LOS ALAMITOS, Calif., 24 September 2024 – The IEEE Computer Society (IEEE CS) today announces that Grace A. Lewis, currently serving as 1st Vice President of the IEEE CS, has been voted IEEE CS 2025 president-elect (2026 president).
Grace A. Lewis is a Principal Researcher at the Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute (SEI) where she conducts applied research on how software engineering and software architecture principles, practices, and tools need to evolve in the face of emerging technologies. She is the principal investigator for the Automating Mismatch Detection and Testing in Machine Learning Systems project that is developing toolsets to support these two activities, in addition to other projects that are advancing the state of the practice in software engineering for machine learning (SE4ML). Lewis is also the lead for the Tactical and AI-Enabled Systems (TAS) applied research and development team at SEI. She has been on the IEEE CS Board of Governors since 2020 and served as Vice President of Technical and Conference Activities from 2021 to 2023.
Lewis will serve as the 2026 IEEE CS president for a one-year term beginning 1 January 2026. The president oversees IEEE CS programs and operations and is a nonvoting member of most IEEE CS program boards and committees.
Lewis garnered 3,131 votes, compared with 1,335 votes cast for Charles (Chuck) Hansen, an IEEE Fellow and a Distinguished Professor, Emeritus in the Kahlert School of Computing and a founding member of the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute at the University of Utah.
The 2024 election had a 13.59% turnout with 4,615 ballots cast. The turnout percentage was higher than the 2023 election which had a 12.79% turnout (4,428 ballots cast). The turnout percentage was lower than the 2022 election which had a 14.01% turnout (4,945 ballots cast).
2025 VICE PRESIDENT
Nils Aschenbruck, a Full Professor of Computer Science at Osnabrueck University, Germany, whose research focus is on dependable and robust networked systems including scenario modeling, traffic engineering, and network security was elected vice president with 2,261 votes.
Terry Benzel, an Associate Director of the University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute, who leads research teams in cutting-edge research in network security, cyber experimentation methods, and the analysis of complex systems, garnered 2,146 votes
BOARD OF GOVERNORS
The six elected members of the Board of Governors for a three-year term from 1 January 2025 to 31 December 2027 are:
- Sven Dickinson – University of Toronto (1,829 votes)
- Alfredo Goldman – University of São Paulo (USP) (1,975 votes)
- Daniel S. Katz – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2,301 votes)
- Yuhong Liu – Santa Clara University (1,900 votes)
- Ladan Tahvildari – University of Waterloo (1,811 votes)
- Damla Turgut – University of Central Florida (1,991 votes)
Results for other Board of Governors candidates:
- Fernando Bouche – Smithsonian Institution (1,218 votes)
- Ümit V. Çatalyürek – AWS & Georgia Institute of Technology (961 votes)
- Alvin Chin – Discovery Partners Institute (1,283 votes)
- Saptarshi Ghosh – Intel Corporation (1,450 votes)
- Jimmy (Xiangji) Huang – York University, Toronto, Canada (1,078 votes)
- Cyril Onwubiko – Barclays (1,727 votes)
- Andrejs Romanovs – Riga Technical University (Latvia, EMEA) (1,203 votes)
- Shui Yu – University of Technology Sydney (1,198 votes)
Candidates on the ballot are selected by the IEEE CS Nominations Committee or by petition. The Nominations Committee accepts nominations from members until March of the next year and presents its nominations to the Board of Governors for final slate approval.
Results of the 2024 IEEE CS election will be published in the December issue of Computer.
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