On January 24, local time, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) officially announced the list of 68 members elected as ACM Fellows for 2023. These individuals have made significant contributions in fields such as algorithm design, computer graphics, cybersecurity, energy-efficient computing, mobile computing, software analysis, and web search. Among the newly elected Fellows, 14 are Chinese scholars, including Professor Chen Haibo from Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
Alumni Profile
Gao Jianfeng
- School: Shanghai Jiao Tong University, School of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering
- Current Positions:
- Vice President at Microsoft
- IEEE Fellow
- ACM Distinguished Member
- Head of Deep Learning Group at Microsoft Research Institute
- Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington
During his doctoral studies at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Gao Jianfeng developed Shanghai's first proprietary CAD system, BYLCAD, and was involved in the overall design of the national 863 Program – Hainan New Continent parallel engineering project. He has published 19 academic papers in both Chinese and English journals.
From 2000 to 2005, Gao served as the research leader in the Natural Language Computing Department at Microsoft Research Asia, where he collaborated on developing the first Chinese speech recognition system in Microsoft Office. This system became the leading market product for Chinese and Japanese input method editor (IME) and Microsoft Windows natural language platform. From 2006 to 2014, he was Chief Researcher of the Natural Language Processing Department at Microsoft Research headquarters in Redmond, focusing on research and development in Internet search, query understanding, rewriting, advertising prediction, and statistical machine translation systems. From 2014 to 2017, he served as Research Manager of the Deep Learning Technology Center at Microsoft Research headquarters in Redmond, leading research in deep learning for text and image processing. Since 2022, he has been leading research on self-improving AI, including enhancements and adaptations of LLM (such as ChatGPT/GPT-4) for commercial AI system development.
Chen Haibo
- Position: Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Distinguished Professor
- Director: Institute of Parallel and Distributed Systems
- Director:Engineering Research Center of Domain Operating Systems, Ministry of Education
- National Level High-Level Talent
- IEEE Fellow
Chen Haibo is a distinguished professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, serving as the director of the Institute of Parallel and Distributed Systems and the Engineering Research Center of Domain Operating Systems under the Ministry of Education. He is a national-level high-level talent and an IEEE Fellow. His primary research areas include operating systems, distributed systems, and system security. His research results have been deeply integrated into billions of devices through a combination of industry, academia, and research, producing extensive academic and industrial impact. He has received numerous awards, including the Chen Jiageng Youth Science Award (Information Technology Science Award), the Chinese Youth Science and Technology Award, the first prize of the Ministry of Education Technology Invention Award, the National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award, and the CCF Young Scientist Award. Currently, he serves as the founding chairman of the OpenHarmony Technical Steering Committee, the first Chinese scholar editor and co-chair of ACM's flagship magazine Communications of the ACM, co-chair of the ACM EuroSys 2025 Program Committee, and the first non-North American chair of ACM SIGOPS.
His research work has received the Huawei Excellent Contribution Individual Award, best paper awards at conferences such as SOSP, ASPLOS, EuroSys, VEE, DSN "Time Tested Award," SIGMOD Research Highlights Award, etc. According to csrankings.org, his number of papers published in top conferences SOSP/OSDI in the field of operating systems in the past five years (2019-2023) ranks first globally. The book he co-authored, "Modern Operating Systems: Principles and Implementations," won the 2020 "Most Beloved IT Book Award" and the 2022 Shanghai Jiao Tong University Best Undergraduate Textbook Award (renamed to "Operating Systems: Principles and Implementations" in the new edition), widely adopted by universities, research institutions, and enterprises.
Award Introduction
Founded in 1947, ACM is the world's first scientific and educational computing society and the most influential professional academic organization in the global computing field. It currently has over 100,000 members in more than 130 countries and regions. The Turing Award, awarded by ACM, is recognized as the Nobel Prize of the computing field worldwide.
ACM Fellow is elected by peer review once a year to recognize scholars who have made transformative contributions and breakthroughs in computer science, technology, and leadership. The review process is extremely rigorous, with Fellows comprising only 1% of ACM's global membership, reflecting ACM's highest recognition of its members.