Professor Aravind Srinivasan Named 2014 ACM Fellow

The Association for Computing Machinery has named Professor Aravind Srinivasan (CS, UMIACS, and AMSC) as a 2014 ACM Fellow.  He joins 46 other fellows from universities, industry, and research labs who have been cited for their contributions to computing research and development.  The new fellows are also hailed for their achievements that are “driving innovation and sustaining economic development around the world.”

About the award, Srinivasan said, “I feel an enormous sense of gratitude for several people and institutions: our own UMD, its faculty, staff and students; family and friends; and several colleagues, educators, and mentors.”

“Aravind Srinivasan is brilliant and I am so glad that we were able to recruit him to the University of Maryland,” said Professor Samir Khuller, Elizabeth Stevinson Iribe Chair of Computer Science.  Khuller added, “His thinking and insights in randomization are simply unparalleled, and he has both developed and applied a lot of the techniques in the field, to very practical problems. His work is both foundational and practical at the same time.”

Srinivasan adds this accolade to an already impressive list of awards. He is also fellow of AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science), IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) and he holds three patents.  He currently serves as the Vice Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on the Mathematical Foundations of Computing, and he is the Editor-in-Chief of the ACM Transactions on Algorithms (TALG).

In addition to teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in theoretical computer science, Srinivasan does research in the area of randomized algorithms, networking, social networks, and combinatorial optimization. He also works on the growing confluence of algorithms, networks, and randomness, in fields including the social Web, learning, public health, biology, and energy. He has published more than 100 papers in these areas, in journals including Nature, Journal of the ACM, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, and the SIAM Journal on Computing.

After completing his B.Tech in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, Srinivasan earned both his M.S. and Ph.D in Computer Science from Cornell University in 1993. He became a Joint Postdoctoral fellow for the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton (which he later joined), as well as a postdoctoral fellow for DIMACS (Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science) at Rutgers University. After earning tenure at the School of Computing, National University of Singapore, he moved to Bell Laboratories before finally joining the CS Department at the University of Maryland as an Associate Professor in 2001.  He became a full professor in the Computer Science Department in 2006.

Srinivasan joins Professors Vic Basili, Larry Davis, Ray Miller, Jack Minker, Dana Nau, Dianne O’Leary, Hanan Samet, and Ben Shneiderman as an ACM Fellow.

Please read ACM’s press release here.

About the ACM Fellows Program:

The ACM Fellows Program, initiated in 1993, celebrates the exceptional contributions of the leading members in the computing field. ACM will formally recognize the 2014 Fellows at its annual Awards Banquet in June 2015 in San Francisco.