Goodbye, FCA!
The ACM Future of Computing Academy (FCA), created in 2017, no more exists, and Moshe Vardi’s recent Communications of the ACM article says a little about why. ACM pages that used to say what the FCA was, why it was created, who its inaugural members were, are no longer live, but we include an excerpt from the Internet Archive below. We also list the names of all 81 FCA members who made up “FCA 1.0” and “FCA 2.0” from 2017 to 2021. There was alas no FCA 3.0, but in its stead we trust that ACM’s new leadership will seek to engage younger and early career professionals with renewed fervor.
Empowering the Next Generation of Computing
The ACM Future of Computing Academy (ACM FCA) was instituted in 2017 to engage and empower the next generation of computing professionals. This Academy is a platform that enables young researchers, practitioners, educators, and entrepreneurs of computing to develop a strong and influential voice towards addressing challenging issues facing ACM, the discipline, and the world at large. The ACM FCA aspires to harness collective action to define and launch new ACM initiatives that will carry the world of computing into the future.
The ACM FCA presents its members with a unique opportunity to expand their networks beyond their immediate professional environments and work alongside other incredibly accomplished individuals from diverse domains of computing towards the shared goal of shaping the future. Membership also enables individuals to draw on the ACM for support and mentorship to shape and advance their goals.
FCA 1.0
The inaugural FCA Executive Committee (2017–2019) was led by Brent Hecht as Chair, and consisted of four additional members: Brent Hecht, Mirja Kuehlewind, Svitlana Volkova, Jeronimo Castrillon, and Jason Ernst. The full list of members follows.
Yousra Aafer, University of Waterloo, Canada
Shipra Agrawal, Columbia University, USA
Ganesh Ananthanarayanan, Microsoft Research, USA
*Bushra Anjum, Doximity, USA
Tim Baarslag, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), Germany
Christine Bassem, Wellesley College, USA
Jeffrey Bigham, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
*Yonatan Bisk, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Björn Bernhard Brandenburg, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS), Germany
Jeronimo Castrillon, TU Dresden, Germany
Lydia Chilton, Columbia University, USA
*Sarah Clinch, University of Manchester, UK
*Danish Contractor, IBM Research AI, India
*Luigi De Russis, Politecnico di Torino, Italy @luigidr
Jason Ernst, Stealth Startup, USA
Ruogu Fang, University of Florida, USA
Yun Raymond Fu, Northeastern University, USA
Julia Haines, Google, USA
Brent Hecht, Northwestern University and Microsoft Research, USA
Ehsan Hoque, University of Rochester, USA
Ece Kamar, Microsoft Research, USA
Fahim Khan, Toyo University, Japan
Wouter Koolen, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Germany
Mirja Kuehlewind, Ericsson Research, Germany
*Neha Kumar, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA @nehakumar
Wu Liu, JD AI Research, China
Daniel McDuff, Google, USA
*Andrew Miller, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, USA
*Naja Holten Møller, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
*Marianna Obrist, University of Central London (UCL), UK
Sun Young Park, University of Michigan, USA
Linh Thi Xuan Phan, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Indrajit Roy, Google, USA
Johannes Schöning, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
*Catherine Schuman, University of Tennessee, USA @cdschuman
Anand Seetharam, UL, USA
Oren Sar Shalom, Meta, Israel
Justin Solomon, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA
Rajan Vaish, Snap Research, USA
Svitlana Volkova, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
Tim Weninger, University of Notre Dame, USA
Lauren Wilcox, Google, USA
*Julie Williamson, University of Glasgow, UK
*Pamela Wisniewski, University of Central Florida, USA
Cathy Wu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA
Lana Yarosh, University of Minnesota, USA
The 12 inaugural members with *s next to their names above continued for one more year, alongside and mentoring the 36 new recruits listed below. This was FCA 2.0 (2019–2021), led by myself (Neha Kumar) as Chair and Luigi De Russis as Vice-Chair. We were especially delighted to have as incredibly diverse a group of members as below, from all continents, many countries, different disciplines, research and practice. Many thanks to the ACM leadership for bringing us together, even if our time was short-lived and impacted by a pandemic for the most part.
FCA 2.0
Sofia Bourhim, Rabat Prefecture, Morocco
Emily Elizabeth Brown, Disney, USA
Bharathi Raja Asoka Chakravarthi, Insight Centre for Data Analytics, National University of Ireland, Ireland @BharathirajaAkr
Juan Miguel de Joya, International Telecommunication Union, Switzerland, @nojuanhere
Juliana Baptista dos Santos França, Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ), Brazil @julibsf
Pamela Gonzales Apaza, Unicodemy, Bolivia @10PAMELA20
Noopur Gupta, IBM, India @noopur2507
Jessica Hair, SmartFile, USA
Adri Jovin John Joseph, Sri Ramakrishna Institute of Technology, India @adrijovin
Salomon Kabongo Kabenamualu, Leibniz Universität Hannover (LUH), Germany @SalomonKabongo1
Felix Kerger, Wildlife Studios, Spain
Quist-Aphetsi Kester, CRITAC and Ghana Technology University College, Ghana @QUIST77
Harsh Khajgiwale, Druva Data Solutions Pvt Ltd, India @hkhajgiwale
Cheng Li, University of Science and Technology of China, China
Joseph Lindley, Lancaster University, UK @joegalen
Akhil Mathur, Nokia Bell Labs, UK @akhilmathurs
Claudia Mazo, University College Dublin, Ireland
Yusuf Mshelia, Federal University of Technology, Nigeria @YUMshelia
Abiodun Mustapha, McPherson University, Nigeria @abiodun_mustaph
Tempestt Neal, University of South Florida, USA @TempesttNeal
Darshit Patel, Gupshup, India @darshitpp
Ella Peltonen, University of Oulu, Finland @Ella_Peltonen
Ridhi, Meta, UK
Daniel Russo, Aalborg University, Denmark @danielrusso88
Dilini Samarasinghe, University of New South Wales, Australia @DilSamarasinghe
Jaelle Scheuerman, U.S. Naval Research Lab, USA @jaelle
Xiaokui Shu, IBM Research, USA
Gürkan Solmaz, NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany
Jesmin Jahan Tithi, Intel Labs, USA
Aishwarya Tripathi, Syfe, India
Kashyap Tumkur, Verily Life Sciences, USA @nonlogic
Grace Ibukun Oluwa Ufeoshi, Data Science Nigeria, Nigeria @Gracefulibk
Harshil Vora, Dell Technologies, India
William Wang, University of California Santa Barbara, USA @WilliamWangNLP
Amy X. Zhang, University of Washington, USA @amyxzh
N.B.: We did our best to provide up-to-date information above, along with Twitter handles that we knew about. Let us know of updates we’re missing.
Neha & Luigi.
