Nominees for ACM’s
2020 General Election
In accordance with the Constitution and Bylaws of the ACM, the Nominating Committee
hereby submits the following slate of nominees for ACM’s officers. In addition to the officers
of the ACM, five Members at Large will be elected. The names of the candidates for each office
are presented in random order below:
President ( 1 July 2020 – 30 June 2022):
Elizabeth Churchill, Google
Gabriele Kotsis, Johannes Kepler University Linz
Vice President ( 1 July 2020 – 30 June 2022):
Yannis Ioannidis, “Athena” Research Center and University of Athens
Joan Feigenbaum, Yale University and Amazon Web Services, Inc.
Secretary/Treasurer ( 1 July 2020 – 30 June 2022):
Jeff Jortner, Sandia National Laboratories
Elisa Bertino, Purdue University
Members at Large ( 1 July 2020 – 30 June 2024):
Alfred Spector, Two Sigma
John C.S. Lui, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
Tom Crick, Swansea University
Susan Dumais, Microsoft
Sanjiva Prasad, IIT Delhi
Mehran Sahami, Stanford University
Alejandro Saucedo, The Institute for Ethical AI & Machine Learning
Nancy M. Amato, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
The Constitution and Bylaws provide that candidates for elected offices of the ACM may
also be nominated by petition of one percent of the Members who as of 1 November 2019
are eligible to vote for the nominee. Such petitions must be accompanied by a written
declaration that the nominee is willing to stand for election. The number of Member
signatures required for the offices of President, Vice President, Secretary/Treasurer,
and Members at Large, is 739.
The Bylaws provide that such petitions must reach the Elections Committee before
31 January 2020. Original petitions for ACM offices are to be submitted to the ACM Elections
Committee, c/o Pat Ryan, COO, ACM Headquarters, 1601 Broadway, 10th Floor, New York,
NY 10019, USA, by 31 January 2020. Duplicate copies of the petitions should also be sent
to the Chair of the Elections Committee, Gerry Segal, c/o ACM Headquarters. Statements
and biographical sketches of all candidates will appear in the May 2020 issue of
Communications of the ACM.
The Nominating Committee would like to thank all those who helped us with
their suggestions and advice.
Alexander L. Wolf, c hai r,
Sarita Adve, Chris Hankin, Abhiram Ranade, Chris Stephenson