Committees - Computing Research Association

CRA Committees

CRA relies on the volunteers that serve on its committees, as well as its professional staff, to carry out its programs.

Awards

CRA Contact: exedir [at] cra.org/cra

The following committees oversee CRA’s award programs:

Distinguished Service and A. Nico Habermann Awards

Selection Committee:
Diana Franklin (University of Chicago)
Kim Hazelwood (Meta—Facebook AI Research)
Timothy Pinkston (University of Southern California), 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.

2021-22 Selection Committee:

Michael Hilton (CMU) Co-chair
Kelly Shaw (Williams College) Co-chair
Monica Anderson (University of Alabama)
Jonathan Bell (Northeastern University)
Victoria Interrante (University of Minnesota)
Jelani Nelson (UC Berkeley)
Evan Peck (Bucknell University)
Raghu Ramanujan (Davidson College)
Jenna Wiens (University of Michigan)
Yuqing Melanie Wu (Pomona College)

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.

2021-22 Selection Committee:

Denys Poshyvanyk (William & Mary) Chair
Monica Anderson (University of Alabama)
Gary Holness (Clark University)
Lenore Cowen (Tufts University)

Service to CRA Award

This award recognizes outstanding service to CRA as an organization.

Selected by the CRA Board Chair.

CERP

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/cra/cerp

CRA Contact: burcin [at] cra.org/cra

Advisory Committee:
Sampath Kannan (University of Pennsylvania, CCC Council)
Ran Libeskind-Hadas (Claremont McKenna College)
Kathryn McKinley (Google)
Rebecca Wright (Barnard College, CRA-WP Board)

CRA-WP

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/cra-wp

CRA Contact: Erik Russell, erik [at] cra.org/cra
Sandhya Dwarkadas (University of Rochester) 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)
A. J. Bernheim Brush (Microsoft Research)
Ramón Cáceres (Google)
Tracy Camp (Colorado School of Mines)
Lori Clarke (University of Massachusetts-Amherst)
Jeanine Cook (Sandia National Labs)
Dilma Da Silva (Texas A&M University)
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 (Intel)
Jaime Moreno (IBM Research)
Meredith Ringel Morris (Microsoft Research)
Lori Pollock (University of Delaware)
Susan Rodger (Duke University)
Holly Rushmeier (Yale University)
Hakim Weatherspoon (Cornell University)
Rebecca Wright (Barnard College)

CCC

Computing Community Consortium

Website: https://cra.org/cra/ccc

CRA Contact: Ann Schwartz Drobnis, CCC Director
Elizabeth Bradley (University of Colorado, Boulder) Chair
Daniel P. Lopresti (Lehigh University) Vice Chair
Sujata Banerjee (VMware)
Elisa Bertino (Purdue University)
Nayda Bliss (Arizona State University)
Tom Conte (Georgia Tech)
Kathleen Fisher (Tufts University)
Ian Foster (Argonne National Laboratory)
Maria Gini (University of Minnesota)
William D. Gropp (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Chad Jenkins (University of Michigan)
Sven Koenig (University of Southern California)
Chandra Krintz (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Brian LaMacchia (Microsoft Research)
Melanie Mitchell (Portland State University)
Melanie Moses (University of New Mexico)
Helen Nissenbaum (Cornell Tech)
William Regli (University of Maryland)
Katie Siek (Indiana University)
Mona Singh (Princeton University)
Ufuk Topcu (University of Texas at Austin)
Holly Yanco (UMass Lowell)

Conference at Snowbird

2022 Conference at Snowbird Organizing Committee

Website: https://cra.org/cra/snowbird

CRA Contact: exedir [at] cra.org/cra

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

Deans

CRA Deans Group

Website: https://cra.org/cra/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:
Yi Deng (Drexel University) Chair
Eunice Santos (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Vice Chair
Hesham Ali (University of Nebraska Omaha)

CRA Board Rep:
Greg Morrisett (Cornell University)

Education

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/cra/crae

CRA Contact: exedir [at] cra.org/cra
Susanne Hambrusch (Purdue) Co-Chair
Lori Pollock (University of Delaware) Co-Chair
Monica Anderson (University of Alabama)
Janet Davis (Whitman College)
Geoffrey Herman (University of Illinois)
Michael Hilton (Carnegie Mellon University)
Gary Holness (Clark University)
Victoria Interrante (University of Minnesota)
Amy Ko (University of Washington)
Brandon Myers (University of Iowa)
Denys Poshyvanyk (William and Mary)
Kelly Shaw (Williams College)

Elections

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/cra/about/board/executive/

CRA Contact: exedir [at] cra.org/cra

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

Finance

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/cra/govaffairs

CRA Contact: Peter Harsha, harsha [at] cra.org/cra

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/cra/industry/

CRA-Industry Steering Committee:

Vivek Sarkar (Georgia Tech) Co-Chair

Ben Zorn (Microsoft) Co-Chair

Mary Hall (University of Utah)

Fatma Özcan (Google)

Chris Ramming (VMware)

Divesh Srivastava (AT&T)

Gil Vandentop (Intel)

Membership

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