On December 8th, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) announced its list of 2022 ACM Distinguished Members. This prestigious recognition was awarded to 67 scientists, educators, and engineers worldwide. Among the recipients were Prof. Liu Xuanzhe and Prof. Hao Dan from the School of Computer Science, who were honored as "ACM Distinguished Scientists" for their outstanding contributions to the field of computing.
ACM, founded in 1947, is the world's first scientific and educational computing society and is currently the largest academic organization in the field of computer science. It boasts over 100,000 members in more than 190 countries and regions and is renowned for awarding the ACM Turing Award, considered the highest honor in the field of computer science. The ACM Distinguished Scientist program began in 2006, recognizing ACM members with at least 15 years of professional experience in computer science, a minimum of 5 years of ACM professional membership, and significant contributions or impact in the field of computer science. Currently, there are only over 700 scholars globally who hold the title of ACM Distinguished Scientist.
Professor Liu Xuanzhe's primary research areas include system software and service computing. He has long been engaged in research related to the design principles, engineering implementation, and metric optimization of large-scale distributed systems, including cloud computing, web services, and machine learning. He has published more than 80 papers in conferences such as WWW, ICSE, FSE, ASPLOS, NSDI, and TSE and has received numerous honors, including the National Technology Invention Award, the Ministry of Education Youth Science Award, the CCF-IEEE CS Young Scientist Award, and the Peking University "Top Ten Teachers." He has also served as an editorial board member for journals like IEEE TMC, ACM TIST, and "Chinese Science: Information Science," and as a joint program chair for international conferences such as IEEE ICWS 2023 and IEEE EDGE 2020. Notably, Professor Liu Xuanzhe is a graduate of the Peking University Department of Computer Science and Technology (the predecessor of the School of Computer Science) Class of 1999, and two of his former undergraduate classmates, Alumni Tian Yuanyuan (currently Principal Scientist at Microsoft Gray Systems Lab) and Alumni Mei Qiaozhu (currently a professor at the University of Michigan), were elected as "ACM Distinguished Scientists" in 2020 and 2017, respectively.
Professor Hao Dan's main research areas are software engineering and software testing. She has been involved in research related to test case generation, reduction, and automated execution, as well as compiler testing. She has published multiple papers in conferences such as ICSE, FSE, ASE, ISSTA, ECOOP, TOSEM, and TSE, receiving several ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Awards. She has also been honored with the Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence Science and Technology Second Prize and the Okawa Research Grant from Japan. Professor Hao Dan serves as an associate editor for international journals like ACM Computing Surveys, IEEE TSE, STVR, and EMSE, and she has been a joint program chair for international conferences such as ASE 2021 and AST 2015.
It is worth noting that the 2022 ACM Distinguished Members are spread across countries and regions including the United States, China, the United Kingdom, Japan, Australia, Singapore, and India. They all work at top universities, companies, and research institutions and specialize in various fields such as software engineering, artificial intelligence, data mining, information security, among others.
