Mira Mezini, Head of the Software Technology Group at the Department of Computer Science at TU Darmstadt and Principal Investigator at the LOEWE center emergenCITY, has been accepted into the circle of ACM Fellows together with 54 other scientists. According to a statement from the ACM on Wednesday, January 22, she was recognized for her contributions to programming languages and software analysis with applications in distributed systems, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and for contributions to learning-based code completion.

With this nomination, the oldest and world’s largest educational and scientific computing society recognizes the best of its more than 100,000 members for outstanding accomplishments in computing and information technology or for outstanding service to the ACM and the computing community. Only one percent of ACM members are named ACM Fellows. It is considered one of the highest honors in computer science.

“Computing technology has had a tremendous impact in shaping how we live and work today,” said ACM President Yannis Ioannidis. “The ACM Fellows program honors the creativity and hard work of ACM members whose specific accomplishments drive innovation and make broader advances possible. In announcing a new class of Fellows each year, we celebrate the impact some of our community’s pioneers make and highlight the many technical areas of computing in which they work.”

Pioneer in the field of machine learning

Mira Mezini was one of the first scientists to use machine learning for the automatic completion of program codes. The professor, who has been teaching and researching at TU Darmstadt since 2000, has received several awards for her scientific achievements, including the prestigious ERC Advanced Grant from the European Research Council (2012), the IBM Eclipse Innovation Awards (2005 and 2006), the Google Research Award (2017) and the German IT Security Award (2014).

2023 she received the LOEWE Spitzenprofessur of the state of Hesse. She is also a founding member and co-director of research at the Hessian Center for Artificial Intelligence hessian.AI and a member of the board of the National Research Center for Applied Cybersecurity ATHENE.

More information

ACM announcement honoring the 2024 ACM Fellows from January 22, 2025

Short message from TU Darmstadt on the recognition