2021 Candidate Slate Announcement
In accordance with ACM Bylaw 6, the following SIGs will hold elections in April 2021: SIGACCESS, SIGACT, SIGAda, SIGBED, SIGBio, SIGCHI, SIGCOMM, SIGDA, ACM SIGGRAPH*, SIGEVO, SIGITE, SIGKDD, SIGMIS, SIGMOBILE, SIGMOD, SIGMM, SIGPLAN, SIGSAC, SIGSAM, and SIGSOFT.
ACM’s Policy and Procedures on SIG Elections require that those SIGs holding elections notify their membership of candidates for elected offices. Additional candidates may be placed on the ballot by petition. All candidates must be ACM Professional Members, as well as members of the SIG. Anyone interested in petitioning must inform ACM Headquarters, Pat Ryan (ryanp@hq.acm.org) and the Secretary of the SIG of their intent to petition by 16 March 2021. Petitions must be submitted to ACM Headquarters for verification by 2 April 2021.
* ACM SIGGRAPH’s election will commence on 15 June 2021.
Below is a list of SIGs that have submitted their slate of candidates.
SIGACCESS
Chair
- Matt Huenerfauth
- Yeliz Yesilada
Vice-Chair
- Donal Fitzpatrick
- Kathleen McCoy
Secretary-Treasurer
- Karyn Moffatt
- Vinod Namboodiri
SIGACT
Chair
- Tal Rabin
- Mohammad Hajiaghayi
Executive Committee
- Vijaya Ramachandran
- Martin Farach-Colton
- Shachar Lovett
- Valerie King
- Yael Kalai
- Chris Umans
- Kenneth Clarkson
SIGAda
Chair
- Tucker Taft
- Richard Riehle
Vice-Chair
- Richard Wai
- Jérôme Hugues
Secretary-Treasurer
- Luis Miguel Pinho
- Carl Brandon
International Representative
- Dirk Craeynest
- Jean-Pierre Rosen
SIGBED
Chair
- Samarjit Chakraborty
- Xue Liu
Vice- Chair
- Sayan Mitra
- Linh Thi Xuan Phan
Secretary-Treasurer
- Martina Maggio
- Pavithra Prabhakar
SIGBio
Chair
- Amarda Shehu
- May Wang
Vice-Chair
- Mario Cannataro
- Ananth Kalyanaraman
Treasurer
- Xuan Guo
- Byung Jun Yoon
Board of Directors
- Peter Elkin
- Sun Kim
- Jake Chen
- Ovidiu Daescu
- Christina Boucher
- Yi Pan
- Mindy Shi
- Nurit Haspel
SIGCHI
President / Executive Vice-President (Running as a Team)
- Regina Bernhaupt / Aaron Quigley
- Neha Kumar / Shaowen Bardzell
Vice-President for Finance
- Manjiri Joshi
- Andrew Kun
Vice-President for Membership and Communications
- Tamara Lynnette Clegg
- Simone Kriglstein
- Rucha Tulaskar
Vice-President At Large
- Luis Castro
- Sheena Erete
- Christopher Frauenberger
- Adriana Vivacqua
- Lauren Wilcox
- Naomi Yamashita
SIGCOMM
Chair
- Ellen Zegura
- Jörg Ott
Vice-Chair
- George Porter
- Matthew Caesar
Treasurer
- Jia Wang
- Roland van Rijswijk-Deij
SIGDA
Chair
- Yiran Chen
- Joerg Henkel
Executive Committee
- Aida Todri-Sanial
- Jingtong Hu
- Muhammad Shafique
- Yu Wang
- Laleh Behjat
- Preeti Ranjan Panda
- Sudeep Pasricha
- Matthew Guthaus
- Rajsaktish Sankaranarayanan
ACM SIGGRAPH
Slate to be announced.
SIGEVO
Executive Committee
- Youhei Akimoto
- Juergen Branke
- Emma Hart
- Malcolm Heywood
- Gabriela Ochoa
- Gisele L. Pappa
- Andrew Sutton
- Bing Xue
SIGITE
Chair
- Ray Trygstad
- Amos Olagunju
Vice Chair
- Svetlana Peltsverger
- Elham Ebrahimi
Secretary/Treasurer
- Russell McMahon
- Xin Tian
SIGKDD
Chair
- Balaji Krishnapuram
- Wei Wang
Secretary/Treasurer
- Hui Xiong
- Michael Zeller
Executive Committee
- Faisal Farooq
- Johannes Gehrke
- Thorsten Joachims
- Cynthia Rudin
- Geoff Webb
- Mohammed J. Zaki
- Zhi-Hua Zhou
SIGMIS
Chair
- Cindy Riemenschneider
- Craig Van Slyke
Vice-Chair
- Leigh-Ellen Potter
- Damien Joseph
- Allison Morgan Bryant
Secretary/Treasurer
- Sam Zaza
- Indira Guzman
SIGMOD
Chair
- K. Selcuk Candan
- Divyakant Agrawal
Vice-Chair
- Fatma Ozcan
- Yufei Tao
Secretary/Treasurer
- Letizia Tanca
- Rachel Pottinger
SIGMOBILE
Chair
- Y. Charlie Hu
- Lili Qiu
Vice-Chair
- Sharad Agarwal
- Falko Dressler
Treasurer
- Yingying Chen
- Polly Huang
Secretary of Membership and Communications
- Mo Li
- Morley Mao
- Tadashi Okoshi
SIGMM
Chair
- Alberto Del Bimbo
- Nicu Sebe
Vice-Chair
- Prabhakaran Balakrishnan
- Phoebe Chen
Conference Director
- Cathal Gurrin
- Ichiro Ide
- Miriam Redi
SIGPLAN
Chair
- Jeffrey S. Foster
- Adam Chlipala
Vice-Chair
- Christoph Kirsch
- Anders Møller
Member-at-Large
- Cindy Rubio-Gonzales
- Andreas Podelski
- Antony Hosking
- Swarat Chaudhuri
- Adrian Sampson
- Sukyoung Ryu
- Isil Dillig
- Arjun Guha
- Amal Ahmed
- Alexandra Silva
- Atsushi Igarashi
SIGSAC
Chair
- Kevin Butler
- Gene Tsudik
- Xiaofeng Wang
Vice-Chair
- Michelle Mazurek
- Danfeng (Daphne) Yao
Secretary/Treasurer
- Christina Poepper
- Ben Stock
SIGSAM
Chair
- Veronika Pillwein
- Jonathan Hauenstein
Vice-Chair
- Clément Pernet
- Chenqi Mou
Treasurer
- Matthew England
- John May
Secretary
- Shaoshi Chen
- Angelos Mantzaflaris
SIGSOFT
Chair
- Natalia Juristo
- Thomas Zimmermann
- Andrea Zisman
Vice-Chair
- Luciano Baresi
- Marsha Chechik
- Gregg Rothermel
Member-at-Large
- Cristian Cadar
- Alessandro Garcia
- Dan Hao
- David Lo
- Patrizio Pelliccione
- Martin Robillard
- Lin Tan