Announcing the Recipients of Computing's Top 30 Early Career Professionals for 2025

The IEEE Computer Society is pleased to recognize Computing's Top 30 Early Career Professionals for 2025. This esteemed group of rising stars earned this honor for their exceptional early-career achievements and role in driving advancements across the computing landscape. Their contributions span diverse areas, including AI, software engineering, security, and hardware, fundamentally shaping the future of technology.

2025 Winners

We congratulate the 2025 Computing's Top 30 Early Career Professionals:

• Jianbing Ni, Associate Professor, Canada Research Chair at Queen's University, Canada
• Ming Jin, Assistant Professor at Griffith University, Australia
• Anshul Gandhi, Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Apple, USA
• Bo Han, Associate Professor at Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
• Meng Li, Associate Researcher at Hefei University of Technology, China
• Sachin Kumar, Senior Data Scientist III at LexisNexis, USA
• Lokesh Lagudu, Senior Engineering Manager at Walmart Inc, USA
• Vignesh Sathiyamoorthy, Silicon Engineer at Microsoft, USA
• Ramesh Nair, Sr. EDA Tools Hardware Engineer at Intel Corporation, USA
• Hariharan Ragothaman, Member of Technical Staff - Software Development Engineer at Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD), USA
• Muneer Khan, Founder and Research Engineer at Cadre Tech Labs, USA
• Sai Prashanth Mallellu, Adjunct Professor, Student Affairs, Head -Training and Placement Cell and Head - Entrepreneurship and Start-up Cell at Symbiosis Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, Symbiosis International University, India
• Amod Kant Agrawal, Applied Scientist at Amazon Lab126, USA
• Basil Reji, Research Engineer at Factory Mutual (FM), USA
• Josiah Akinloye, Founder & CEO at Mainlogix Technology, Canada
• Sushant Mehta, Senior Researcher at Google DeepMind, USA
• Li Yang, Assistant Professor at Ontario Tech University, Canada
• Narayanan Rengaswamy, Assistant Professor at University of Arizona, USA
• Quanming Yao, Associate Professor at Tsinghua University, China
• Oscar Karnalim, Dean of Faculty of Smart Technology and Engineering at Maranatha Christian University, Indonesia
• Oluwakemi Temitope Olayinka, Key Account Representative at Priority1-Inc, USA
• Rohan Basu Roy, Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at University of Utah, USA
• Pranav Kumar Chaudhary, Staff Software Engineer at Apple, USA
• Vishnupriya S Devarajulu, Software Engineer at MSR Technologies, USA
• Achyut Sarma Boggaram, Sr. Machine Learning Engineer at Torc Robotics Inc., USA
• Gabriele Serra, Principal Software Engineer at Accelerat, Italy
• Priyank Desai, Sr. Software Development Manager (Head of Engineering) at Amazon, USA
• Jean Luca Bez, Research Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
• Praveen Gupta Sanka, Data Scientist at Meta Platforms Inc, USA
• Aditya Avinash Atluri, Senior Deep Learning Performance Architect at NVIDIA, USA

What Recipients Win

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

• US$1,500 Cash Prize
• One-Year IEEE Computer Society membership
• Certificate of Recognition
• A featured article and recognition on the IEEE Computer Society website

The Sunset of the Award and the Rise of Opportunity

The Top 30 Early Career Professionals award won’t continue in 2026. At the same time, there are other ways early-career professionals can make an impact, such as by:

• Being a peer reviewer for a publication or conference
• Reviewing industry standards in their area of expertise
• Participating in a technical community or local chapter
• Becoming a judge for the IEEE CS student awards

Regardless of how they do so, early-career professionals will continue to have an impact on others in the computing industry. Explore ways to join the IEEE Computer Society and volunteer to start building an influential legacy.

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 147 candidate submissions.

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