Three Tsinghua alumni elected as 2019 ACM Fellows

On December 12th, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) announced the 2019 ACM Fellows, who were three Tsinghua alumni: Li Xiangyang from the 1995 cohort of the Department of Computer Science and Technology, Xie Yuan from the 1997 cohort of the Department of Electronic Engineering, and Song Xiaodong from the 1996 cohort of the Department of Physics were elected. A total of 58 scholars from around the world were elected this year, including seven Chinese scholars.

Li Xiangyang

Xie Yuan

Song Xiaodong

Founded in 1947, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is the world's largest educational and scientific computing society. It has over 100,000 members and its publications consist of some of the most respected academic journals in the field of information. The Turing Award, awarded by ACM (A.M. Turing Award), is widely recognized as the "Nobel Prize" in the computer sciences world. ACM formally established the ACM Fellows system in 1993. A rigorous selection process is used to decide which experts have made outstanding contributions in the computer field each year, and those experts selected are honored as ACM Fellows. By 2019, a total of 1,221 scholars worldwide had been elected as ACM Fellows, including 43 who graduated from mainland Chinese universities.