On January 19, the International Computer Society (ACM) announced the 2021 ACM Fellow List, with 71 scientists from the United States, China, Canada, Germany, Australia, Japan, South Korea and other countries, who have made extensive and fundamental contributions in the fields of knowledge graph, cloud database, machine learning, chip design, software testing and other fields. Among them, 12 Chinese scientists were selected, including Tang Jie (Tsinghua University), Xie Tao (Peking University), Liu Tieyan (Microsoft Research Asia) and Li Feifei (Alibaba Cloud) from Chinese mainland.
Gabriele Kotsis, Chairman of ACM, said, "Computer professionals have made leaps and bounds in the way we live, work and play, and each new technology is the result of a clever synthesis of individual contributions from many male and female scientists, often building on contributions that have emerged over decades. But technological progress is impossible without the fundamental components of individual contributors. The ACM Fellows program recognizes the creativity and hard work of ACM members whose concrete achievements have made broader progress possible. In announcing the new Fellows each year, we congratulate ACM Fellows on the impact they have had and the many areas of computing technology in which they work. ”
In terms of institutional distribution, 52 of the 71 scholars selected for the ACM Fellow work in the United States. In second place was China, with four scholars from Tsinghua University, Peking University, Microsoft Research Asia, and Alibaba Cloud. Israel, Italy and Germany each included 3 scholars, India 2 scholars, belgium, France and Canada each 1 scholar.
From the perspective of field direction, the selected scholars include most of the research fields of computer science, from the most theoretical combinatorial mathematics, to computer architecture, computer systems, cloud database systems, to cryptography, computer security, computer graphics, machine learning, big data analysis, but also computer education and health and other application fields. In particular, a number of scholars in the field of artificial intelligence and machine learning have been selected in their fields, including algorithms, information extraction, and scalability machine learning, and applications include health, medical, and social media.
The scholars selected for the ACM Fellow are basically all from academic institutions (or have dual positions in both academic institutions and enterprises), with a few exceptions from Microsoft Research scholars in various places, as well as Shaz Qadeer from Novi, The Digital Wallet Division of Meta (i.e., Facebook), whose research direction is software testing and programming languages.
Among them, some of the scholars Chinese mainland include:
Jie Tang, Tsinghua University
For contributions to information and social network mining
Selected for his contributions to the field of information and social media
Feifei Li, Alibaba Cloud
For contributions to query processing and optimization and to cloud database systems
Selected for his contributions to query processing, optimization, and cloud database systems
Liu Tieyan, Microsoft Research Asia
For contributions to machine learning algorithms and their applications
Selected for machine learning algorithms and their applications
Xie Tao, Peking University
For contributions to software testing and analytics
Selected for contributions in the field of software testing and analysis
Chinese scientists who do not work on the mainland include:
Hu Xiaobo
University of Notre Dame
Contributed to the design of power-constrained and real-time embedded systems
Edward Chang
Stanford University
Contributions to scalable machine learning and healthcare
David Z. Mr.
University of Texas at Austin
Contribution to electronic design automation in manufacturing design and physical design
Wenping Wang，
Texas A&M University
Contributions to geometric modeling and computer graphics
Hai “Helen” Li
Duke University
Contributions to neuromorphic computing and deep learning acceleration
Zhao Yanbin (Ben Y. Zhao)
University of Chicago
Contributions to peer-to-peer systems and online social networks
Zhong Lin
Yale University
Contribution to mobile and networking systems
Li Ninghui
Purdue University
Contribute to data privacy, access control, and trust management
Ming-Hsuan Yang
Yonsei University, Google, University of California, Merced
Contributions to visual tracking, face processing, and low-level vision
The full list is as follows:
Founded in 1947, the International Computer Society is the world's first scientific and educational computer society, and currently has more than 100,000 members in more than 130 countries and regions around the world. As the world's most influential professional academic organization in the field of computing, ACM's Turing Award (A.M. Turing Award) is recognized as the Nobel Prize in the field of computing in the world.
Established in 1993, ACM Fellow is an honor awarded by ACM to Fellow Members in recognition of the top 1% of ACM members who have achieved outstanding achievements in computing and information technology, and the review process is rigorous, with annual selections nominated by their peers and reviewed by a distinguished selection committee.
More information about ACM Fellows 2021 and previous ACM Fellows is available through https://awards.acm.org/fellows.
You can also visit the AMiner ACM Fellow Talent Pool to view an inventory of selected scholars over the years.
https://vip.aminer.cn/talent/open/eb_show/61dbd0ec6750f8217620fe4c?from=da