Tuomas Sandholm Named ACM Fellow
I’m writing today from the Google campus in Mountain View. However, the news today isn’t about Google — it’s about Tuomas Sandholm. The Association for Computing Machinery has just named him an ACM Fellow. Tuomas is cited for his “contributions to combinatorial auctions and mechanism design.” In addition to his research, Tuomas is the founder of a successful company, CombineNet, and is a very accomplished windsurfer (having been ranked 12th in the world finals in 1987). The ACM also named 43 others as 2008 Fellows along with Tuomas. These include two additional CMU researchers, SEI’s Watts Humphrey and ECE’s Rob Rutenbar.
I made a quick pass over the entire list of ACM Fellows and found 21 CMU CS faculty members (18 active) on the list. That’s quite a large number — a full department’s worth of ACM Fellows at many universities! But I can also see many obvious CMU faculty members missing from the list. Hopefully we’ll continue to see more of our faculty selected for this honor in the near future.
Congratulations, Tuomas!
Peter Lee @ January 15, 2009