarwal (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Nancy Amato (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Monica Anderson (University of Alabama)
Sujata Banerjee (VMware)
A. J. Bernheim Brush (Microsoft Research)
Ramón Cáceres (Google)
Lori Clarke (University of Massachusetts-Amherst)
Jeanine Cook (Sandia National Labs)
Dilma Da Silva (Texas A&M University)
Sandhya Dwarkadas (University of Virginia)
Maria Gini (University of Minnesota)
Soha Hassoun (Tufts University)
Julia Hirschberg (Columbia University)
Ayanna Howard (Ohio State University)
Chad Jenkins (University of Michigan)
Russ Joseph (Northwestern University)
Raja Kushalnagar (Gallaudet University)
Richard Ladner (University of Washington)
Ming Lin (University of North Carolina)
Patty Lopez (New Mexico State University)
Jaime Moreno (IBM Research)
Cynthia Phillips (Sandia National Laboratories)
Meredith Ringel Morris (Microsoft Research)
Lavanya Ramakrishnan (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)
Gonzalo Ramos (Microsoft)
Holly Rushmeier (Yale University)
Hakim Weatherspoon (Cornell University)
Rebecca Wright (Barnard College)
Computing Community Consortium
The mission of Computing Research Association’s Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is to enable the pursuit of innovative, high-impact computing research that aligns with pressing national and global challenges.
Website: https://cra.org/ccc
CRA Contact: Ann Schwartz Drobnis, CCC Director
Daniel P. Lopresti (Lehigh University) Chair
Nayda Bliss (Arizona State University) Vice Chair
Sujata Banerjee (VMware)
Randal Burns (Johns Hopkins University)
Tom Conte (Georgia Tech)
David Danks (UCSD)
Maria Gini (University of Minnesota)
William D. Gropp (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
David Jensen (University of Massachusetts – Amherst)
Sven Koenig (University of Southern California)
Chandra Krintz (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Brian LaMacchia (Microsoft Research)
Rada Michalcea (University of Michigan)
Melanie Moses (University of New Mexico)
Raj Rajaraman (Northeastern University)
William Regli (University of Maryland)
Katie Siek (Indiana University)
Mona Singh (Princeton University)
Matthew Turk (Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago)
Ufuk Topcu (University of Texas at Austin)
Holly Yanco (UMass Lowell)
Pamela Wisniewski (University of Central Florida)
This committee organizes CRA’s biennial flagship conference.
2022 Conference at Snowbird Organizing Committee
Website: https://cra.org/snowbird
Penny Rheingans (University of Maine) Co-Chair
Shashi Shekhar (University of Minnesota) Co-Chair
Jaime Teevan (Microsoft) Co-Chair
James Allan (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Christine Alvarado (University of California, San Diego)
Carla Brodley (Northeastern University)
Peter Harsha (CRA)
Kate Larson (University of Waterloo)
Ran Libeskind-Hadas (Claremont McKenna College))
Divesh Srivastava (AT&T)
New Department Chairs Workshop
Carla Brodley (Northeastern University) Co-Chair
Katie Siek (Indiana University) Co-Chair
CRA Deans Group
Website: https://cra.org/committees/cra-deans/
The CRA-Deans Group meets annually to discuss a range of topics and share their experiences creating independent schools and IT units.
CRA Deans Leadership:
Eunice Santos (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Chair
Keith Marzullo (University of Maryland) Vice Chair
Dennis Livesay (Michigan Technological University) Secretary
CRA-Education Committee (CRA-E)
CRA-E’s mission is to support society’s need for a continuous supply of talented and well-prepared computing researchers by providing resources helping undergraduates to pursue research, to pursue graduate school, or to pursue a research related career.
Website: https://cra.org/crae
Lori Pollock (University of Delaware) Co-Chair
Kelly Shaw (Williams College) Co-Chair
Monica Anderson (University of Alabama)
Janet Davis (Whitman College)
Susanne Hambrusch (Purdue)
Geoffrey Herman (University of Illinois)
Michael Hilton (Carnegie Mellon University)
Gary Holness (Clark University)
Victoria Interrante (University of Minnesota)
Amy Ko (University of Washington)
Denys Poshyvanyk (William and Mary)
Borja Sotomayor (University of Chicago)
Steven Swanson (UC San Diego)
Elections
The Elections Committee oversees CRA board and officer elections and provides recommendations to the board on elections policy. Each year, it develops a slate of candidates for the CRA board for voting by our members; in odd years, it also develops a slate for CRA board officer elections.
Nancy Amato (University of Illinois) Co-chair
Dan Grossman (University of Washington) Co-chair
Lorrie Cranor (Carnegie Mellon University)
Divesh Srivastava (AT&T)
Executive
The Executive Committee provides advice to the CRA Board Chair and the CRA Executive Director, and it functions as the executive body representing the Board between Board meetings.
Website: https://cra.org/about/board/executive/
Nancy Amato (University of Illinois) Chair
Dan Grossman (University of Washington) Vice Chair
Ran Libeskind-Hadas (Claremont McKenna College) Secretary
James Allan (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) Treasurer
Jaime Teevan (Microsoft Research) Appointed Member
Tracy Camp (CRA Executive Director)
Finance Committee
The CRA Finance Committee oversees the CRA budget and audits. It is chaired by the CRA Treasurer (an elected officer).
James Allan (University of Massachusetts) Chair
Dan Grossman (University of Washington)
Peter Harsha (CRA)
Daniel Lopresti (Lehigh University)
Government Affairs
The Government Affairs Committee establishes priorities and positions, and helps to execute CRA’s efforts, in government affairs and public policy.
Website: https://cra.org/govaffairs
CRA Contact: Peter Harsha, harsha [at] cra.org
- Stephanie Forrest (Arizona State University) Chair
- Greg Hager (Johns Hopkins University) Vice-Chair
- Sarita Adve (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
- Alex Aiken (Stanford University)
- Nancy Amato (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
- Cindy Bethel (Mississippi State University)
- Sandhya Dwarkadas (University of Rochester)
- Dan Grossman (University of Washington)
- Jeff Hollingsworth (University of Maryland)
- Dan Reed (University of Utah)
- Vivek Sarkar (Georgia Tech)
- Bobby Schnabel (University of Colorado, Boulder)
- Fred Schneider (Cornell University)
- Forrest Shull (Carnegie Mellon University)
- Marc Snir (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
- Eugene H. Spafford (Purdue University)
Industry
The mission of CRA-Industry (CRA-I) is to bridge between its industry members and CRA’s academic and government constituents to facilitate progress and mutual benefit on jointly relevant issues.
Website: https://cra.org/industry/
CRA-Industry Steering Committee:
Vivek Sarkar (Georgia Tech) Co-Chair
Ben Zorn (Microsoft) Co-Chair
Lisa Amini (IBM Research)
Mary Hall (University of Utah)
Fatma Özcan (Google)
Chris Ramming (VMware)
Divesh Srivastava (AT&T)
Gil Vandentop (Intel)
Membership
Website: https://cra.org/about/membership/
CRA Contact: Sabrina Jacob, sjacob [at] cra.org, exedir [at] cra.org
James Allan (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Nancy Amato (University of Illinois)
Ran Libeskind-Hadas (Claremont McKenna College)
Ellen Zegura (Georgia Tech)
Surveys
Website: https://cra.org/resources/taulbee-survey/
Stu Zweben (Ohio State University) Chair
Betsy Bizot (CRA)
Katie Siek (Indiana University)
Timothy M. Pinkston (University of Southern California)