Prof Mohan Kankanhalli and Prof Abhik Roychoudhury from NUS Computing named ACM Fellows 2024
Professor Mohan Kankanhalli and Professor Abhik Roychoudhury from the NUS School of Computing have been honoured as 2024 Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Among the latest cohort of ACM Fellows, they stand as the sole computer scientists from a Singapore institution to receive this distinguished accolade.
The 2024 cohort of ACM Fellows comprises 55 distinguished inductees from leading universities, institutions, and tech companies around the world. One of the highest accolades in the computing field, the ACM Fellows programme recognises the top one per cent of ACM members for their exceptional contributions to advancing computing and information technology, and/or outstanding service to ACM and the larger computing community. Fellows are nominated by their peers, with nominations reviewed by a distinguished selection committee.
Prof Kankanhalli, who is also the Director of NUS AI Institute and Deputy Executive Chairman of AI Singapore, was recognised for his significant contributions to multimedia content processing and multimedia security. An authority on multimodal computing, computer vision as well as trustworthy AI, Prof Kankanhalli’s research contributions are in using multimodal semantics forimage and video understanding, as well as making multimodal models robust and safe.
Prof Kankanhalli shared, “It is a special honour to be included in such distinguished company. It is also a recognition of the outstanding students, postdocs, colleagues and collaborators with whom I was able to pursue very exciting and meaningful research. NUS and NUS Computing have supported the exploration of bold ideas, and I look forward to doing even more impactful work!”
Prof Roychoudhury, who also serves as Co-Director (Singapore) of DesCartes, was honoured for his transformative contributions to software testing and analysis, including automated programme repair and fuzz testing. His research has played a pivotal role in enhancing the reliability of software systems, addressing critical challenges in cybersecurity and system resilience.
“I am honoured to be selected as an ACM fellow for my contributions to trustworthy software systems. As I narrated in a recent interview to ACM, I feel that imagination remains the key to research—it drives the formulation of new research directions and new research problems. The qualitative outlook towards computing research, which can shape future technology that is actually being used by society, is thus at least as important as the quantitative outlook towards research (which simply measures research and often gets over-emphasised). Today the technologies for software security or automatic programming that we have built at NUS are used by practitioners on a daily basis, while still continuing to inspire new lines of thought among researchers to this day,” said Prof Roychoudhury.
NUS congratulates Prof Kankanhalli and Prof Roychoudhury on receiving this prestigious accolade and we celebrate their remarkable contributions to shaping the future of computing. Their achievements underscores NUS’ commitment to driving cutting-edge research, fostering innovation, and advancing global excellence in the field of computing.
