FY’24 Committees and Working Group Archive

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

Below is a list of the CRA Committees and Working Groups for FY24 (July 1, 2023 – June 30, 2024).

Committees

The CRA Committee on Communications develops a communications plan for CRA, which details how CRA communicates important information to key stakeholders.

Matt Hazenbush (CRA) Chair
Kirk Cameron (Virginia Tech)
Gillian Hayes (University of California, Irvine)
Lori Pollock (University of Delaware)
Rachel Pottinger (University of British Columbia)

The CRA Committee on Elections 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) Chair
Alan Edelman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Ming Lin (University of Maryland at College Park)
Divesh Srivastava (AT&T)

The CRA Committee on Finance oversees the CRA budget and audits. It is chaired by the CRA Treasurer (an elected officer).

James Allan (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) Chair
Sandhya Dwarkadas (University of Virginia)
Peter Harsha (CRA)
Daniel Lopresti (Lehigh University)
Jacob Wolkenhauer (CRA)

The CRA Committee on Organizing the 2024 Career Mentoring Workshops organizes CRA’s Career Mentoring Workshops, which provide valuable career advice and mentoring activities to people just beginning or in the early stages of their computing research careers.

Arvind Krishnamurthy (University of Washington) Co-chair
Ming Lin (University of Maryland at College Park) Co-chair
Tracy Camp (CRA)
Kinnis Gosha (Morehouse College)
Fatma Ozcan (Google)

The CRA Committee on Organizing the 2024 CRA Conference at Snowbird is responsible for the organization of CRA’s 2024 flagship conference.

Maria Gini (University of Minnesota) Co-Chair
Rachel Pottinger (University of British Columbia) Co-Chair
Divesh Srivastava (AT&T) Co-Chair
Tracy Camp (CRA)
Diana Franklin (University of Chicago)
Raquel Hill (Spelman College)
Jaime Teevan (Microsoft)

The Surveys Committee oversees the content and operation of the annual CRA Taulbee Survey and reports on the resulting data. It may also recommend other surveys as appropriate.

Stu Zweben (The Ohio State University) Chair
Katie Siek (Indiana University) Vice Chair
Betsy Bizot (CRA)
Rainey Jemigan (CRA)
Kate Larson (University of Waterloo)
Lydia Tapia (University of New Mexico)
Jing Xiao (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)

The CRA-Deans Group was established to provide leadership and community to emerging and established colleges of computing and interdisciplinary “IT” schools. The group is organized around schools of computing, schools of information, and/or schools of information technology with heads that report directly to the Provost or Chief Academic Officer at a university.

Eunice Santos (Illinois), Chair
Keith Marzullo (UMD), Vice Chair
Dennis Livesay (MI Tech), Secretary

Working Groups

The CRA Working Group on Governance reviews the CRA governance processes and proposes modifications to enable CRA to better fulfill its mission. This group also reviews bylaws and suggests revisions to bring them up to date with current practices.

Dan Grossman (University of Washington) Chair
Alex Aiken (Stanford University)
Tracy Camp (CRA)
Raquel Hill (Spelman College)
Hridesh Rajan (Iowa State University)
Chris Ramming (VMware)

The CRA Working Group on Misconduct Issues discusses issues related to misconduct such as sexual harassment, bullying, abuse of power imbalances, and other similar issues, while developing best practices and proposing potential solutions.

Katie Siek (Indiana University) Chair
Kim Hazelwood (Meta)
Sarita Schoenebeck (University of Michigan)
Gene Spafford (Purdue University)
Heather Wright (CRA)

The CRA Working Group on Socially Responsible Computing defines the scope and develops a strategy to establish CRA as a leader in promoting socially responsible computing research.

Ran Libeskind-Hadas (Claremont McKenna College) Co-chair
Shashi Shekhar (University of Minnesota) Co-chair
Lorrie Cranor (Carnegie Mellon University)
Stephanie Forrest (Arizona State University)
Daniel Lopresti (Lehigh University)
Helena Mentis (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
Eve Schooler (University of Oxford)
Forrest Shull (Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Critical Technologies)
Amanda Stent (Colby College)
Jaime Teevan (Microsoft)

Awards Committees

Distinguished Service and A. Nico Habermann Awards

The CRA Committee on Awards – Nominations works independently from the Awards Selection Committee to encourage nominations to the CRA Habermann Award and the CRA Distinguished Service Award.

Gene Spafford (Purdue University) Chair
Alan Edelman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Yolanda Gil (University of Southern California)
Mary Jane Irwin (Pennsylvania State University)
Arvind Krishnamurthy (University of Washington)
James Kurose (University of Massachusetts)
Kate Larson (University of Waterloo)
Eunice Santos (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Forrest Shull (Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense)
Alexander Wolf (University of California, Santa Cruz)

The CRA Committee on Awards – Selection works independently from the Awards Nominations Committee. It reviews the nominees for the A. Nico Habermann and Distinguished Service Award and makes recommendations to the Board, which votes on the awardees at the February Board meeting.

Diana Franklin (University of Chicago) Chair
Maria Gini (University of Minnesota)
William Gropp (University of Illinois)
Kim Hazelwood (Meta)
Samir Khuller (Northwestern University)
Katherine Yelick (University of California, Berkeley)

Additional Awards 

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.

2023-24 Selection Committee:

Michael Hilton, Carnegie Mellon University, Co-Chair
Steve Swanson, University of California, San Diego, Co-Chair
Alex Psomas, Purdue University
Anna Rafferty, Carleton College
Bo Zhu, Dartmouth College
Brittany Duncan, Nebraska-Lincoln University
Hadi Hosseini, Pennsylvania State University
Jonathan Bell, Northeastern University
Matt Weinberg, Princeton University
Ovidiu Daescu, University of Texas, Dallas
Rahmat Beheshti, University of Delaware
Tracy Hammond, Texas A&M University

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.

2023-24 Selection Committee:

Denys Poshyvanyk (William & Mary), Co-Chair
Gary Holness (Clark University), Co-Chair
Monica Anderson (University of Alabama)
Renee Bryce (University of North Texas)

This annual award is given to a woman in computer science and/or engineering who has made significant research contributions in computer science and/or engineering and has also contributed to the profession, especially in outreach to women.

Sandhya Dwarkadas (University of Virginia)
Holly Rushmeier (Yale University)

This annual award is given to a person who identifies as a member of a group underrepresented in computing (African-American, Latinx, Native American/First Peoples, and/or People with Disabilities), who has made significant research contributions in computer science and/or engineering and has also contributed to the profession, especially in outreach to underrepresented populations.

Chad Jenkins (University of Michigan)
Meredith Ringel Morris (Google)

Programmatic Committees

Center for Evaluating the Research Pipeline (CERP)
Committee on Widening Participation (CRA-WP)
Computing Community Consortium (CCC)
Education (CRA-E)
Government Affairs
Industry (CRA-I)