Meritorious Service Certificate
The Meritorious Service Certificate is the second highest level service certificate. A certificate is given for meritorious service to an IEEE Computer Society-sponsored activity. Qualification is enhanced by the level and number of contributions, excellence, dedication, and tenure of service. Examples are: any significant role in one activity such as an editorship, committee or conference support of unusual and/or continuing nature, and service as a Computer Society officer, committee, or conference general or program chair.
Nomination Deadline:
31 December 2023The award nomination requires a minimum of 2 endorsements.
NOMINATIONS ARE ACCEPTED THROUGHOUT THE YEAR.
2023 Service Certificates Subcommittee Chair
Mark Allen Weiss
Florida International University
2021 Recipients
| 2021 | George Proeller | For outstanding service as Chair of the IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitor Program, Vice Chair of the inaugural Distinguished Contributor Program, and many years of service as a key volunteer with the IEEE Computer Society’s MGA Board. |
| 2021 | Aparna Chandramowlishwaran | For service as General Co-Chair for the 2021 International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS) |
| 2021 |
Karen Karavanic
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For service as Program Chair for the 2021 International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS) |
| 2021 | David A. Bader | For service as General Co-Chair for the 2021 International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS). |
Note: Recipients are listed starting from the top with the most recent award given within the year.
2016 Recipients
| 2016 | Jalel Ben-Othman | For sustained outstanding service contributions in the area of wireless networks |
| 2016 |
Jeffrey Hollingsworth
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For service as Program Chair for the 2016 International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS) |
| 2016 | Klaus Mueller | For significant and longstanding contributions to the IEEE VIS Conference and to the VGTC, including service as elected Chairman |
| 2016 | Manish Parashar | For service as General Chair for the 2014 International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS) |
| 2016 | Nian-Shing Chen | For exceptional service as Chair of IEEE Technical Committee on Learning Technologies and Chairing IEEE ICALT Conferences for 2013-2016 |
| 2016 | Richard Fairley | In recognition of his many years of dedicated service and outstanding support of the Computer Society’s educational activities. |
| 2016 | Samee Khan | For outstanding leadership and service contributions to the IEEE committees, conferences, workshops and journals in the area of computer systems |
| 2016 | Steve Goddard | In recognition of his outstanding leadership, as a leader and the Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Real-Time Systems |
| 2016 | Xian-He Sun | For service as General Chair for the 2016 International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS) |
Note: Recipients are listed starting from the top with the most recent award given within the year.
2015 Recipients
| 2015 | Susamma Barua | For service as General Co-Chair for the 2015 International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium – IPDPS 2015. |
| 2015 |
R. Govindarajan
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For service as General Co-Chair for the 2015 International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium – IPDPS 2015. |
| 2015 | Srinivas Alura | For service as Program Chair for the 2015 International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium – IPDPS 2015. |
| 2015 | Robin Baldwin | In recognition of outstanding service in support to Computer Society Magazines in 2013 and 2014. |
| 2015 | Hong Mei | For dedicated and outstanding contributions for 15 years to IEEE COMPSAC, Computer Society’s signature conference on computers, software and applications. |
| 2015 | Hongji Yang | For his sustaining and outstanding contributions since 1994 to IEEE COMPSAC, Computer Society’s signature conference on computers, software and applications. |
Note: Recipients are listed starting from the top with the most recent award given within the year.
2014 Recipients
| 2014 | Bojan Cukic |
For leading the Steering Committee of the IEEE Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering in the role of Vice Chair.
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| 2014 |
Huansheng Ning
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For Exemplary service as the Joint Executive Chair of the 2013 World Cybermatics Congress (IEEE iThings / CPSCom / GreenCom 2013).
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| 2014 | Dennis Frailey |
In recognition of three decades of leadership, guidance and timeless efforts in establishing the Computer Society’s Course Development Program.
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2013 Recipients
| 2013 | Patrick Flynn | For his continuing years of service to the pattern recognition and biometrics community as panelist, reviewer, editor, workshop organizer / member and conference organizer / committee member. |
| 2013 | Sanjay Madria | In recognition of outstanding service contributions to IEEE SRDS 2011-2012 and IEEE MDM 2010 Conferences. |
| 2013 | Leszek Lilien | In recognition of outstanding service as Program Chair to the IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems in 2012. |
| 2013 | Dave Walden | In recognition of outstanding contributions to the Annals of the History of Computing. |
| 2013 | Luanne Johnson | In recognition of outstanding contributions to the Annals of the History of Computing, including Guest Editing. |
| 2013 | Rachael Brady | For numerous outstanding contributions over 15+ years in developing both the administrative aspects of the IEEE VIS Conference. |
| 2013 | Ram Chillarege | For chairing the ISSRE Steering Committee, and leadership in keeping ISSRE a vibrant and exciting conference. |
| 2013 | Sherali Zeadally | For outstanding leadership and service contributions to conferences, workshops, IEEE Journal Special issues in the area of computer networking and information security. |
2012 Recipients
| 2012 | Hilarie Orman | In recognition of outstanding services and contributions to the Technical Committee on Security and Privacy. |
| 2012 | Xun Luo |
For energetic and imaginative leadership and contributions as Vice Chair of the Geographic Unit Operations Committee of the IEEE Computer Society Member and Geographic Activities Board.
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| 2012 | Satish Babu | For exemplary leadership in coordinating and conducting the first Computer Society Chapter Chair training in India. |
| 2012 | William Eklow | In recognition of major contributions and leadership as the 2011 General Chair to the IEEE International Test Conference Program Committee and for the completion of five years of continuous service to the ITC Steering Committee in 2012. |
| 2012 | Minglu Li | For service as General Co-Chair for the 2012 International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS). |
| 2012 | Cho-Li Wang | For service as General Co-Chair for the 2012 International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS). |
| 2012 | Hongzi Zhu | For service as Local Arrangements Co-Chair for the 2012 International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS). |
| 2012 | Leonid Oliker | For service as Program Co-Chair for the 2012 International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS). |
| 2012 | Katherine Yelick | For service as Program Co-Chair for the 2012 International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS). |
| 2012 | Pieter Botman | For outstanding leadership as Chair of the Geographic Unit Operations Committee of the IEEE Computer Society Member and Geographic Activities Board. |
| 2012 | John Swan | For outstanding leadership as the Chapter Chair responsible for revitalization of the IEEE Computer Society Santa Clara Valley Chapter. |
| 2012 | H.R. Mohan | For outstanding and sustained contributions as the Chair of the Madras Chapter of the IEEE Computer Society. |
| 2012 | Shianling Wu | For endorsing exhibits and serving in various capacities, including Program Committee member and Panelist, at the International Test Conference (ITC) since 2003. |
| 2012 | Azzedine Boukerche | In recognition of significant services as a founding leader for several workshops and fostering an international research community on performance evaluation of wireless ad hock networking and mobile computing. |
| 2012 | Annette Reilly | For outstanding leadership in the development of ISO/IEC/IEEE 15289:2011 systems and software engineering – content of life-cycle information products (documentation). |
| 2012 | Mukesh Mohania | For contribution to IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems and other conferences. |
2011 Recipients
| 2011 | Baochun Li | In recognition of your gratefully acknowledged service as the Technical Program Committee Co-Chair of the 19th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP 2011). |
| 2011 | Sheha Kasera | In recognition of your gratefully acknowledged service as the Technical Program Committee Co-Chair of the 19th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP 2011). |
| 2011 | Jonathan Herzog | For outstanding innovative service to the Computer Security Foundations Symposium as Publications Chair and Electronic Proceedings Archive Editor |
| 2011 | Ron Press | In recognition of excellent leadership in guiding the successful 2010 International Test Conference |
| 2011 | Alan Sussman | In recognition for outstanding service as General Chair for the 2011 International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS). |
| 2011 | Frank Mueller | In recognition for outstanding service as Program Chair for the 2011 International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS). |
| 2011 | Ragunathan Rajkumar | For the distinguished service given as Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Real-Time Systems 2009-2011. |
| 2011 | Marco Caccamo | For the distinguished organization as General Chair of the Cyber Physical Systems Week 2011, held in Chicago 11-14 April 2011. |
| 2011 | Giovanni De Micheli | In recognition for outstanding and significant services as Design, Automation & Test in Europe (DATE) General Chair 2010. |
| 2011 | Carl Chang | In recognition for outstanding service as IEEE Computer Editor-In-Chief – 2007 to 2010. |
| 2011 | Mani Srivastava | In recognition for outstanding service as IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing Editor-In-Chief – 2008 to 2010. |
| 2011 | Fabrizio Lombardi | In recognition for outstanding service as IEEE Transactions on Computers Editor-In-Chief – 2007 to 2010. |
| 2011 | David Albonesi | In recognition for outstanding service as IEEE Micro Editor-In-Chief – 2007 to 2010. |
| 2011 | Carl Landwehr | In recognition for outstanding service as IEEE Security & Privacy Editor-In-Chief- 2007 to 2010. |
| 2011 | Thomas Ertl | In recognition for outstanding service as IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics Editor-In-Chief- 2007 to 2010. |
| 2011 | Fred Douglis | In recognition for outstanding service as IEEE Internet Computing Editor-In-Chief – 2007 to 2010. |
| 2011 | Hakan Erdogmus | In recognition for outstanding service as IEEE Software Editor-In-Chief – 2007 to 2010. |
2010 Recipients
| 2010 | Jim Ziobro | For outstanding support of CS Member Activities, including developing R1 CS Chapter Chair Training and the CS Chapters Map. |
| 2010 | Cecilia Metra | In recognition of significant services as Chair of TTTC Communication Group. |
| 2010 | Cynthia A. Phillips | For service as Program Chair for the 2010 International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium. |
| 2010 | David A. Bader | For service as General Chair for the 2010 International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS). |
| 2010 | Giorgio Di Natale | In recognition of more than 8 years of significant services for TTTC Electronic Media. |
| 2010 | Kaushik Roy | In recognition of 4 years of significant services as TTTC Tutorials and Education Program Chair. |
| 2010 | Michael Nicolaidis | In recognition of 4 years of significant services as Vice-Chair of TTTC. |
| 2010 | Patrick Girard | In recognition of 4 years of significant services as TTTC European Group Vice-Chair. |
| 2010 | Stefano Di Carlo | In recognition of more than 8 years of significant services for TTTC Electronic Media. |
| 2010 | Yiorgos Markis | In recognition of significant services as Chair of TTTC Electronic Broadcast Services. |
Previous Recipients
| A. B. M. Elliott | A. Joe Turner | Adam Osseiran | Adel S. Elmaghraby |
| Adit D. Singh | Ahmed H. Sameh | Ajit Singh | Akira Masaki |
| Alan Clements | Alan M. Davis | Albert K. Hawkes | Albert S. Hoagland |
| Albert Zomaya | Alex Orailoglu | Ali R. Hurson | Alicja I. Ellis |
| Allan B. Tucker | Allen Hankinsen | Amar Mukherjee | Amr Zaky |
| Amy Gold | Anand Raghunathan | Andre Ivanov | Andrew Twigger |
| Anil K. Jain | Anne Marie Kelly | Anthony Ambler | Anthony Hutchings |
| Anthony P. Ambler | Antonis Paschalis | Anu Bhargava | Apostolos Dollas |
| Arie E. Kaufman | Arnold Rosenberg | Ashok K. Chandra | Azriel Rosenfeld |
| Barry W. Johnson | Benjamin W. Wah | Bernard P. Courtois | Bernard T. OLear |
| Bertram Herzog | Bharat K. Bhargava | Bill D. Carroll | Birger Schneider |
| Bowen Loftin | Bruce A. Weiner | Bruce C. Kim | Bruce D. Shriver |
| Bruce H. Barnes | C. Mitchell | C. V. Ramamoorthy | C.L. (Dave) Liu |
| Camie deHollan | Camie Jackson | Carl D. Warren | Carl E. Landwehr |
| Carl K. Chang | Carl Landwehr | Charles B. Silio | Charles E. Radke |
| Charles P. Pfleeger | Charles R. Vick | Charles R. Weisbin | Charles Weller |
| Chip G. Stockton | Christian Landrault | Christina E. Champion | Christina M. Schober |
| Christine Levesque | Chuan Wu | Claud Beckham | Claudio Poiani |
| Clyde R. Camp | Colin Maunder | Conrad J. Zagwyn | Cris Koutsougeras |
| Curtis Royster, Jr. | D. L. Graff | Daniel Benigni | Daniel E. OLeary |
| Daniel G. Schweikert | Daniel J. Graham | Dante Del Corso | David C. Rine |
| David E. Carlson | David G McKendry | David Grier | David J. Kriegman |
| David Jacobsohn | David L. Spooner | David Lomet | David M. Choy |
| David M. Hata | David S Reiner | David W. Bray | Deborah K. Scherrer |
| Dennis A. Yinger | Dennis W. Fife | Dharma P. Agrawal | Dhiraj K. Pradhan |
| Dick B. Simmons | Diederik Verkest | Dimitris Gizopoulos | Dines Bjorner |
| Donald Braff | Donald C. Loughry | Donald E. Folland | Donald E. Thomas |
| Donald L. Denburg | Donald W. Cragun | Donald Wheater | Donn S. Terry |
| Donna K. Cover | Doris K Lidtke | Doris L. Carver | Douglas DeGroot |
| Douglas Young | Duncan H. Lawrie | Dwight D. Hill | Earl E. Swartzlander Jr. |
| Earl J. Meiers | Edith Hayman | Edward A. Dunlop | Edward A. Parrish |
| Edward J. McCluskey | Edward M. Middlesworth | Edwin F. Martin | Elliot J. Chikofsky |
| Erik Jan Marinissen | Ernest H. Millham | Erol Gelenbe | Eugene H. Spafford |
| Ez Nahouraii | Fabian L. Vargas | Farokh B. Bastani | Fernando Osorio |
| Fikret Ercal | Fiorenza C. Albert-Howard | Fletcher J. Buckley | Forouzan Golshani |
| Francis E. Sullivan | Franco P. Preparata | Frank E. Ferrante | Fred Pool |
| Frederick Hayes-Roth | Frederick L. Taber | Frieda Koester | Gene F. Hoffnagle |
| George A. Michael | George D Tice Jr. | George Epstein | George Morrow |
| Gerald L. Engel | Gerald M. Masson | Gerald W. Gordon | Gerard F.M. Beenker |
| Gio Wiederhold | Glen G. Langdon Jr. | Gordon Adshead | Gordon C. Padwick |
| Grace C.N. Wei | Gregory M. Nielson | Gul Agha | Guylaine M. Pollock |
| H. Alan Hoover | H. Allen Curtis | H. Troy Nagle | H.C. Torng |
| Hal L. Jespersen | Hans Hagen | Hans-Joachim Wunderlich | Harold W. Carter |
| Harrick Vin | Harriett B. Rigas | Harry Bleeker | Harut Barsamian |
| Harvey A. Freeman | Helen M. Wood | Henry F. Ayling | Herbert Freeman |
| Herbert Hecht | Herbert Weber | Hideo Fujiwara | Hillel Ofek |
| Hyman Kaplan | I. Mark Haas | J. H. Aylor | J. Reese Brown |
| J. Robert Jump | Jack C. Wileden | Jack H. Arabian | Jacques G. Tiberghien |
| Jacques Kevers | James A. Ferwerda | James A. Monzel | James D. Isaak |
| James H. Aylor | James H. Cross | James J. Thomas | James M. Syck |
| James P. Lonjers | James R. Davis | James R. Slagle | James S. Royer |
| James T. Cain | James Thomas Cain | James W Moore | Jane W. Liu |
| Jason D. Zions | Jayaram Bhasker | Jean A. Gilmore | Jean M. Bacon |
| Jean Mermet | Jean Rogers | Jean-Loup Baer | Jean-Luc Gaudiot |
| Jefferey J. P. Tsai | Jeffory Yetter | Jeffrey Voas | Jill E. Sibert |
| Jim Lonjers | Jim Tice | Joan Figueras | Joao Paulo Teixeira |
| John A. Stankovic | John C. Knight | John D Nash | John D. Musa |
| John D. Spragins | John E. Bauer | John L. Cole | John M. Long |
| John Meyer | John P. Barlow | John P. Hayes | John P. Stoneback |
| John Rini | John S. Quarterman | John T. Polhemus | John W. Horch |
| John W. Walz | Jon L. Turino | Jon T. Butler | Jose A. DeFranca |
| Joseph B. Tomei | Joseph Culligan | Joseph E Urban | Joseph Gwinn |
| Joseph M. Gwinn | Joseph Mastroianni | Joseph P. Fernandez | Joseph Schallan |
| Judith M. Prewitt | Kang G. Shin | Karen D. Friedman | Karl Reed |
| Keith Barker | Kemon P. Taschioglou | Ken Sakamura | Kenneth Mandl |
| Kenneth R. Anderson | Kenneth Scholz | Kim B. Bruce | Kishor S. Trivedi |
| Kozo Kinoshita | Krishnendu Chakrabarty | Kurt | Lalit M. Patnaik |
| Lansing (Chip) Hatfield | Laszlo A. Belady Keville | Laung-Terng Wang | Laurel V. Kaleda |
| Lawrence J. Rosenblum | Leah H. Jamieson | Leon Scharff | Leonard L. Tripp |
| Lily Jow | Lionel C. Briand | Lorraine M. Duvall | Louis J. Sobotka |
| Luis-Felipe Cabrera | M. Katherine Sills | M. Ray Mercer | Magdalene A. Johnson |
| Mahadev Satyanarayanan | Mani Soma | Manuel A. DAbreu | Marcelo Lubaszewski |
| Margaret Neal | Maria C. Fernandez-Baizan | Marie E. English | Marie R. Pistilli |
| Maris W. Graube | Mark Hazzard | Mark J. Christensen | Marshall C. Yovits |
| Marshall D. Abrams | Martha Sloan | Martin Freeman | Martin J. Kirk |
| Mary Yee | Masahito Hirakawa | Mercy Kowalczyk | Merlin G. Smith |
| Michael C. Mulder | Michael F. Kramer | Michael Hannah | Michael Hines |
| Michael J. Quinn | Michael N. Huhns | Michael Nicolaidis | Michael Topsakal |
| Michel Renovell | Mike P. Papazoglou | Ming T. Liu | Mitchell Gart |
| Mohan M. Trivedi | Mohd Rahman | Motoei Azuma | Mukund U. Modi |
| Murali R. Varanas | Ned Kornfield | Nicholas Stoughton | Nick Stoughton |
| Nigel Shadbolt | Norman F. Schneidewind | Norman H. Aaronson | Oscar N Garcia |
| Osorio Colon | P. Bruce Berra | Paolo Prinetto | Patric Savage |
| Paul Bardell | Paul I. Davis | Paul J. Menchini | Paul L. Borrill |
| Paul L. Hazan | Paul Menchini | Paul R. Croll | Pen-Chung Yew |
| Peter K. Wolff Sr. | Peter N. Bronecke | Peter R. Roni | Peter Ron Prinzivalli |
| Peter S. Bottorff | Philip S. Yu | Poalo Prinetto | Raimund Ubar |
| Rajesh Gupta | Ralph J. Preiss | Ramalingam Chellappa | Rangachar Kasturi |
| Raphael A. Finkel | Ravishankar Iyer | Ray M. Ybaben | Ray Wilkes |
| Raymond P. Oberly | Richard A. Kemmerer | Richard C. Jaeger | Richard E James III |
| Richard G. Epstein | Richard H. Eckhouse | Richard H. Stern | Richard M. Sedmak |
| Richard Mateosian | Richard Smith | Rick Faubert | Robert A. Donnan |
| Robert Cogne | Robert E. Anderson | Robert H. Douglas | Robert H. Lashley |
| Robert J. Moorhead | Robert J. Reininger | Robert L. Stewart | Robert Lenk |
| Robert Long | Robert M. Aiken | Robert P. Davidson | Robert T. Merkert |
| Rodham E. Tulloss | Rodolfo F. Garcia | Roger J Martin | Roger U. Fujii |
| Rohit Kapur | Ronald D. Williams | Ronald G. Hoelzeman | Ronald Waxman |
| Rudy Garcia | Russell E. Theisen | Ruud M. Bolle | S.D. Bedrosian |
| Sakti P. Ghosh | Sallie V. Sheppard | Samuel Horvitz | Samuel T. Redwine Jr. |
| Sartaj K. Sahni | Sava I. Sherr | Shane P. McCarron | Sitharama S. Iyengar |
| Stan Magee | Stanley Winkler | Stephen F. Lundstrom | Stephen L. Diamond |
| Stephen P. Denker | Stephen R. Mahaney | Stephen S. Lavenberg | Stephen S. Yau |
| Stephen Schwarm | Steven C. McConnell | Steven R Deller | Sudhakar M. Reddy |
| Sumit DasGupta | Sunil R. Das | Susan E. Conry | Susan G. Rosenbaum |
| T. Michael Elliott | Tadao Ichikawa | Tadao Murata | Ted G. Lewis |
| Ted Tilton | Theo Pavlidis | Thomas C. Dolan | Thomas F. Laporta |
| Thomas J. Bergin | Thomas L. Hannan | Thomas M. Kurihara | Thomas W. Williams |
| Timos Sellis | Tohru Kazamaki | Tokinori Kozawa | Tosiyasu L. Kunii |
| Tse-Feng | Tse-yun Feng | Tsuneta Sudo | Uma G. Gupta |
| Nitin Vaidya | Victor Berman | Victor Champac | Victor R. Basili |
| Vishwani D. Agrawal | Vladimir Hahanov | Vladimir Nejezchleb | W Eric L. Grimson |
| W Luciw | W. Chou | W. Paulsen | W. Paulsen |
| Walter E. Proebster | Walter H. Kohler | Wayne H. Wolf | Wei-Tek Tsai |
| Wesley E. Radcliffe | Wesley W. Chu | William E. Lowd | William Habingreither |
| William Hedrick | William J. Dally | William R. Mann | William Ribarsky |
| William Rosenbluth | William Tracz | William W. Everett | Willis K. King |
| Willis K. King | Wing N. Toy | Wolfgang K. Giloi | Won Soo Kim |
| Yashwant K. Malaiya | Yervant Zorian | Yinghua Min | Yusuf Abdulghani |
| Zebo Peng |