CRA Congratulates New AAAI, ACM, and IEEE Fellows and ACM Distinguished Members

By Matt Hazenbush, Director of Communications

The Computing Research Association (CRA) proudly congratulates members of the computing research community who have recently been recognized as Fellows of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and the IEEE Computer Society (IEEE-CS), as well as ACM Distinguished Members. As Affiliated Professional Societies of CRA, AAAI, ACM, and IEEE-CS play a vital role in supporting the computing research community, advancing innovation, and fostering collaboration across the computing research ecosystem.

These prestigious honors highlight their exceptional contributions to computing research, advancing innovation, scholarship, and technological progress that will shape the future of the field.

CRA is deeply grateful for the computing researchers who contribute their time and expertise to advance our mission. Many of this year’s honorees have played an integral role in CRA’s programs, initiatives, and events, helping to strengthen and support the research community. We extend our sincere appreciation and congratulations to them on this well-earned recognition!

 

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As a North American-based organization, CRA primarily serves institutions and researchers across North America. At the same time, computing research is a global endeavor, and so we recognize the significant contributions of those advancing the field worldwide. Below, we celebrate honorees affiliated with North American institutions, followed by a section recognizing those based outside North America, all of whom have affirmed their willingness to be acknowledged by CRA.

Honorees Based in North America 

AAAI Fellows – 2025 Class

AAAI is a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing research in artificial intelligence (AI) and promoting its responsible use for societal benefit. 

The AAAI Fellows program honors individuals who have made significant, sustained contributions to the field of AI through research, innovation, and leadership. Each year, a select group of researchers is recognized for their impact on the advancement of AI. Below, we acknowledge the individuals named as 2025 AAAI Fellows who have affirmed their willingness to be recognized by CRA.

Maria Florina Balcan

Maria Florina Balcan, Cadence Design Systems Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, was elected as an AAAI Fellow for significant contributions to the foundations of machine learning and its applications to multiagent systems and modern algorithm design.

Mohit Bansal

Mohit Bansal, John R. & Louise S. Parker Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was elected as an AAAI Fellow for significant contributions to multimodal AI foundations as well as faithful language generation and summarization.

Emma Brunskill

Emma Brunskill, Associate Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, was elected as an AAAI Fellow for significant contributions to the field of reinforcement learning and applications for societal benefit, in particular AI for education.

Yixin Chen

Yixin Chen, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, was elected as an AAAI Fellow for significant contributions to machine learning, pioneering widely used architectures and algorithms for graph neural networks and lightweight deep neural networks.

Ernest Davis

Ernest Davis, Professor of Computer Science at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, was elected as an AAAI Fellow for significant contributions to automated commonsense reasoning, particularly spatial and physical reasoning, and for writings explaining AI to a general audience.

Emilio Ferrara

Emilio Ferrara, Professor in the Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science at the University of Southern California, was elected as an AAAI Fellow for pioneering contributions to computational social science and the study of online information diffusion and manipulation.

Yun Raymond Fu

Yun Raymond Fu, Professor at Northeastern University, was elected as an AAAI Fellow for significant contributions to transformative technology innovation in computer vision, augmented human-machine interaction, and leadership in AI technology commercialization.

Kate Larson Kate Larson, Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies and Professor at the Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo, was elected an AAAI Fellow for significant contributions to the foundations of multiagent systems and for service to the broader AI community. She is also a Research Scientist at Google DeepMind, where she contributes to cutting-edge advancements in artificial intelligence. Larson is an active leader in the computing research community and currently serves on the CRA Board of Directors since 2018 as the representative for CS-Can|Info-Can, supporting CRA’s engagement with the Canadian computing research community. Through her research and leadership, she has helped advance the study of multiagent systems while fostering collaboration within the broader AI and computing research fields.

Sriraam Natarajan

Sriraam Natarajan, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Dallas, was elected as an AAAI Fellow for significant contributions to statistical relational AI, healthcare adaptations, and service to the AAAI community.

Ming-Hsuan Yang

Ming-Hsuan Yang, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Merced, and Research Scientist at Google DeepMind, was elected as an AAAI Fellow for significant contributions to visual tracking, low-level vision, and visual learning with widely used benchmark datasets and source code.

ACM Fellows – 2024 Class

ACM is a leading professional organization committed to advancing the field of computing through research, education, and innovation. The ACM Fellows program honors the top 1 percent of ACM members whose outstanding contributions have significantly shaped the computing field. Below, we recognize the individuals named as 2024 ACM Fellows who have affirmed their willingness to be acknowledged by CRA.

Clark Barrett

Clark Barrett, Professor (Research) of Computer Science at Stanford University, was named an ACM Fellow for contributions to the theory, implementation, and application of SMT solving.

Satish Chandra

Satish Chandra, Software Engineer at Google, was named an ACM Fellow for contributions to the foundations and practice of software development tools.

Marsha Chechik

Marsha Chechik, Professor and former Chair of Computer Science at the University of Toronto, was named an ACM Fellow for contributions to formal reasoning for quality software development at scale.

Fred Chong Fred Chong, Seymour Goodman Professor of Computer Science at the University of Chicago, was named an ACM Fellow for contributions to quantum computer architecture, compilation, and optimization. Chong has played a leadership role in advancing quantum computing research within the broader computing community. He co-chaired the 5-Year Update to the Next Steps in Quantum Computing workshop, organized by the Computing Community Consortium (CCC), and co-authored the resulting workshop report. The workshop convened experts from both within and outside the quantum computing field to explore interdisciplinary approaches that can accelerate progress toward practical quantum systems.

Diane Cook

Diane Cook, Professor at Washington State University, was named an ACM Fellow for contributions to machine learning and digital health.

Edward Delp

Edward Delp, Charles William Harrison Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University, was named an ACM Fellow for contributions to multimedia security, image and video compression, and image-based dietary assessment.

Nate Foster

Nate Foster, Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University and Visiting Researcher at Jane Street, was named an ACM Fellow for contributions to applications of programming languages to networking.

Scott Hudson

Scott Hudson, Professor of Human-Computer Interaction in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, was named an ACM Fellow for contributions in user interface software, interactive devices, and computational fabrication applied to HCI.

Cliff Lampe

Cliff Lampe, Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the School of Information at the University of Michigan, was named an ACM Fellow for contributions to social network systems and outstanding leadership in the ACM SIGCHI community. He has worked with CRA in the past in educating congressional delegations on the importance of computer science education.

Fatma Ozcan Fatma Ozcan, a Principal Engineer at Systems Research@Google, was named an ACM Fellow for contributions to the field of scalable data management systems. She has been an active leader in CRA, serving on the CRA Board of Directors since 2020 and playing a pivotal role in CRA-Industry initiatives. As a founding member of the CRA-Industry Steering Committee, she has helped shape CRA’s efforts to strengthen industry-academia collaboration and currently serves as its co-chair (2024–present). She has also co-organized key CRA-Industry events, including the Best Practices on Using the Cloud for Computing Research Workshop (March 2022) and multiple CRA-Industry roundtables, such as Best Practices on Using the Cloud for Computing Research (September 2021) and Computing Research in Industry (November 2022).  Through these efforts, she has advanced discussions on industry best practices and fostered stronger connections between computing researchers in academia and industry.

Dhabaleswar K (DK) Panda

Dhabaleswar K. (DK) Panda, Professor and University Distinguished Scholar in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at The Ohio State University, was named an ACM Fellow for contributions to high-performance and scalable communication in parallel and high-end computing systems.

Naren Ramakrishnan

Naren Ramakrishnan, Thomas L. Phillips Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech, was named an ACM Fellow for contributions to algorithms and systems for modeling and forecasting significant societal events. He was a member of CRA’s Leadership in Science Policy Institute (LiSPI) cohort in Fall 2011.

Dana Randall

Dana Randall, Associate Dean for Access and Advancement, Professor of Computer Science, and Adjunct Professor of Mathematics at the Georgia Institute of Technology, was named an ACM Fellow for contributions to the theory of Markov chains and programmable active matter.

Claudio T. Silva

Claudio T. Silva, Professor of Computer Science and Data Science at New York University and a member of the Visualization, Imaging, and Data Analysis (VIDA) Center, was named an ACM Fellow for contributions to scientific and information visualization and to geometric computing.

Thad Starner Thad Starner, Professor of Computing in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology, was named an ACM Fellow for contributions to and leadership in the wearable computing research community.  He demonstrated Telesign: Mobile Sign Language Recognition to members of the U.S. Congress at the Coalition for National Science Funding (CNSF) Capitol Hill Science Exhibition in 2002, as part of CRA’s government affairs efforts to showcase the impact of federally funded computing research.

Anwar Walid

Anwar Walid, Director of AI Research at Defense Unicorns and Adjunct Professor at Columbia University, was named an ACM Fellow for contributions to the theory of multipath congestion control, its practical realization, and its deployment.

Haixun Wang

Haixun Wang, VP of Engineering and Head of AI at EvenUp Law, was named an ACM Fellow for contributions to graph-based systems and their application to text understanding.

Benjamin Zorn Benjamin Zorn, a Partner Researcher at Microsoft Research, was named an ACM Fellow for contributions to programming language systems, including run-time performance, security, and usability in programming. He has been an active leader in CRA, serving on the CRA Board of Directors since 2022 and playing a pivotal role in CRA-Industry initiatives. As co-founder and co-chair of the CRA-Industry Committee (2021–2024), he helped establish it as a key forum for strengthening collaboration between academia and industry. Zorn played a central role in launching major CRA-Industry initiatives, including the inaugural CRA-Industry Meeting at Snowbird (2022) and the CRA Workshop on Computing Research in Industry (2023). His leadership has contributed to expanding industry engagement within the computing research community. In addition to his work with CRA-Industry, Zorn has supported CRA’s strategic efforts through service on the CRA Strategic Planning Committee (2019–2020) and the Industry Working Group (2019–2020). As a member of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council (2014–2020), he participated in task forces that shaped key research directions in computing. His contributions have strengthened connections between academia and industry, advancing CRA’s mission to support and sustain the computing research community.

 

IEEE Computer Society Fellows – 2025 Class

IEEE-CS is a leading professional organization dedicated to advancing computing technology and its applications for the benefit of society. The IEEE-CS Fellows program recognizes individuals with outstanding and extraordinary qualifications who have made significant contributions to computing research, education, and practice. Below, we celebrate the individuals named as 2025 IEEE-CS Fellows who have affirmed their willingness to be acknowledged by CRA.

Raheem Beyah

Raheem Beyah, Dean and Southern Company Chair in the College of Engineering at Georgia Tech, was named an IEEE Fellow for contributions in rogue device detection in the field of cybersecurity.

Yuriy Brun

Yuriy Brun, Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, was named an IEEE Fellow for contributions to software bias mitigation and to software engineering automation.

Pin-Yu Chen

Pin-Yu Chen, Principal Research Scientist at IBM Research, was named an IEEE Fellow for contributions to machine learning robustness and AI safety.

Jimmy Xiangji Huang

Jimmy Xiangji Huang, Tier 1 York Research Chair Professor and Director of the Information Retrieval and Knowledge Management Research Lab at York University, Toronto, Canada, was named an IEEE Fellow for contributions to information retrieval, web search, natural language processing, conversational systems, and their applications.

Trent Jaeger

Trent Jaeger, Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and the Center for Research in Security and Privacy at the University of California, Riverside, was named an IEEE Fellow for contributions to research and education for operating systems and software security.

Aamer Jaleel

Aamer Jaleel, Principal Research Scientist at NVIDIA Research, was named an IEEE Fellow for contributions to high-performance cache design and memory-aware scheduling.

Charles A. Kamhoua

Charles A. Kamhoua, Team Leader at DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory, was named an IEEE Fellow for contributions to blockchain and game theory applied to cybersecurity.

Christopher Kruegel

Christopher Kruegel, Professor at UC Santa Barbara, was named an IEEE Fellow for contributions to security, malware detection, and vulnerability analysis.

Yiorgos Makris

Yiorgos Makris, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at Dallas and Director of the TRELA Lab, was named an IEEE Fellow for contributions to machine-learning-based design of trusted and reliable integrated circuits.

Stuart Oberman

Stuart Oberman, Vice President of GPU Engineering at NVIDIA, was named an IEEE Fellow for contributions to GPU computing for artificial intelligence.

Patrick Schaumont Patrick Schaumont, Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, was named an IEEE Fellow for contributions to the implementation and evaluation of hardware security. He has attended and contributed to CRA workshops in the past, such as the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) workshop on Mechanism Design for Improving Hardware Security in 2022.

Noah Snavely

Noah Snavely, Professor of Computer Science at Cornell Tech and Research Scientist at Google, was named an IEEE Fellow for contributions to computer vision and computer graphics.

Peilin Song

Peilin Song, Principal Research Scientist at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, was named an IEEE Fellow for contributions to imaging-based integrated-circuit diagnostics and detection.

Dong Tian

Dong Tian, Senior Director at InterDigital, Inc., was named an IEEE Fellow for contributions to 3D video compression, processing, and analysis.

Nalini Venkatasubramanian Nalini Venkatasubramanian, Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine, was named an IEEE Fellow for contributions to the foundations of adaptive software and its application in enhancing community safety.  She is a recipient of the N²Women: Stars in Computer Networking and Communications award in 2020, and she co-authored the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) whitepaper on community resilience and public safety, titled Research Agenda in Intelligent Infrastructure to Enhance Disaster Management, Community Resilience, and Public Safety.

Brent Waters

Brent Waters, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin and NTT Research, was named an IEEE Fellow for contributions to cryptography and attribute-based encryption.

Steve Wilton

Steve Wilton, Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of British Columbia, was named an IEEE Fellow for contributions to debugging methodologies and low-power FPGAs.

ChunSheng Xin

ChunSheng Xin, Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Old Dominion University, was named an IEEE Fellow for contributions to secure resource sharing and core network control for resilient computing.

Hongtu Zhu

Hongtu Zhu, Professor  in the Department of Biostatistics at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was named an IEEE Fellow for contributions to data integration in medical imaging and genetics, and applying learning in ridesharing.

ACM Distinguished Members – 2024 Class

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is a leading professional organization dedicated to advancing the field of computing through research, education, and innovation. The ACM Distinguished Member program honors up to 10 percent of ACM’s worldwide membership, recognizing individuals who have made significant accomplishments and lasting impacts in computing. To receive this distinction, nominees must have at least 15 years of professional experience and five years of ACM Professional Membership within the past decade. Below, we recognize the individuals named as 2024 ACM Distinguished Members who have affirmed their willingness to be acknowledged by CRA.

• Pavan Aduri, Professor and Interim Chair, Department of Computer Science, Iowa State University
• Maria Florina Balcan, Cadence Design Systems Professor of Computer Science, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
• Marina Blanton, Associate Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo

Yunan Chen Yunan Chen, Professor of Informatics at the University of California Irvine, was named an ACM Distinguished Member.  She has participated in multiple CRA workshops related to computing and health, including the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) workshop on Research Opportunities in Sociotechnical Interventions for Health Disparity Reduction.

• Emiliano De Cristofaro, Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California Riverside, RAISE Institute

Magy Seif El-Nasr Magy Seif El-Nasr, UC Presidential Chair and Professor in the Department of Computational Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz, was named an ACM Distinguished Member.  She serves as the Department Chair for Computational Media at UCSC’s Silicon Valley campus, part of the Jack Baskin School of Engineering, and directs the Game User Interaction and Intelligence (GUII) Lab. She was a participant in the 2023 CRA Leadership in Science Policy Institute (LiSPI), where she contributed to discussions on advancing computing research and its policy implications.

Song Fu Song Fu, Professor and Associate Chair for Research in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of North Texas, was named an ACM Distinguished Member.  He was a participant in the 2023 CRA Leadership Academy.

• Shahram Ghandeharizadeh, Associate Professor, Thomas Lord Computer Science Department, University of Southern California
• Mohamed Hefeeda, Professor, School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University

Stephanie Ludi Stephanie Ludi, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of North Texas, was named an ACM Distinguished Member.  She participated in the 2023 CRA Leadership Academy and served on the 2025 CRA Leadership Academy Program Committee, which organized the February 2025 workshop. She was a featured speaker at the 2023 CRA-WP Grad Cohort for IDEALS workshop.

• Prateek Mittal, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Princeton University
• Hung Q. Ngo, VP of Research, RelationalAI
• Chunyi Peng, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Purdue University
• Andrew Petersen, Professor, Teaching Stream, Mathematical and Computational Sciences, University of Toronto Mississauga

Florian Schaub Florian Schaub, Associate Professor of Information and of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan, was named an ACM Distinguished Member. He has actively participated in CRA workshops, including the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) workshop Supporting At-Risk Users through Responsible Computing in December 2024, and served as a mentor to a CRA Computing Innovation Fellow (CI Fellow). He also participated in Congressional Visit Day, advocating for computing research and policy issues in 2019.

Kelly Shaw Kelly Shaw, Professor of Computer Science at Williams College, was named an ACM Distinguished Member.  She has been an active leader in CRA, serving on the CRA Board of Directors since 2024 as the representative of CRA’s Education Committee (CRA-E). She has been a CRA-E Board member since 2020 and has served as CRA-E Co-Chair since 2022, playing a key role in advancing initiatives that support computing education and undergraduate research. Shaw has contributed to several major CRA programs, including the NSF CSGrad4US Graduate Fellowship and Mentoring Program, UR2PhD, the CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award, and the Career Landscape Workshop. Through these efforts, she has helped create opportunities for students and early-career researchers while strengthening pathways to graduate education in computing. In addition to her work with CRA, Shaw is a Fellow of the ELATES Women in STEM Leadership program and a dedicated educator and mentor in the computing research community.

Gang (Gary) Tan Gang (Gary) Tan, Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, the Pennsylvania State University, was named an ACM Distinguished Member.  He is currently a member of the CRA Committee on Communications, which is responsible for developing and refining CRA’s overall communications strategy.

Jeffrey Voas Jeffrey Voas, Computer Scientist, Computer Security Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), was named an ACM Distinguished Member.  He is the Editor-in-Chief of Computer magazine, the flagship publication of the IEEE Computer Society. Voas is a leading researcher in software and systems assurance, with significant contributions to the fields of cybersecurity, software reliability, and the trustworthiness of emerging technologies.

• Shouhuai Xu, Gallogly Chair Professor in Cybersecurity and Founding Director of the Laboratory for Cybersecurity Dynamics, University of Colorado Colorado Springs
• Minlan Yu, Gordon McKay Professor, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Science
• Lingming Zhang, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Honorees Based Outside of North America

AAAI Fellows – 2025 Class

Gal A. Kaminka

Gal A. Kaminka, Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Bar Ilan University, was elected as an AAAI Fellow for significant contributions to plan- and goal-recognition, collaborative multi-robot systems, and multi-agent systems exhibiting social intelligence.

Roberto Navigli

Roberto Navigli, Professor in the Department of Computer, Control, and Management Engineering at Sapienza University of Rome and Scientific Director at Babelscape, was elected as an AAAI Fellow for significant contributions to multilingual Natural Language Understanding and the development of widely recognized methods for knowledge resource construction, text disambiguation, and semantic parsing.

Hui Xiong

Hui Xiong, Chair Professor in the AI Thrust at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), was elected as an AAAI Fellow for significant contributions to the field of artificial intelligence and mobile computing, and the development of the widely used Informer algorithm.

ACM Fellows – 2025 Class

Marcelo Arenas

Marcelo Arenas, Professor in the Department of Computer Science, School of Engineering at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, was named an ACM Fellow for contributions to the foundations of data management.

Wei Chen

Wei Chen, Principal Researcher at the Theory Center, Microsoft Research Asia, was named an ACM Fellow for contributions to network influence maximization and combinatorial online learning.

Carla Fabiana Chiasserini

Carla Fabiana Chiasserini, Full Professor in the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications at Politecnico di Torino, was named an ACM Fellow for contributions to the design of high-performance mobile networks and services.

Falko Dressler

Falko Dressler, Professor in the Telecommunication Networks Group at Technische Universität Berlin, was named an ACM Fellow for contributions to the foundations of self-organization in wireless communication protocols in IoT and vehicular applications.

Niklas Elmqvist

Niklas Elmqvist, Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Aarhus University, was named an ACM Fellow for contributions to ubiquitous, immersive, and human-centered AI technologies for data visualization.

Michal Feldman

Michal Feldman, Professor of Computer Science at Tel Aviv University, was named an ACM Fellow for contributions to algorithmic game theory and the interface between computer science and economics.

Mohan Kankanhalli

Mohan Kankanhalli, Provost’s Chair Professor of Computer Science in the School of Computing at the National University of Singapore, was named an ACM Fellow for contributions to multimedia content processing and multimedia security.

Irwin King

Irwin King, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, was named an ACM Fellow for contributions to the theory and applications of machine learning in social computing.

Stefano Leonardi

Stefano Leonardi, Professor in the Department of Computer, Control, and Management Engineering Antonio Ruberti at Sapienza University of Rome, was named an ACM Fellow for contributions to the theory of algorithms, approximation algorithms, algorithmic mechanism design, and community service.

Sudip Misra

Sudip Misra, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, was named an ACM Fellow for contributions to intelligent service-centric sensing and sustainable data processing in large-scale IoT networks.

Bashar Nuseibeh

Bashar Nuseibeh, Professor at The Open University, UK, was named an ACM Fellow for contributions to requirements engineering, improving software development practices, and user experiences.

Rasmus Pagh

Rasmus Pagh, Professor at the University of Copenhagen, was named an ACM Fellow for contributions to the theory and practice of randomized algorithms.

Abhik Roychoudhury

Abhik Roychoudhury, Provost’s Chair Professor at the National University of Singapore, was named an ACM Fellow for contributions to software testing and analysis, including automated program repair and fuzz testing.

Guoliang Xing

Guoliang Xing, Professor in the Department of Information Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, was named an ACM Fellow for contributions to embedded AI and mobile computing systems.

Feng Zhao

Feng Zhao, Distinguished Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University, was named an ACM Fellow for contributions to the theories and practices of networked embedded sensing and the Internet of Things.

Justin Zobel

Justin Zobel, Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor in the School of Computing and Information Systems at the University of Melbourne, was named an ACM Fellow for contributions to data structures and algorithms for efficient search and storage.

IEEE Computer Society Fellows – 2025 Class

Battista Biggio

Battista Biggio, Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Cagliari, Italy, was named an IEEE Fellow for contributions to the security of machine learning.

Tsong Yuen Chen

Tsong Yuen Chen, Professor of Software Engineering at Swinburne University of Technology, was named an IEEE Fellow for contributions to software testing through the invention of metamorphic testing and adaptive random testing.

John Grundy

John Grundy, ARC Laureate Professor of Software Systems and Cybersecurity at Monash University, was named an IEEE Fellow for contributions to automated software engineering. He is also an Australian Laureate Fellow and a past President of Computing Research and Education (CORE) Australasia.

Timothy Hospedales

Timothy Hospedales, Head of AI Research Europe at Samsung Research and Professor at the University of Edinburgh, was named an IEEE Fellow for contributions to data-efficient machine learning and meta-learning.

Jiankun Hu

Jiankun Hu, Professor in the School of Systems and Computing at The University of New South Wales (UNSW), was named an IEEE Fellow for contributions to biometrics security and anomaly intrusion detection.

Zi Helen Huang

Zi Helen Huang, Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at The University of Queensland, was named an IEEE Fellow for contributions to multi-modal data management.

Joaquim Jorge

Joaquim Jorge, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Universidade de Lisboa, was named an IEEE Fellow for contributions to sketch-based interfaces, modeling, and virtual reality.

Andreas Krause

Andreas Krause, Professor of Computer Science and Chair of the ETH AI Center at ETH Zurich, was named an IEEE Fellow for contributions to active sensing, Bayesian optimization, and learning-based control.

Debdeep Mukhopadhyay

Debdeep Mukhopadhyay, Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur and Director of the Secured Embedded Architecture Lab (SEAL), was named an IEEE Fellow for contributions to the design and analysis of hardware security primitives.

Wenjian Yu

Wenjian Yu, Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Technology at Tsinghua University, was named an IEEE Fellow for contributions to parasitic extraction, circuit simulation, and related numerical methods. 

Wanlei Zhou

Wanlei Zhou, Vice Rector in the Faculty of Data Science at City University of Macau, was named an IEEE Fellow for contributions to cybersecurity and privacy.

Haibin Zhu

Haibin Zhu, Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics at Nipissing University, was named an IEEE Fellow for contributions to collaboration theory, models, and systems.

ACM Distinguished Members – 2025 Class

• Ali C. Begen, Professor of Computer Science, Özyeğin University
• Constantine Dovrolis, Director of the Center for Computational Science and Technology (CaSToRC) at The Cyprus Institute, Professor, School of Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Zhouchen Lin, Professor, School of Intelligence Science and Technology, Peking University
• Xiapu Luo, Professor, Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
• Kim Marriott, Professor, Department of Human-Centred Computing, Monash University
• Cecilia Mascolo, Professor, Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge
• Md Saidur Rahman, Professor, Graph Drawing and Information Visualization Lab, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
• Johannes Schöning, Professor of Computer Science, Institute for Computer Science, University of St. Gallen
• Elena Simperl, Professor of Computer Science, Department of Informatics, King’s College London
• Richa Singh, Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Jodhpur
• R. Venkatesh Babu, Professor, Department of Computational and Data Sciences, Indian Institute of Science
• Yu Wang, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University
• Xin Xia, Chief Expert of Software Engineering Application Technology, Huawei Technologies, China
• Yingfei Xiong, Associate Professor with Tenure, Institute of Software, Peking University
• Min Zhang, Professor, Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University

Celebrating Impact and Engaging the Community

CRA extends its heartfelt congratulations to this year’s ACM, IEEE, and AAAI Fellows and ACM Distinguished Members. Their groundbreaking contributions continue to advance the frontiers of computing research, shaping the future of technology and society. We are especially grateful to those honorees who have dedicated their time and expertise to CRA’s mission through service on committees, mentoring programs, and leadership initiatives.

If you are passionate about computing research and looking for ways to contribute to the community, we invite you to get involved with CRA. Volunteers play a critical role in strengthening and supporting the research ecosystem. Learn more about opportunities to engage by filling out our CRA Volunteer Form today!