Xiaodong Zhang Named ACM Fellow

Xiaodong Zhang, the Robert M. Critchfield Professor in Engineering, and chair of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, is among 52 leading computer scientists worldwide named Fellows by the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM). Zhang received the honor for his contributions to data and memory management in distributed systems.

ACM, the world's largest scientific and educational computing society, bestows their Fellow awards to a small and elite group of ACM members for their outstanding accomplishments in computing and information technology and in the large computing community.

“I am pleased to learn about the ACM Fellow election,” Zhang said. “I think it is a strong recognition to my former and current students and collaborators, and to my long-term efforts to emphasize impact-driven research.”

In addition to his busy administrative and professional service duties, Zhang maintains a high profile research program and strives to transfer his research into advanced technology to impact general-purpose computing systems in both hardware and software. Several technical innovations and research results from his research group have been widely adopted in commercial processors, major operating systems and databases, and distributed systems.

Zhang joined Ohio State as chair of computer science and engineering in 2006 from the College of William and Mary, where he was Lattie P. Evans Professor and chair of the computer science department. He was named as IEEE Fellow for his contributions in computer memory systems in 2008. Zhang received a PhD in computer science from University of Colorado at Boulder, where he received a Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award in 2011.

ACM will formally recognize Zhang and all of the 2012 Fellows at its Annual Awards Banquet on June 15, 2013 in San Francisco.

Read more about the honor on the Department of Computer Science and Engineering’s website.