Congratulations to 2025 ACM Fellows
Celebrating Women Trailblazers in Computing
By Adriana Wilde
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has named the 2025 class of ACM Fellows, one of its highest honours recognising outstanding contributions to computing and information technology. These Fellows represent the top 1 % of ACM’s global membership and are celebrated for their exceptional technical achievements and impact on the field.
We are delighted to recognise the women in this distinguished cohort whose work spans systems and networking, data management, visualisation, human-AI interaction, machine learning, security, and information ecosystems; and whose leadership continues to inspire the next generation of computing professionals.
Here are the women honoured as ACM Fellows for 2025:
Angela Bonifati
Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1
For foundational contributions to the theory and systems of graph databases and data integration.
Pei Cao
YouTube
For contributions to web caching, search engine efficiency, and information quality.
Sheelagh Carpendale
Simon Fraser University
For expanding the diversity of data comprehension through innovative interactive visualisations.
Cristina Conati
University of British Columbia
For contributions to research in Human-AI interaction and AI-driven personalisation.
Nandita Dukkipati
Google
For contributions to congestion control, transport performance, and end-host network stacks.
Zi Helen Huang
University of Queensland
For contributions to large-scale multimedia content understanding, indexing and retrieval.
Athina Markopoulou
UC Irvine
For contributions to internet measurement and privacy-enhancing technologies.
Sylvia Ratnasamy
UC Berkeley
For transformative work in networks and networked systems, including decentralized data structures.
Cynthia Rudin
Duke University
For leadership and contributions in interpretable machine learning and societal applications.
Kate Starbird
University of Washington
For research advancing understanding and improvement of information ecosystems, especially during crisis events.
Stephanie Weirich
University of Pennsylvania
For outstanding contributions to static type systems and the mechanised mathematics of programming languages.
Rebecca N. Wright
Barnard College
Recognised for distinguished contributions in computer security and cryptography.
Li Xiong
Emory University
For contributions to privacy-preserving and secure data sharing and analytics.
This remarkable group joins 71 professionals selected as ACM Fellows in 2025 for technical excellence that continues to advance computing science and technology across the globe.
Congratulations to all the women honoured as ACM Fellows this year! Your achievements for your exceptional work illuminate a path forward for future innovators in computing. The ACM-W Communications team will reach out for your availability for a feature interview in our newsletter in the coming weeks from acmw-communications@acm.org
🎓 Here’s to your continued leadership, inspiration, and impact!