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The Association for Computing Machinery named Samir Khuller, the Peter and Adrienne Barris Chair of Computer Science, an ACM Fellow. This award recognizes the top 1% of ACM members for “outstanding” accomplishments in computing and information

“Samir’s leadership as chair has transformed CS at Northwestern over the past few years,” said computer science Prof. Larry Birnbaum. “It’s great to see this welldeserved recognition of his scholarship and leadership from the national and international community of CS scholars.” experience space — more than they would if they just looked at pictures online.

ACM Fellows are peer-nominated and assessed by a committee. There are 57 total ACM Fellows this year. Khuller was recognized for algorithm design contributions as well as community-building and mentoring.

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Khuller is a member of the NU CS Theory Group and has published almost 200 journals and papers on graph algorithms, discrete optimization, scheduling and computational geometry.

The CS professor was also named a 2021 Fellow of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science and has received the 2020 CRA-E Undergraduate Research Faculty Mentoring Award.

Khuller also won a five-year, $10 million National Science Foundation Harnessing the Data Revolution award last year as the co-principal investigator of the on Jupiter for the first time, many of them don’t believe it’s real. It’s always a real thrill to show people things like this that they’ve only read about.” jeremyfredricks2026@u.northwestern.edu

Institute for Data, Econometrics, Algorithms and Learning at NU.

“I am truly honored, and frankly a bit surprised, to receive this recognition,” Khuller said in a statement. “I have been fortunate to work with amazing students and colleagues who constantly inspire me.”

The induction ceremony will take place June 10 during the ACM Awards Banquet in San Francisco, California.

Kaavya Butaney