Announcing the Recipients of Computing's Top 30 Early Career Professionals for 2024

2025 NOMINATIONS OPEN

The IEEE Computer Society is proud to announce the winners of Computing's Top 30 Early Career Professionals for 2024. This recognition honors individuals who have shown exceptional achievements early in their careers and are driving advancements in computing. These rising stars are contributing to a wide range of areas, from AI, software engineering, security, and hardware, shaping the future of technology.

"The Computer Society Top 30 Early Career Professionals are a preview of the future of computing professions and of the Computer Society. I am proud of each of them for their past accomplishments and future potential. I can’t wait to see what they accomplish next!” — Andy Seely, Vice President, Member and Geographic Activities, IEEE Computer Society

"This contest celebrates the brightest minds shaping the future of technology. It’s an opportunity to recognize and inspire the next generation of innovators who are driving advancements in computing and making a significant impact early in their careers." — Josip Balen, Vice-Chair, Awards and Recognition, IEEE Computer Society

2024 Winners

We congratulate the 2024 Computing's Top 30 Early Career Professionals:

• Corey Axelowitz, Hardware Design Engineer at Axel Hardware Design, USA - [Interview]
• Subodha Charles, CEO at Alta Vision (Pvt) Ltd, Sri Lanka
• Dwith Chenna, Member of Technical Staff, Product Engineer, AI Inference at Advanced Micro Devices, USA - [Interview]
• Tejas Chopra, Senior Engineer at Netflix, USA - [Interview]
• Anastasija Collen, Senior Researcher and Lecturer, Lab co-director at the University of Geneva, Switzerland - [Interview]
• Sukanta Dey, Senior EDA Software Engineer at Intel Corporation, USA
• Jennifer Fernick, Senior Staff Security Engineer (Uber Tech Lead - Product Security Engineering) at Google, USA
• Srinimisha Morkonda Gnanasekaran, Director, Data Science at Western Digital, USA
• Valerio Guarrasi, Assistant Professor at Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Italy - [Interview]
• Harini Hapuarachchi, Vice Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Fellow at RMIT University, Australia - [Interview]
• Nipun Jaswal, Senior Director at Protiviti India, India
• Upal Mahbub, Staff Engineer at Qualcomm Technologies Inc, USA
• Bala Siva Sai Akhil Malepati, Staff Engineer at Intel Corporation, USA
• Raghvendra Mall, Director, Biotechnology Research Center at Technology Innovation Institute, United Arab Emirates
• Sukanya Sagarika Meher, AMS Staff Application Engineer at Synopsys Inc, USA - [Interview]
• Kelly Onu, Senior Cybersecurity Engineer at Ernst and Young, USA
• Tejas Padliya, Principal Software Engineer at Roche, USA - [Interview]
• Deven Panchal, AI Lead at AT&T, USA - [Interview]
• Krishna Chaitanya Pokkali, Senior Technical Program Manager at Apple, USA
• Kuralamudhan Ramakrishnan, Software Architect at Intel Corporation, USA
• Theofanis Raptis, Senior Researcher at the National Research Council of Italy, Italy
• Kamal Rudra, R&D Integration Engineer at IBM, USA
• Mohamed Shehata, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Louisville, USA
• Nishil Talati, Assistant Research Scientist at the University of Michigan, USA
• Nirmalya Thakur, Assistant Professor at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, USA - [Interview]
• Kiran V K, Assistant Professor at NSS College of Engineering, Palakkad, Kerala, India
• John Werner, Electromagnetic Compatibility and Product Safety Design Engineer at IBM, USA
• Guowen Xu, Professor at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China - [Interview]
• Zhihao (Zephyr) Yao, Assistant Professor at New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA - [Interview]
• Arun George Zachariah, Software Engineering Manager at NVIDIA Corporation, USA - [Interview]

What Recipients Win

In addition to industry recognition, this year’s honorees will receive:

• US$2,500 Cash Prize
• One-Year IEEE Computer Society membership
• Certificate of Recognition
• A featured article and recognition on the IEEE Computer Society website

Thank You to Our Judges and Volunteers

The IEEE Computer Society would like to thank and acknowledge all the volunteers who contributed to this initiative, particularly the judges who reviewed 247 candidate submissions:

Deepak Antiya, Abhishek Appaji, Jyotika Athavale, Subrata Ashe, Naga Srinivasa Rao Balajepally, Josip Balen, Sunandan Barman, Sumit Bhatia, Pranav Kumar Chaudhary, Nagaraju Dasari, Sairam Durgaraju, Naresh Erukulla, Puneet Gangrade, Shib Golder, Seetharamareddy Mohanareddy Gowda, Abhishek Gupta, Jayanna Hallur, Mayank Hindka, Singh Parveen Singh Hoshiar, Saumil Hukerikar, Ramnivas Indani, Siva Krishna Jampani, Vinay Dutt Jangampet, Prashanth Josyula, Gireesh Kambala, Raja Sravan Kumar Reddy Kamidi, Navin Kamuni, Parameswara Kandregula, Sheshananda Reddy Kandula, Uday Kanike, Hariprasad Kapilavai, Mahendhiran Krishnan, Nikhil Makhija, Fnu Meetu, Gaurav Mehta, Gaurav Mittal, Rajat Modi, Ikram Mohamed, Akshata Kishore Moharir, Sakthi Muthuswamy, Loganandh Natarajan, Uzoma Nwachukwu, Abhay Paroha, Kaushikumar Patel, Sapan Patel, Hariharan Ragothaman, Pankaj Kumar Rai, Rahul Ramachandran, Nirupam Samanta, Andrew Seely, Biswaranjan Senapati, Chetan Sharma, Jianzheng Shi, Rupesh Shirke, Tejesh Reddy Singasani, Santosh Singh, Amit Srivastava, Praveen Tripathi, Mahidhar Uppala, Raghavender Reddy Vanam, Rakesh Viparla, Abhishek Vyas, Vikas Vyas, and Satish Waybhase.