Computer Science Department’s Professor Sanmay Das was named a distinguished member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) 

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The Association for Computing Machinery has named Professor Sanmay Das a distinguished member. Das and the 51 additional inductees are longstanding ACM Members and were selected by their peers for work that has advanced computing, fostered innovation across various fields, and improved computer science education.   

Das is chair of the ACM Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence, a member of the board of directors of the International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, and serves as an associate editor of the ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation and of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research. He has served as the program co-chair of the AAMAS and AMMA conferences and area chair for AAAI and IJCAI, in addition to regularly serving as a senior program committee member of major conferences, including IJCAI, AAAI, EC, and AAMAS.  

“Sanmay Das is an internationally esteemed scholar working on foundational problems in the use of machine learning for social good, and I am thrilled that he has been recognized with this prestigious and very well-deserved honor from the ACM,” said Computer Science Department Chair David Rosenblum. 

The 2023 ACM distinguished members work at leading universities, corporations, and research institutions in Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, India, Israel, Italy, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. This year’s class of distinguished members made advancements in areas including AI and economics, principles of data management, software development, human-computer interaction, developing technology for people with disabilities, mobile and wireless sensing systems, and many others.