Eight Microsoft researchers honored as Fellows of the Association of Computing Machinery

Microsoft today said that eight computer scientists at Microsoft research labs around the world have been honored as Fellows of the Association of Computing Machinery, the world’s largest computing society. ACM also named five Microsoft researchers to their list of Distinguished Members.

The honors recognize the individuals’ significant contributions and impact to computer science across a range of disciplines and highlight the “tremendous respect, reputation and visibility of Microsoft researchers in the external scientific and engineering community,” said Jeannette Wing, corporate vice president, Microsoft Research.

Fellows of the Association of Computing Machinery:

• Ricardo Bianchini
• Xuedong Huang
• Ravi Kannan
• K. Rustan M. Leino
• Venkat Padmanabhan
• Ganesan Ramalingam
• Abigail Sellen
• Sudipta Sengupta

ACM Distinguished Scientists:

• Gang Hua
• Suman Nath
• Tao Mei
• Yu Zheng

Read more about the eight newly named fellows and five distinguished scientists and engineers here.