{"599920":{"#nid":"599920","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Professors Richard Fujimoto and Wenke Lee Named ACM Fellows","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETwo Georgia Tech College of Computing senior faculty members have been named the newest \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.acm.org\/\u0022\u003EAssociation for Computing Machinery\u003C\/a\u003E (ACM) Fellows.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EACM announced this week that Regents\u0026rsquo; Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cse.gatech.edu\/content\/richard-fujimoto\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERichard Fujimoto\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E and Professor\u003Cstrong\u003E Wenke Lee \u003C\/strong\u003Ehave earned the distinction that annually recognizes the top 1 percent of ACM members for their achievements in computing and service to the ACM and computing community. ACM has almost 100,000 members who are selected by a committee every year.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Becoming an ACM Fellow is a distinct honor, personally for me, in recognition of some 30 years work in the parallel and distributed simulation field,\u0026rdquo; said Fujimoto, a faculty member in the the School of Computational Science and Engineering (CSE).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;More importantly, it provides evidence of recognition of modeling and simulation as an important interdisciplinary area within the computing discipline. I am hopeful that more folks in the modeling and simulation community will be named as ACM fellows in the years ahead.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFujimoto was the founding chair of CSE and served in this role from 2005 to 2014. During this period, he led the creation of several CSE education programs, including the CSE M.S. and Ph. D. programs, the Modeling and Simulation \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/academics\/degree-programs\/bachelors\/computer-science\/threads\u0022\u003EThread\u003C\/a\u003E of the College\u0026rsquo;s undergraduate program, and two undergraduate minor programs, among others. The online option of the CSE M.S. program was the College\u0026rsquo;s first online degree.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;That it recognizes modeling and simulation as a core area of research and education is certainly good news for CSE. I expect many more CSE faculty will be so-honored in the years ahead,\u0026rdquo; he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFujimoto\u0026rsquo;s research concerns the execution of discrete-event simulation programs on parallel and distributed computing platforms. This research includes work on platforms ranging from mobile distributed computing research systems to supercomputers.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAfter receiving his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1983, he has contributed research to the parallel and distributed simulation field since. His work spans several application areas including transportation systems, telecommunication networks, and multiprocessor and defense systems. He also led the working group that was responsible for defining the time management services of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/standards.ieee.org\/findstds\/standard\/1516-2010.html\u0022\u003EHigh Level Architecture (IEEE Standard 1516).\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Coincidentally, the award announcement comes literally days after many of the original researchers in the parallel and distributed simulation field convened at the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/meetings2.informs.org\/wordpress\/wsc2017\/\u0022\u003EWinter Simulation Conference\u003C\/a\u003E in Las Vegas to present a paper titled \u003Cem\u003EParallel Discrete Event Simulation: The Making of a Field\u003C\/em\u003E,\u0026rdquo; said Fujimoto.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe paper recounts key developments in the field and its impacts. It shows much of the history of the development of the field that would otherwise never have been captured.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Richard is one of the leading minds in the computational modeling and simulation community, and he is a true asset to Georgia Tech and the School of CSE community. This recognition as an ACM Fellow is well deserved and a testament to his contributions to the field over the past three decades,\u0026rdquo; said CSE Chair \u003Cstrong\u003EDavid Bader\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I am humbled and deeply appreciative because it is such an\u0026nbsp;honor to be named an ACM Fellow,\u0026rdquo; Lee said, a professor in the School of Computer Science (SCS) and co-director of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/iisp.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EInstitute for Information Security \u0026amp; Privacy.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Wenke Lee\u0026#39;s recognition by the ACM cements his and Georgia Tech\u0026#39;s reputation as one of the true leaders in cybersecurity research in the country,\u0026rdquo; SCS Chair \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/people\/10835\/lance-fortnows\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELance Fortnow\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELee is being recognized for his achievements in cybersecurity. He is a world-renowned expert on systems and network security, applied cryptography, and machine learning. Recently, he has focused on the security of mobile systems and apps, botnet detection and malware analysis, adversarial machine learning, and detection and mitigation of information manipulation on the internet.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESince joining the SCS faculty in 2001, Lee has published dozens of influential papers at top cybersecurity conferences such as \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.usenix.org\/conference\/usenixsecurity17\u0022\u003EUSENIX Security\u003C\/a\u003E Symposium, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ccs2017.sigsac.org\/\u0022\u003EACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security\u003C\/a\u003E, the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ndss-symposium.org\/ndss2017\/\u0022\u003ENetwork \u0026amp; Distributed System Security Symposium\u003C\/a\u003E, and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.computer.org\/security-and-privacy\/\u0022\u003EIEEE Symposium on Security \u0026amp; Privacy\u003C\/a\u003E. He also regularly works on projects with the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/\u0022\u003ENational Science Foundation\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.defense.gov\/\u0022\u003EDepartment of Defense\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.dhs.gov\/\u0022\u003EDepartment of Homeland Security\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.onr.navy.mil\/\u0022\u003EOffice of Naval Research\u003C\/a\u003E, and private industry.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAlthough Lee has had considerable impact in cybersecurity, the field was only just beginning when he earned his Ph.D. from Columbia University 20 years ago. \u0026ldquo;Everything was ripe for discovery, there were endless problems to anticipate and solve, and I knew I could take my career in a number of directions,\u0026rdquo; he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Since then, I\u0026rsquo;ve enjoyed the opportunity to improve user security and privacy for the very technologies \u0026ndash; popular programs, browsers, apps and iPhones \u0026ndash; that have become central to our daily lives.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It is personally important to me that every individual have the right to keep their data safe, guard proprietary knowledge, and retain the freedom to choose when and how they share it. I look forward to continuing this work and to guiding others to develop more cybersecurity solutions,\u0026rdquo; Lee said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAlong with Fujimoto and Lee, former Associate Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/gabriel-loh-78ab4459\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGabe Loh\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and SCS alumnus\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cse.psu.edu\/~axs53\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAnand Sivasubramaniam\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;were also named ACM Fellows this year.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The College of Computing has two new ACM fellows."}],"uid":"34541","created_gmt":"2017-12-14 16:24:32","changed_gmt":"2017-12-14 18:08:01","author":"Tess Malone","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2017-12-14T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2017-12-14T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"599923":{"id":"599923","type":"image","title":"ACM Fellowship","body":null,"created":"1513274857","gmt_created":"2017-12-14 18:07:37","changed":"1513274857","gmt_changed":"2017-12-14 18:07:37","alt":"","file":{"fid":"228715","name":"Screen Shot 2017-12-14 at 1.06.25 PM.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Screen%20Shot%202017-12-14%20at%201.06.25%20PM.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Screen%20Shot%202017-12-14%20at%201.06.25%20PM.png","mime":"image\/png","size":776116,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Screen%20Shot%202017-12-14%20at%201.06.25%20PM.png?itok=-MUTlSTJ"}}},"media_ids":["599923"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50877","name":"School of Computational Science and Engineering"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"145171","name":"Cybersecurity"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETess Malone, Communications Officer SCS\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Etess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EKristen Perez, Communications Officer CSE\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:kristen.perez@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ekristen.perez@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}