IEEE Computer Society Announces 2025 Class of Fellows

LOS ALAMITOS, Calif., (December 19, 2024) – Today the IEEE Computer Society (IEEE CS) announced that 53 IEEE CS members and 14 IEEE members evaluated by the IEEE CS Fellow Evaluation Committee will be elevated to IEEE Fellow grade in 2025. The grade of IEEE Fellow recognizes exceptional distinction in the engineering profession.

The IEEE Board of Directors received 1058 nominations and 338 members were elevated to the 2025 Fellow status. IEEE CS members and associates recommended for Fellow status in 2025 include:

• Balu Adsumilli - for contributions to video processing and pervasive user- generated online video content
• Raheem Beyah - for contributions in rogue device detection in the field of cybersecurity
• Michael Brown - for contributions to in-camera color image processing
• Jessica Bian – (Fellow citation under review by the IEEE Fellow Committee)
• Yuriy Brun - for contributions to software bias mitigation and to software engineering automation
• Battista Biggio - for contributions to the security of machine learning
• Pin-yu Chen - for contributions to machine learning robustness and AI safety
• Tsong Yueh Chen - for contributions to software testing through the invention of metamorphic testing and adaptive random testing
• Xiaofeng Chen - for contributions to verifiable computation and verifiable storage in cloud computing
• Xueqi Cheng - for contributions to web search and social network analysis
• Xiaowen Chu - for contributions to algorithms for communication-efficient distributed machine learning
• Ronald Demara - for contributions to runtime reconfigurable computing and resilient datapath design
• Liping Di - for contributions to geoinformatic technology for Earth observations
• John Grundy - for contributions to automated software engineering
• Indranil Gupta - for contributions to reliable large-scale distributed systems
• Hiroshi Harada - for technical leadership and contributions in wireless smart utility networks and software-defined cognitive radio
• Ran He - for contributions to face analysis and image synthesis
• Bingsheng He - for contributions to big data systems in the areas of many-core architectures and cloud-based systems
• Volker Hilt - for leadership in multimedia communication and cloud-based software systems
• Timothy Hospedales - for contributions to data-efficient machine learning and meta- learning
• Jiankun Hu - for contributions to biometrics security and anomaly intrusion detection
• Xiangji Huang - for contributions to information retrieval, web search, natural language processing, conversational systems, and their applications
• Zi Huang - for contributions to multi-modal data management
• Trent Jaeger - for contributions to research and education for operating systems and software security
• Aamer Jaleel - for contributions to High-Performance Cache Design and Memory- Aware Scheduling
• Daxin Jiang - for contributions to context-aware search and language scaling approaches
• Joaquim Jorge - for contributions to sketch-based interfaces, modeling and virtual reality
• Charles Kamhoua - for contributions to blockchain and game theory applied to cybersecurity
• John Kim - for contributions to the design and analysis of high-performance interconnection network architectures
• Andreas Krause - for contributions to active sensing, Bayesian optimization, and learning-based control
• Christopher Kruegel - for contributions to security, malware detection and vulnerability analysis
• Jiye Liang - for contributions to multi-granularity data modeling and graph data mining
• Shengcai Liao - for contributions to face and person image analysis and recognition
• Dan Li - for contributions to data center network designs
• Yunxin Liu - for contributions to the design and development of intelligent and efficient mobile systems
• Jiajia Liu - for contributions to vehicular edge computing and security, wireless mobile network evaluation, and optimization
• Yiorgos Makris - for contributions to machine-learning-based design of trusted and reliable integrated circuits
• Sebastien Marcel - for contributions to biometric presentation attack detection
• Yasuyuki Matsushita - for contributions to photometric 3D modeling and computational photography
• Debdeep Mukhopadhyay - for contributions to design and analysis of hardware security primitives
• Amiya Nayak - for contributions to wireless ad hoc networks and cybersecurity
• Surya Nepal - for contributions to cybersecurity, trust and privacy in distributed systems
• Stuart Oberman - for contributions to GPU computing for artificial intelligence
• Patrick Schaumont - for contributions to the implementation and evaluation of hardware security
• Abdallah Shami - for contributions to methods for virtualized networks and optical access design
• Larry Smarr - for contributions to supercomputing and metacomputer cyberinfrastructure
• Noah Snavely - for contributions to computer vision and computer graphics
• Peilin Song - for contributions to imaging-based integrated-circuit diagnostics and detection
• Dong Tian - for contributions to 3D video compression, processing, and analysis
• Nalini Venkatasubramanian - for contributions to the foundations of adaptive software and its application in enhancing community safety
• Brent Waters - for contributions to cryptography and attribute-based encryption
• Steve Wilton - for contributions to debugging methodologies and low-power FPGAs
• Robert Wisniewski - for leadership in high-performance computing software and systems
• Wei-li Wu - for contributions to study of data communication and processing in wireless sensor networks
• Chuan Wu - for contributions to resource scheduling in cloud computing and distributed machine learning systems
• Chunsheng Xin - for contributions to secure resource sharing and core network control for resilient computing
• Jianliang Xu - for contributions to mobile data management and trustworthy query processing
• Shouyi Yin - for contributions to energy-efficient AI chip architectures
• Wenjian Yu - for contributions to parasitic extraction, circuit simulation and related numerical methods
• Jing Yuan - for contributions to trajectory data mining and social computing
• Yanning Zhang - for contributions in dynamic visual information reconstruction and recognition
• Yongdong Zhang - for contributions to Internet multimedia processing and analysis
• Jie Zhou - for contributions to visual content recognition and search
• Wanlei Zhou - for contributions to cyber security and privacy
• Roozbeh Jafari - for contributions to sensors and systems for digital health paradigms
• Hongtu Zhu - for contributions to data integration in medical imaging and genetics, and applying learning in ridesharing
• Haibin Zhu - for contributions to collaboration theory, models, and systems

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 2025 Fellow Class and learn about the process, or nominate an IEEE Computer Society senior member, visit the Fellow website at https://www.ieee.org/membership/fellows/index.html.

To view the current 2024 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.