Recognizing the First Designated Distinguished Contributors

By IEEE Computer Society Team on

March 14, 2022

Distinguished Contributor Program Introducing the first designated IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Contributors!

The IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Contributor Program was introduced in 2021 as part of the Society’s 75th Anniversary. The program showcases the immense combined technical expertise and innovation power of its membership while recognizing volunteer commitment.

In the program’s first year, 52 Charter Members and 66 members by application were awarded this designation. Along with IEEE CS Fellows Winners of named CS Technical Awards who met the minimum length of membership requirement. The Society will continue to accept applications for the program on an annual basis, with the new selection round opening in August 2022. Members who meet the minimum length of membership requirements are encouraged to apply.

Charter Members

Abielmona, Rami Bagchi, Saurabh Behmann, Fawzi Berghel, Hal Bouguettaya, Athman Cabral Duarte, Carlos Henrique Cuadros-Vargas, Ernesto Donoso Meisel, Yezid Enrique Douglis, Fred Ebert, David Elster, Anne Fahmy, Hossam M.A. Frailey, Dennis Gaudiot, Jean-Luc Gezelter, Robert Helal, Sumi Jin, Zhi Kadry, Seifedine Kaiser, Gail Kanhere, Salil Kassim, Mohamed Rawidean Mohd Kuo, Sy-Yen Lea, Perry Leeser, Miriam Liu, Ling Lomet, David McMillin, Bruce Mitra, Tulika

Murugesan, San Onwubiko, Cyril Paez, Nicholas Parhami, Behrooz Patel, Nita Paulk, Mark Peddie, Jon Popescu, Elvira Proeller, George Qiu, Meikang Quintana, Yuri Rahman, M Sohel Reisman, Sorel Rong, Chunming Shukla, Sandeep Kumar Shyu, Mei-Ling Soomro, Tariq Sousa, Leonel Spinellis, Diomidis Tripathi, Anand van Steen, Maarten Washizaki, Hironori Xu, Jiang Yusoff, Fakhrul Zanero, Stefano

2021 IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Contributors

Aboulnaga, Ashraf Addy, Edward Ahn, Jung Ho Bailey, James Bass, Julian Binder, Robert Bondurant, David Bresenham, Jack Calheiros, Rodrigo Cano, Jeimy Charalampos, Patrikakis Chrysanthis, Panos Clausen, Thomas Cummings, Roger Dimopoulos, Nikitas Fraser, Steven Goel, Sandeep Gray, Jeff Groner, Gabriel Gurumurthi, Sudhanva Harrod, Peter Hinds, Chris N. Heaton, Jeff Heaton Jin, Zhi Jorge, Joaquim Armando Pires Katz, Daniel Khan, Samee Kursh, Steven Lefurgy, Charles Leung, Carson K. Lindstrom, Peter Lorkowski, Joe Jaatun, Martin Gilje Jabbbar, Meerja Akhil

Lutz, David Mancl, Dennis Membrey, Peter Mercuri, Rebecca Milenkovic, Milan Miller, Gloria J. Morreale, Patricia Mountain, David Mueller, Gary Naef, Martin Nikolopoulos, Dimitrios Ogiela, Marek Ozdemir, Hasan Timucin

Pederson, Torben Bach Piccardi, Massimo Poellabauer, Christian Raghavan, Sridhar Sangwan, Raghvinder Simmhan, Yogesh Smith, Reid Sood, Daman Dev

Soomro, Tariq Sridharan, Vilas Thapliyal, Himanshu Vaidyanathan, Ramachandran van Hemert, Jano Walz, John Whitmire, Scott Wolfe, Andrew Wondolowski, Mike Youn, Chan-Hyun Zahran, Mohamed Zima, Hans Ziv, Avi

Congratulations to this first cohort of IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Contributors.