• Jian Ma, CMU computational biology professor, named 2025 ACM Fellow for groundbreaking genome and cell ML algorithms. • Ma’s work develops biologically grounded AI to decode cellular organization, communication, and disease mechanisms. • He leads CMU’s AI4BIO Center, integrating cloud labs and generative AI for biology. • Sylvia Ratnasamy, UC Berkeley CS professor, honored for seminal Distributed Hash Table research. • Both fellows join 71 new ACM Fellows, representing top 1% of computing professionals worldwide. • ACM banquet in San Francisco on June 13 will induct the 2025 Fellows.

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  • Jian Ma, the Ray and Stephanie Lane Professor of Computational Biology at Carnegie Mellon University, has been named a 2025 fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). The honor recognizes Ma’s work on computational biology algorithms and machine‑learning methods that advance understanding of genomes, single‑cell epigenomics, and spatial tissue dynamics. Ma joins fellow CMU faculty member Lujo Bauer in the 71‑person cohort selected by ACM peers each year. The ACM will induct its new fellows at a banquet in San Francisco in June. Ma’s research, which includes biologically grounded AI and generative models, is part of CMU’s Center for AI‑Driven Biomedical Research.
  • The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) announced that UC Berkeley professor Sylvia Ratnasamy will join the 2025 class of ACM Fellows. Ratnasamy is being honored for her pioneering contributions to networks and networked systems, most notably her work on Distributed Hash Tables (DHTs). Her 1999 paper, “A Scalable, Content‑Addressable Network,” introduced a decentralized data‑location method that has influenced peer‑to‑peer and cloud architectures. The 2025 Fellows cohort includes 71 individuals from 14 countries, spanning fields from AI in healthcare to sustainable computing. ACM will formally recognize the honorees at a banquet on June 13 in San Francisco.

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