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Regan Mandryk is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Victoria, Canada. Prior to moving to UVic, she was a professor at the University of Saskatchewan for 15 years where she was a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Digital Gaming Technologies and Experiences. Her long-term research objective is to design, develop, and evaluate novel technologies that improve the social, cognitive, and emotional wellbeing of people. She has been at the forefront of legitimizing games research in HCI, with more than 200 top-tier publications, including 29 best paper awards and nominations. Her lectures include "Innovations in Social Play."

The ACM Student Research Competition is an internationally recognized venue enabling undergraduate and graduate students to experience the research world, share research results and exchange ideas, rub shoulders with academic and industry luminaries, understand the practical applications of their research and gain recognition.

Meeyoung (Mia) Cha is a Scientific Director with the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy (MPI-SP), as well as a Professor at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). At MPI-SP, she leads the Data Science for Humanity Group. Cha was named an ACM Distinguished Member for her contributions to computational social science research on misinformation, fraud detection, and poverty mapping. In her interview, she discusses integrating classical computing methods into the social sciences, the Data Science for Humanity Group, challenges in combating fake news, and more.

Norman P. Jouppi is a Vice President and Engineering Fellow at Google. He joined Google to develop ML accelerators, and is the tech lead for Google’s Tensor Processing Units (TPUs). Jouppi has served the ACM in many capacities, including as the Chair of SIGARCH and as a member of the ACM Council. He is an ACM Fellow and received the ACM-IEEE CS Eckert Mauchly Award for pioneering contributions to the design and analysis of high-performance processors and memory systems. In his interview, he discusses the development of the RISC and MIPS microprocessors, how his new buffers improved the memory of computer systems, TPUs vs. GPUs, his work in telepresence, and more.

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You can use your technical skills for social good and offer volunteer support on software development projects to organizations who could not otherwise afford it. SocialCoder connects volunteer programmers/software developers with registered charities and helps match them to suitable projects based on their skills, experience, and the causes they care about. Learn more about ACM’s new partnership with SocialCoder, and how you can get involved.

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