Wenliang "Kevin" Du is an electrical engineer at Syracuse University. He was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2023 [1] [2] for his contributions to cybersecurity education and research. He was named as an ACM Fellow in 2024 with the same citation. [3] [4]
John Leroy Hennessy is an American computer scientist who is chairperson of Alphabet Inc. (Google). Hennessy is one of the founders of MIPS Technologies and Atheros, and also the tenth President of Stanford University. Hennessy announced that he would step down in the summer of 2016. He was succeeded as president by Marc Tessier-Lavigne. Marc Andreessen called him "the godfather of Silicon Valley."
David Andrew Patterson is an American computer pioneer and academic who has held the position of professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley since 1976. He announced retirement in 2016 after serving nearly forty years, becoming a distinguished software engineer at Google. He currently is vice chair of the board of directors of the RISC-V Foundation, and the Pardee Professor of Computer Science, Emeritus at UC Berkeley.
Charles Patrick "Chuck" Thacker was an American pioneer computer designer. He designed the Xerox Alto, which is the first computer that used a mouse-driven graphical user interface (GUI).
Heung-Yeung "Harry" Shum is a Chinese computer scientist. He was a doctoral student of Raj Reddy. He was the Executive Vice President of Artificial Intelligence & Research at Microsoft. He is known for his research on computer vision and computer graphics, and for the development of the search engine Bing.
Ruzena Bajcsy is an American engineer and computer scientist who specializes in robotics. She is professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences at the University of California, Berkeley, where she is also director emerita of CITRIS.
Prabhakar Raghavan is a senior vice president at Google, where he is responsible for Google Search, Assistant, Geo, Ads, Commerce, and Payments products. His research spans algorithms, web search and databases. He is the co-author of the textbooks Randomized Algorithms with Rajeev Motwani and Introduction to Information Retrieval.
Charles R. Moore was an American computer engineer noted for his research on computer architecture. He spent much of his career working at IBM, where he was chief engineer and project co-lead for the PowerPC 601 microprocessor. He then led the POWER4 Chip Architecture project.
Lixia Zhang is the Jonathan B. Postel Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her expertise is in computer networks; she helped found the Internet Engineering Task Force, designed the Resource Reservation Protocol, coined the term "middlebox", and pioneered the development of named data networking.
Shrikanth Narayanan is an Indian-American Professor at the University of Southern California. He is an interdisciplinary engineer–scientist with a focus on human-centered signal processing and machine intelligence with speech and spoken language processing at its core. A prolific award-winning researcher, educator, and inventor, with hundreds of publications and a number of acclaimed patents to his credit, he has pioneered several research areas including in computational speech science, speech and human language technologies, audio, music and multimedia engineering, human sensing and imaging technologies, emotions research and affective computing, behavioral signal processing, and computational media intelligence. His technical contributions cover a range of applications including in defense, security, health, education, media, and the arts. His contributions continue to impact numerous domains including in human health, national defense/intelligence, and the media arts including in using technologies that facilitate awareness and support of diversity and inclusion. His award-winning patents have contributed to the proliferation of speech technologies on the cloud and on mobile devices and in enabling novel emotion-aware artificial intelligence technologies.
Rolf Drechsler is an electrical engineer at the University of Bremen, Germany. He was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2015 for his contributions in testing and verification of electronic circuits and systems. He was named as an ACM Fellow in 2023.
Zhu Han is a John and Rebecca Moores Professor of electrical engineering at the University of Houston. He was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2014 for contributions to resource allocation and security in wireless communications.
Kevin Skadron is an American computer scientist, the Harry Douglas Forsyth Professor of Computer Science. He served as department chair and served as Director of the SRC JUMP Center for Research on Intelligent Storage and Processing in Memory (CRISP), and the Center for Automata Processing (CAP), at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia. His research focuses on computer processor design under physical constraints such as temperature, power, and reliability. He and his colleagues have contributed numerous tools now widely used in the research community, including the HotSpot family of tools and the Rodinia Benchmark Suite. Skadron also helped co-found IEEE Computer Architecture Letters and served as editor-in-chief from 2010 to 2012.
Daniel P. Siewiorek is an American computer engineer and computer scientist, currently the Buhl University Professor Emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University.
Mei Hong is a Chinese computer scientist, a professor at Peking University, the director of Key Laboratory of High Confidence Software Technologies of Ministry of Education (MOE) at Peking University. He serves as President of the China Computer Federation (2020-2024), formerly the Vice President of The Academy of Military Sciences, Beijing Institute of Technology, and Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a foreign member of the Academia Europaea, a fellow of The World Academy of Sciences, an IEEE Fellow, and an ACM Fellow.
Natalie Dana Enright Jerger is an American computer scientist known for research in computer science including computer architecture and interconnection networks.
Vir Virander Phoha is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Syracuse University College of Engineering and Computer Science.
Qinru Qiu is a Chinese-American computer engineer whose research interests include efficient energy use in computing, and neuromorphic computing. She is a Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Syracuse University, and the director of the university's Electrical Engineering and Computer Science graduate program.
Britton L. T. Plourde is a professor of quantum physics at Syracuse University. He was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2023 for his contributions to integration of qubits into future practical quantum computing systems.
Pramod Kumar Varshney is a computer scientist and an electrical engineer at Syracuse University's College of Engineering and Computer Science. He is known for research on distributed detection theory.
Jian Tang is a professor of computer science at Syracuse University. He was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2019 for his contributions to optimization in wireless networks and mobile crowdsourcing systems.