IEEE Computer Society Announces 2026 Class of Fellows

LOS ALAMITOS, Calif., (December 11, 2025) – Today the IEEE Computer Society (IEEE CS) announced that 52 IEEE CS members and 21 IEEE members evaluated by the IEEE CS Fellow Evaluation Committee will be elevated to IEEE Fellow grade in 2026. The grade of IEEE Fellow recognizes exceptional distinction in the engineering profession.

The IEEE Board of Directors received 1268 nominations, and 350 members were elevated to the 2026 Fellow status. IEEE CS members and associates recommended for Fellow status in 2026 include:

• Tamim Asfour - for contributions to humanoid mechatronics and cognitive humanoid robotics
• Xiang Bai - for contributions to document image processing and understanding
• Michael D Bailey - for contributions to cybersecurity and internet measurement
• Michael A Bender - for contributions to the theory of data structures and their application to storage systems
• Richard H Boivie - for contributions to NSFNET and secure computing technology
• Christoph Bregler - for contributions to human motion analysis and deepfake technology for creative use and responsible safeguarding
• Eric W Burger - for contributions to telecommunication policies with a focus on securing the next generation of networks
• Sabrina D Capitani Di Vimercati - for contributions to access control, security, and trust management.
• Sheelagh Carpendale - for contributions to empowerment and engagement through interactive data visualization
• Rong N Chang - for leadership in enterprise-grade software service composition and management automation
• Yiqiang Chen - for contributions to federated learning algorithms and standards for healthcare applications
• Yousu Chen - for leadership in high-performance computing and decision support in power systems
• Peng Cui - for contributions to network embedding and social behavioral modeling
• Debendra Das Sharma - for leadership in establishing PCI-Express, CXL, and UCIe industry-standards, fostering innovation in computing
• Rami Debouk - for contributions to automotive functional safety concepts and standards
• Robert Dick - for contributions to energy-efficient and memory-constrained embedded system design
• Marek Domanski - for contributions to video compression and its standardization
• Yunsi Fei - for contributions in side-channel analysis, protection of computing accelerators, and robust security evaluation
• Rogerio Feris - for contributions to efficient multimedia analysis and applications
• Haohuan Fu - for contributions to scalable high-performance computing and large-scale scientific data analysis
• Jing Gao - for contributions to addressing the multifaceted challenges of big data analytics
• Sandeep Goel - for contributions to test methods and defect detection in semiconductor advanced packaging systems
• Dan Hao - for contributions to software testing and debugging
• Song Jiang - for contributions to algorithms and systems development of memory and storage management
• Michael Jones - for contributions to computer vision and object detection
• Salil Kanhere - for contributions to mobile crowdsourcing and blockchains for IoT
• Rick Kazman - for contributions to the disciplines of software architecture and technical debt
• Ira Kemelmacher - for contributions to face, body, and clothing modeling from large image collections
• Florian Kerschbaum - for contributions to data security and privacy
• Engin Kirda - for contributions to improving the security of computer software, systems, and networks
• Jaydeep Kulkarni - for contributions to low-power SRAM and compute-in-memory circuit technologies
• Amruth Kumar - for development of software tutors for programming
• Shahar Kvatinsky for pioneering contributions to memristive device modeling and inmemory processing
• James Lansford -for leadership in wireless standards and wireless coexistence
• Yingshu Li - for contributions to energy conservation and topology control in wireless networks
• Shuai Li - for contributions to neural networks for intelligent system modeling, learning and optimization
• Weifa Liang - for contribution to resource allocation and optimization in edge computing and wireless networks
• Xingang Liu - for contributions to deep learning model compression and video coding algorithms in computer systems
• Yan Liu - for contributions to the methodology and application of machine learning and data mining
• Prateek Mittal - for contributions to privacy-preserving and secure systems, including creating societal impact
• Ingrid Moerman - for contributions to experiment-driven wireless research
• Martin Monperrus - for pioneering machine learning use in code assistance and program repair, impacting millions of developers
• Jianwei Niu - for contributions to security, perception and communication for mobile computing
• Tien Nguyen - for contributions to synergizing program analysis and artificial intelligence for effective automated software engineering
• Michael O Boyle - for contributions to machine learning based compilation and parallelization
• Vishal Patel - for contributions to image processing, computer vision and biometrics
• Joseph Paradiso - for contributions to wearable wireless sensing and mobile energy harvesting
• Amit Sahai - for contributions to cryptography, obfuscation and attribute-based encryption
• Xipeng Shen - for contributions to dynamic optimizations and compiler technologies in heterogeneous computing
• Yuanchun Shi - for contributions to research in natural human-computer interaction, and interdisciplinary IT-driven innovation
• Ozgur Sinanoglu - for contributions to design-for-trust and to hardware security
• Viji Srinivasan - for contributions to development of computing architectures for real-time acceleration of artificial intelligence models
• Farhana Sheikh - for contributions to digital signal processing and 2.5D/3D heterogeneous integration
• Deqing Sun - for contributions to computer vision, particularly optical flow and its applications
• Berk Sunar - for contributions to hardware security and trust in the electronics supply chain
• Lin Tan - for contributions to software text analytics, software-AI synergy, and software reliability
• Mallik Tatipamula - for leadership in advancing 5G networks and fostering adoption through public-private partnerships
• Mehmet Ulema - for leadership in the design and management of communication network architectures and protocols
• T Vijaykumar - for contributions to an integrated microarchitecture-circuit approach for low-power high-performance computer architectures
• Nisheeth Vishnoi - for contributions to algorithms, optimization, and fairness in decision-making
• Hua Wang - for contributions to evolutionary computation algorithms for data quality and applications
• Chun Xue - for contributions to performance optimization of non-volatile-memory storage systems
• Christopher Yang - for contributions to artificial intelligence in healthcare informatics
• Yi Yang - for contributions to multimedia signal processing, perception, and retrieval
• Chia-Lin Yang - for contributions to cross-layer design methodologies in memory hierarchy and computing-in-memory systems
• Wei Yu - for contributions to security and AI-powered edge devices in critical infrastructure systems
• Yong Yu - for contributions to trusted architectures for high-performance cloud-edge-user computing
• Andreas Zeller - for contributions to analyzing software and its development process
• Chengqi Zhang - for contributions to graph neural networks and time series analysis
• Wei Zhang - for contributions to agile design flow for FPGA and software-hardware co-design for embedded system security
• Hongyu Zhang - for contributions to intelligent software development and fault management
• Jianying Zhou - for contributions to applied cryptography and cyber-physical system security
• Jun Zhou - for contributions to hyperspectral data processing and analysis

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.

To view the full list of the 2026 Fellow Class and learn about the process, or nominate an IEEE Computer Society senior member, visit the Fellow website at https://www.ieee.org/communities-connection/awards-recognition/ieee-fellows or see Fellow Class of 2026 (PDF)

To view the current 2025 IEEE Computer Society Fellow Evaluating Committee or past Fellow Class lists elevated by the IEEE Computer Society Evaluating Committee, visit 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.