ACADEMIA
ACM names 2014 Distinguished Members
2014 Members Recognized for Contributions to Hardware, Software and Communications
ACM (the Association for Computing Machinery) www.acm.org has designated 49 scientists, engineers and educators as Distinguished Members for their individual contributions, and their singular impacts on the vital field of computing. Their achievements have had a significant influence on the social, economic and cultural areas of daily lives all over the world. The 2014 Distinguished Members are from universities in Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Netherlands, Sweden, Japan, India, the United Kingdom and North America, and from leading international corporations and research institutions.
ACM President Alexander Wolf hailed these ACM members as “drivers of the advances and inventions that are propelling the information revolution in new directions. Their creativity and commitment to their craft ensures that we will benefit as a society in the digital age.” He added that these innovators “demonstrate the advantages of ACM membership, which empowers and inspires a bold vision for advancing computing and the computing community.”
The ACM Distinguished Member program can recognize the top 10 percent of ACM worldwide membership based on professional experience as well as significant achievements in the computing field. ACM’s current worldwide membership exceeds 100,000.
Eighty percent of the 2014 recipients are from leading international academic institutions around the world. The rest represent prominent corporate and national research laboratories from North America, Europe, India and Japan. Their achievements in critical computing areas include innovative instruction and curriculum design, systems design and architecture, critical systems security, Internet structure and security, high performance computing, human-computer interaction, programming languages, mobile and wireless networks, database research and management, software engineering.
For more information about the selection criteria and the 2014 Distinguished Members, click on
Distinguished Members
The following ACM Members have been recognized as 2014 Distinguished Educators:
Stephen Hilary Edwards
Virginia Tech
Jeffrey Gray
University of Alabama
Mark J. Guzdial
Georgia Institute of Technology
Kevin Wayne
Princeton University
The following ACM Members have been recognized as a 2014 Distinguished Engineers:
Jose Nelson Amaral
University of Alberta
Sreeranga P. Rajan
Fujitsu Laboratories of America
The following ACM Members have been recognized as 2014 Distinguished Scientists:
Gabriele Anderst-Kotsis
Johannes Kepler University, Linz Austria
Paul Barford
University of Wisconsin
Clark Barrett
New York University
Patrick Baudisch
Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam
Valeria Bertacco
University of Michigan
Judith Bishop
Microsoft Research
Martin Burtscher
Texas State University
Danny Z. Chen
University of Notre Dame
Jianer Chen
Texas A&M University
Ed H. Chi
Google Inc.
Allison Druin
University of Maryland
Matthew Flatt
University of Utah
Silvia Giordano
University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI)
Ganesh L. Gopalakrishnan
University of Utah
Marco Gruteser
Rutgers University
Lynda Hardman
CWI (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica)
Simon Harper
University of Manchester
Ahmed Helmy
University of Florida
Yiwei Thomas Hou
Virginia Tech
Kristina Höök
Mobile Life, KTH (Royal Institute of Technology) Sweden
Ihab Francis Ilyas
University of Waterloo
Somesh Jha
University of Wisconsin
David R. Kaeli
Northeastern University
Li Erran Li
Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent
Xiang-Yang Li
Illinois Institute of Technology
Jason Xiaowen Liu
Florida International University
Dmitri Loguinov
Texas A&M University
Gabriel Loh
AMD Research
Robyn Lutz
Iowa State University
Tamiya Onodera
IBM Research – Tokyo
Manish Parashar
Rutgers University
Nitendra Rajput
IBM Research, India
Lawrence Rauchwerger
Texas A&M University
Binoy Ravindran
Virginia Tech
Timothy Peter Sherwood
University of California, Santa Barbara
Rajeev Shorey
TCS Innovation Lab, Cincinnati,USA/Bangalore, India
Krishna Moorthy Sivalingam
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Mike Spreitzer
IBM Research, Yorktown Heights
Biplav Srivastava
IBM Research, India
Miroslav N. Velev
Aries Design Automation, LLC
Duncan Moore “Hank” Walker
Texas A&M University
Hui Xiong
Rutgers University
Lenore D. Zuck
University of Illinois at Chicago