LOS ALAMITOS, Calif., 12 December 2018 – Forty-nine IEEE Computer Society (IEEE-CS) members and 15 IEEE members evaluated by the IEEE-CS Fellow Evaluation Committee will be elevated to IEEE Fellow grade in 2019. The grade of Fellow recognizes unusual distinction in the profession.

The IEEE Board of Directors elevated 295 members to Fellow status for 2019, compared with296 for 2018. IEEE-CS members and associates recommended for Fellow status in 2019 include:

Edward Adelson— Massachusetts Institute of Technology- MIT

Michael Backes—Saarland University

Meng-fan Chang—National Tsing Hua University

Deming Chen—University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

Jong-Deok Choi—Seoul National University (SNU)

Paul Chow—University of Toronto

Peter Clout—Vista Control Systems, Inc.

Michael Condry—Intel Corporation

Kerstin Dautenhahn—University of Waterloo

Xiaotie Deng— Peking University

Meng Hwa Er— Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Joseph Evans— University of Kansas

Robert Fish—Netovations LLC

Dimitrios Fotiadis—University of Ioannina

Mark Fox—University of Toronto

Anne Gattiker—IBM, Inc.

Simson Garfinkel—U.S. Census Bureau

Anne Gattiker—IBM, Inc.

Mor Harchol-balter—Carnegie Mellon University

Ahmed Hassan—Queens University

Xiaodong He—Redmond Microsoft

Ahmed A-g Helmy—Redmond Microsoft

Gang Hua—Stevens Institute of Technology

Hans-arno Jacobsen—University of Toronto

Lee Jaejin—Seoul National University

Hai Jin—Huazhong University of Science & Technology

Irwin King—The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Farinaz Koushanfar— University of California, San Diego

Hai Li— Duke University

Shaoying Liu—Hosei University

Cristina Lopes— University of California-Irvine

Tim Menzies—North Carolina State University

Onur Mutlu—Swiss Federal Institute of Technology- ETH Zurich

Jason Nieh—Columbia University

Danilo Pau—STMicroelectronics

Srinivasan Ramani—International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore

Mary Ellen Randall—Ascot Technologies Inc.

Amit Roy-chowdhury—University of California, Riverside

Dan Rubenstein—Columbia University

Stuart Rubin—Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center

Rajiv Sabherwal—University of Arkansas

Kyuseok Shim— Seoul National University

Mei-ling Shyu— University of Miami

Ramesh Sitaraman—University of Massachusetts

Dawn Song—University of California, Berkeley

Chi-keung Tang—Hong Kong University Science & Technology

Jian Tang—Syracuse University

Zhuowen Tu—University of California, San Diego

Paul Vanoorschot—Carleton University

Xiaofeng Wang—Indiana University

Liang Wang—National Lab of Pattern Recognition

Simon Warfield—Boston Children’s Hospital

John Turner Whitted—NVIDIA Corporation

Zhaohui Wu—Zhejiang University

Eric Xing—Carnegie Mellon University

Ming-hsuan Yang—University of California at Merced

Xiaokang Yang—Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Hiroto Yasuura—Kyushu University

Moustafa Youssef—Egypt-Japan University of Science & Technology

Yizhou Yu—University of Hong Kong

Daqing Zhang—Peking University

Mengjie Zhang—Victoria University of Wellington

Lin Zhong—Rice University

Jingren Zhou— Alibaba Group

Lidong Zhou— Microsoft Research, Inc.

Michael Zyda—University of Southern California

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 about the IEEE Fellow Program, visit www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/fellows/

To view past Computer Society Fellow Class lists, visit:

https://www.computer.org/volunteering/awards/fellows

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.