2015 Fellows

LOS ALAMITOS, Calif., 18 December 2014 – Sixty IEEE Computer Society members and 11 IEEE members evaluated by the CS Fellow Evaluation Committee will be elevated to IEEE Fellow grade in 2015. The grade of Fellow recognizes unusual distinction in the profession. The IEEE Board of Directors elevated 300 members to Fellow status for 2015, compared with 293 last year. Computer Society members and associates recommended for Fellow status in 2015 include:

Daniel Andrews – Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs
David August – Princeton University
Ewert Bengtsson – Uppsala University
Ricardo Bianchini – Microsoft Corporation
Kenneth Birman – Cornell University
Aaron Bobick – Georgia Institute of Technology
Azzedine Boukerche – University of Ottawa
Rajkumar Buyya – University of Melbourne
Christian Cachin – IBM Research Laboratory
Jiannong Cao – Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Joseph Cavallaro – Rice University
Elizabeth Chang – Curtin University
Xiuzhen Cheng – George Washington University
Henrik Christensen – Georgia Institute of Technology
Sajal Das – Missouri University of Science and Technology
Dipankar Dasgupta – University of Memphis
Joe Decuir – CSR Technology, Inc.
Murthy Devarakonda – IBM Watson Research Center
Peter Dinda – Northwestern University
Rolf Drechsler – University of Bremen
Stephanie Forrest – University of New Mexico
Henry Fuchs – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Pascale Fung – Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Patrick Girard – LIRMM (Laboratory of Informatics, Robotics and Microelectronics of Montpellier)
Manimaran Govindarasu – Iowa State University
S. Gunasekaran – AFRL/RIEA
Dan Gusfield – University of California at Davis
Dan Halperin – Tel Aviv University
Constance Heitmeyer – Naval Research Laboratory
Abdelsalam (Sumi) Helal – University of Florida
Joerg Henkel – Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Jianying Hu – IBM
Ravishankar Iyer – Intel Corporation
Qiang Ji – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Hong Jiang – University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Anupam Joshi – University of Maryland Baltimore County
Christoforos Kozyrakis – Stanford University
David Kriegman – University of California, San Diego
Deepa Kundur – University of Toronto
Edmund Lam – University of Hong Kong
Steven Levitan – University of Pittsburgh
Keqin Li – State University of New York
Baochun Li – University of Toronto
Ling Liu – Georgia Institute of Technology
Cheng-Lin Liu – Institute of Automation of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yunhao Liu – Tsinghua University
Wenjing Lou – Purdue University
Scott Mahlke – University of Michigan
Diana Marculescu – Carnegie Mellon University
Patrick McDaniel – Pennsylvania State University
Hong Mei – Peking University
Ethan Miller – University of California, Santa Cruz
Stefan Mozar – Dynexsys Pty Ltd.
Alexandru Nicolau – University of California, Irvine
Radha Poovendran – University of Washington
Rasheek Rifaat – Jacobs Canada, Inc.
Eric Rotenberg – North Carolina State University
Ponnuswamy Sadayappan – Ohio State University
Michael Shebanow – Samsung
Wonyong Sung – Seoul National University
James Truchard – National Instruments
Mahesh Viswanathan – IBM Corporation
Geoffrey Webb – Monash University
David Weiss – Iowa State University
Yuan Xie – Pennsylvania State University
Bulent Yener – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Wang Yi – Uppsala University
Moti Yung – Google, Inc.
Yin Zhang – University of Texas at Austin
Kun Zhou – Zhejiang University
Yuanyuan Zhou – University of California, San Diego

The Board of Directors confers the title of Fellow upon a person of outstanding and extraordinary qualifications and experience in IEEE-designated fields, who has made important individual contributions to one or more of those fields. For more information, visit www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/fellows/. To view the full list of Computer Society Fellows, go to: http://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/fellows/fellowsDirectory.html#. At the time the nomination is submitted, a nominee must: • have accomplishments that have contributed importantly to the advancement or application of engineering, science and technology, bringing the realization of significant value to society; • hold Senior Member or Life Senior Member grade at the time the nomination is submitted; • have been a member in good standing in any grade for a period of five years or more preceding 1 January of the year of elevation. The nominee cannot be a member of the IEEE Fellow Committee, an IEEE Society/Technical Council Fellow Evaluating Committee Chair, or a member of IEEE Society/Technical Council Fellow Evaluating Committees reviewing the nomination.