ACM Fellow Research Articles

2023 ACM Fellow: Stefan Saroiu, Microsoft.

My friend and Microsoft colleague Stefan Saroiu was recently named an ACM Fellow. I had the pleasure of interviewing him over email about his work and career.

Are the bibliometric growth patterns of excellent scholars similar? From the analysis of ACM Fellows

The growth of excellent scholars provides paradigmatic career paths leading to research success, as their research capabilities ultimately manifest as fluctuations in bibliometric indexes. Examining the commonalities in the trajectories of these bibliometric indexes displays the universal characteristics of their growth process, and furtherly shows exemplary routes to scientific success. In this study, we examine 287 excellent scholars elected as ACM Fellows in the field of computer science from 2016s to 2020s. Based on their changes in productivity, impact, and comprehensive abilities, we categorize them into three categories, four categories, and six categories, respectively. Most of these scholars experience continuous growth in productivity during the early development stages, maintaining a prolonged period of high productivity in the mid-later maturity stages. Their impact rises smoothly and consistently, while the growth of their comprehensive abilities is relatively gradual, remaining at above-average levels in the mid-later maturity stages. Furthermore, the level of recognition within the scientific research community varies for different categories of scholars, and there are also differences in the growth patterns between scholars from Asia and those from Western regions.

A study on the election factors of ACM Fellow based on the co-authorship relationship

Most of past researches on successful scientist groups focused on the winners of international top-renowned awards. ACM Fellow as an academic honor of Computing Machinery field was rarely investigated. This article focuses on the research of the relationship between Fellows’ success and their co-authorship characteristics with previous Fellows. We selected a list of ACM Advanced Member Grades from 2015 to 2020 in 4 sub-domains as the empirical object, then set relevant indicators to indicate the cooperative relationship to analyze the relationship between their cooperation with previous Fellows and whether they can successfully be awarded as Fellows according to the correlation analysis and binary logistic regression method. The results show that the existence of a cooperative relationship with the previous Fellow is indeed beneficial to the Fellow candidate's selection. The more previous Fellows a candidate works with, the better chance they have of being elected as a Fellow, but the co-growth fellows are the main factor. Moreover, during the cooperation period, the total amount of the candidates’ own publications and the more their own contributions in the cooperation, the more conducive to success. Our results reflect a possible closing of the Fellowship circle, but also correct for biases about honorary award opportunism.

In Memoriam: William A. Wulf

Computing pioneer and ACM Fellow William A. Wulf died on March 10, 2023, in Charlottesville, VA, USA. He was 83.

An Interview with Kalyanmoy Deb 2022 ACM Fellow

Prof. Kalyanmoy Deb has been named one of the 2022 ACM Fellows for "Outstanding Contributions That Propel Technology Today", in particular for his "technical contributions in evolutionary multi-objective optimization algorithms and multi-criterion decision support." Kalyanmoy kindly agreed to answer all our questions, ranging from his seminal contributions to his views and perspectives on evolutionary computation and its role within computing science and artificial Intelligence.

An interview with Dana Scott

ACM Fellow and A.M. Turing Award recipient Dana Scott reflects on his career.

Juliana Freire Speaks Out on Reproducibility and Hard Changes

Welcome to ACM SIGMOD Record's series of interviews with distinguished members of the database community. I am Marianne Winslett, and today I have here with me Juliana Freire, who is a professor at New York University. Juliana is an ACM Fellow, and she has a Google Faculty Research Award, an IBM Faculty Award, and an NSF Career Award. She is also the chair of SIGMOD, and her term of office ends in just a few days. Juliana's Ph.D. is from Stony Brook. So, Juliana, welcome!

Women in Networks: Dr. Lili Qiu

Lili Qiu is an assistant managing director at Microsoft Research Asia, in charge of MSRA Shanghai lab, and a professor in the Computer Science (CS) Department at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research interests are Internet and wireless networks. She received her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from Cornell University in 1999 and 2001, respectively. After graduation, she spent 2001–2004 as a researcher in the System & Networking Group at Microsoft Research Redmond. She joined the University of Texas (UT), Austin in 2005, and has founded a vibrant research group working at UT. She is an ACM Fellow and IEEE Fellow. She is honored to serve as the ACM SIGMOBILE Chair. She also received an NSF CAREER award, Google Faculty Research Award, and best paper awards at ACM MobiSys '18 and IEEE ICNP '17.

An Interview with Nachiappan Nagappan - ACM Fellow 2020

Nachiappan (Nachi) Nagappan is one of the five ACM Fellows of the 2020 cohort who are also active SIGSOFT members. To celebrate his award, we invited him to a question/answer session. Nachi earned his PhD from North Carolina State University (NCSU), USA, in 2005. Afterwards he was with Microsoft Research for more than 15 years, rising through the ranks from Software Engineer to Partner Researcher. In January 2021, he started in a new position with Facebook. Nachi's research interests are in the field of Software Engineering focusing on Software Reliability, Developer Productivity, Software Data Analytics and Empirical Software engineering. More broadly, he works on software analytics for improving software engineering practices. His work is strongly interdisciplinary and his research projects span the spectrum of software analytics ranging from developer productivity, large scale mining for GitHub, empirical software engineering analytics for the development process, intelligent software design for games, to predicting software service outages for cloud services. Nachi has been the recipient of many honors and best paper awards. For example, in 2019 and 2021, he and his co-authors won the ESEC/FSE test-of-time award, and in 2020 Nachi received the prestigious Harlan D. Mills Award.

An Interview with Laurie Williams - ACM Fellow 2020

Laurie Williams is one of the five ACM Fellows of the 2020 cohort who are also active SIGSOFT members. To celebrate her award, we invited her to a question/answer session.

Author placement in Computer Science: a study based on the careers of ACM Fellows

Author placement in Computer Science: a study based on the careers of ACM Fellows

An Interview with Lionel Briand - ACM Fellow 2020

Lionel Briand is one of the five ACM Fellows of the 2020 cohort who are also active SIGSOFT members. To celebrate his award, we invited him to a question/answer session. Lionel is professor of software engineering and has shared appointments between the University of Ottawa and the University of Luxembourg. He holds a Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) and an ERC Advanced grant. Over the last 25 years, Lionel has been an engineer, a researcher, a research institute department head, a research center leader, a university professor, and a consultant in the IT industry. His experience spans six countries and over the years he has run research and innovation projects with or worked for 30+ industry partners and public institutions. He has not only an impressive publication and research record as well as a long list of awards but also has served as editor-in-chef, editorial board member, steering committee member, general chair and program chair of top-level journals and conferences in the software engineering community.

ACM fellows and distinguished members in SIGCSE

ACM has recently announced the 2020 Fellows and Distinguished Members

Susan Davidson Speaks Out on Collaborating with Other Research Areas and Balancing Work and Family

Welcome to ACM SIGMOD Records series of interviews with distinguished members of the database community. I'm Marianne Winslett, and today we're at the 2017 SIGMOD and PODS conference in Chicago. I have with me Susan Davidson, who's a professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Sue is an ACM Fellow, a Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and the recipient of the 2017 IEEE Technical Committee on Data Engineering Impact Award. Sue has served as the chair of her department, Deputy Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science, a member of the NSF Cise Advisory Committee, and as the chair of the Computing Research Association. Sue's Ph.D. is from Princeton University. So, Sue, welcome.

An interview with Darrell Whitley 2019 ACM fellow

Professor Darrell Whitley has become one of the 2019 ACM Fellows "Recognized for Far-Reaching Accomplishments that Define the Digital Age". Members of the SIGEVO executive board sent Darrell a set of questions.

Natassa Ailamaki Speaks Out on How to be a Systems Researcher and How to Manage a Large Research Group

Welcome to ACM SIGMOD Record's series of interviews with distinguished members of the database community. I'm Marianne Winslett, and today we're at the 2017 SIGMOD and PODS conference in Chicago. I have here with me Anastasia Ailamaki, who's a professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, better known as EPFL. Before that, Natassa was a professor at Carnegie Mellon. She's an ACM Fellow, a Sloan Fellow, and received the European Young Investigator Award, as well as ten Best Paper awards. After this interview, she received the Edgar F. Codd Innovation Award from the ACM SIGMOD in 2019, and the Nemitsas Prize in Computer Science from the President of the Republic of Cyprus in 2018. Her Ph.D. is from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. So, Natassa, welcome!

Michael Franklin Speaks Out on Data Science

Welcome to ACM SIGMOD Record series of interviews with distinguished members of the database community. I'm Marianne Winslett, and today we're at the 2017 SIGMOD and PODS conference in Chicago. I have here with me Mike Franklin, who is the chair of the Computer Science department at the University of Chicago. Before that, for many years, Mike was a professor at Berkeley where he also served as a chair of the Computer Science division. Mike was a co-founder and director of the Algorithms, Machines, and People Lab, better known as the AMPLab. He is an ACM fellow, a two-time winner of the SIGMOD Ten Year Test of Time Award, and a founder of the successful startup, Truviso. Mike's Ph.D. is from the University of Wisconsin Madison. So, Mike, welcome!

Andrew Chien Speaks Out on the Impact of Current Trends in Architecture

Welcome to ACM SIGMOD Records series of interviews with distinguished members of the database community. I'm Marianne Winslett, and today, we're at the 2017 SIGMOD and PODS Conference in Chicago. I have here with me Andrew Chien who's a professor at the University of Chicago. Andrew is an ACM fellow, an IEEE fellow, and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Before joining Chicago, Andrew spent five years as the vice president/director of Intel Research. Andrew's Ph.D. is from MIT.

Timos Sellis Speaks Out on Research in Australia and Greece

Welcome to ACM SIGMOD Record's series of interviews with distinguished members of the database community. I'm Marianne Winslett, and today we are in Snowbird, Utah, USA, site of the 2014 SIGMOD and PODS conference. I have here with me Timos Sellis, who is a professor at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology1. Before that, he was at the National Technical University of Athens and the University of Maryland. He is an ACM Fellow and an IEEE Fellow, and he has a VLDB 10-Year Paper Award. His PhD is from Berkeley.

Member spotlight

In this feature of the Bulletin, we highlight members of the SIGCSE community. In this issue, Bulletin co-editor Leo Porter interviewed Mark Guzdial. Mark Guzdial is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan and an ACM Fellow. He was awarded the 2019 SIGCSE Award for Outstanding Contribution to Computer Science Education. He will receive the award and offer a keynote address at the upcoming SIGCSE symposium.