Eric Mankin
December 03, 2007 — Aristides Requicha and Viktor Prasanna were part of an elite company of 38 leaders in computing technology recognized this year by being named Fellows of the
Association for Computing Machinery,
The Viterbi School was one of only five universities worldwide with more than one 2007 Fellow elected to the international
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organization, a "educational and scientific society uniting the world’s computing educators, researchers and professionals to inspire dialogue, share resources and address the field’s challenges."
Prasanna holds appointments in both the Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering and the Department of Computer Science, and holds the Charles Lee Powell Chair at the Viterbi School. He is an associate member of the Center for Applied Mathematical Sciences (CAMS) and a member of USC-Chevron Center of Excellence for Research and Academic Training on Interactive Smart Oilfield Technologies (CiSoft) at USC. His research interests include High Performance Computing, Parallel and Distributed Systems, Reconfigurable Computing, Network Computing and Embedded Systems.
The ACM recognized him "for contributions to parallel, distributed and reconfigurable computing."
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Requicha also has appointments in the Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering and the Department of Computer Science, and holds the Gordon Marshall Chair at the Viterbi School, and is director of the
Laboratory for Molecular Robotics (LMR) He is the editor-in-chief of the IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, has been an editor for the ACM Transactions on Graphics, the IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, and other journals, and has served on numerous conference program committees. He is currently a Co-Chair of the Robotics and Automation Society Technical Committee on Micro and Nano Robotics.
He joined USC in 1986, after thirteen years at the University of Rochester, where most recently he was the Director of the Production Automation Project. His ACM citation recognizes his contributions to solid modeling and nanorobotics.
The ACM Fellows Program, initiated in 1993, "celebrates the exceptional contributions of the leading members in the computing field," according to a statement by the organization.
"These individuals have helped to enlighten researchers, developers, practitioners and end-users of information technology throughout the world. The new ACM Fellows join a distinguished list of colleagues to whom ACM and its members look for guidance and leadership in computing and information technology."
