Prof. CHEN Lei Named a Fellow of Association for Computing Machinery
Prof. CHEN Lei, Chair Professor of Department of Computer Science and Engineering, was named a 2024 Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for contributions to spatial data management, spatial crowdsourcing, and deep learning frameworks. He is one of only 55 Fellows elected this year worldwide for their transformative contributions to computing science and technology. The newly inducted Fellows will be formally recognized at ACM’s annual Awards Banquet on June 14, 2025, in San Francisco, California.
ACM is the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society, known for presenting the ACM A. M. Turing Award, often regarded as the “Nobel Prize of Computing”. The ACM Fellows Program recognizes the top 1% of ACM members for their outstanding accomplishments in computing and information technology and/or outstanding service to ACM and the larger computing community.
Prof. Chen’s research interests include data-driven AI, knowledge graphs, blockchains, data privacy, crowdsourcing, spatial and temporal databases, and query optimization on large graphs and probabilistic databases. He is also the Dean of Information Hub, Chair Professor of Data Science and Analytics Thrust, and Acting Head of Artificial Intelligence Thrust at HKUST(Guangzhou).
Related link:
- ACM press release (January 22, 2025): 2024 ACM Fellows Honored for Contributions to Computing That Are Transforming Science and Society
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