CRA Committees
CRA relies on the volunteers that serve on its committees, as well as its professional staff, to carry out its programs.
Awards
CRA Contact: Andrew Bernat, abernat [at] cra.org
The following committees oversee CRA’s award programs:
Recognizes service in the areas of government affairs, professional societies, publications or conferences, and leadership that has a major impact on computing research.
Brent Hailpern (IBM) Chair
Eric de Sturler (Virginia Tech)
Laura Haas (University of Massachusetts – Amherst)
Recognizes outstanding contributions aimed at increasing the numbers and/or successes of underrepresented groups in the computing research community.
Kate Larson (University of Waterloo) Chair
Andrea Danyluk (Williams College)
David Ebert (Purdue University)
Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award
These student awards, sponsored by Microsoft and Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs in alternate years, recognize undergraduate students in North American colleges and universities who show outstanding research potential in an area of computing research.
This award is managed by the CRA Education Committee.
2020-21 Selection Committee:
Michael Hilton (CMU) co-chair
Ran Libeskind-Hadas (Harvey Mudd College) co-Chair
Jonathan Bell (Northeastern University)
Elena Grigorescu (Purdue University
Mark Newman (University of Michigan)
Evan Peck (Bucknell University)
Raghu Ramanujan (Davidson College)
Kelly Shaw (Williams College)
Neil Spring (University of Maryland)
Yuqing Melanie Wu (Pomona College)
CRA-E Undergraduate Research Faculty Mentoring Award
This award recognizes individual faculty members who have provided exceptional mentorship, undergraduate research experiences, and, in parallel, guidance on admission and matriculation of these students to research-focused graduate programs in computing.
This award is managed by the CRA Education Committee.
2020-21 Selection Committee:
Denys Poshyvanyk (William & Mary) Chair
Monica Anderson (University of Alabama)
Margaret Burnett (Oregon State)
Maria Gini (University of Minnesota)
This award recognizes outstanding service to CRA as an organization.
Selected by the CRA Board Chair.
Center for Evaluating the Research Pipeline (CERP)
CERP’s mission is to increase diversity in the field of computing research through evaluation and research.
Website: https://turing.cra.org/cerp
CRA Contact: burcin [at] cra.org
Sampath Kannan (University of Pennsylvania, CCC Council)
Ran Libeskind-Hadas (Harvey Mudd College, CRA-E Committee, CRA Board)
Kathryn McKinley (Google, CRA-WP Board, CRA Board)
Rebecca Wright (Barnard College, CRA-WP Board)
Committee on Widening Participation in Computing Research (CRA-WP)
CRA-WP works to increase the number and success of underrepresented groups in computing research and higher education by assessing needs and developing and implementing programs to encourage and support women in the computing research community.
Website: https://turing.cra.org/cra-wp
CRA Contact: Erik Russell, erik [at] cra.org; Andrew Bernat, abernat [at] cra.org
Andrea Danyluk (Williams College) Co-Chair
Sandhya Dwarkadas (University of Rochester) Co-Chair
Deb Agarwal (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Nancy Amato (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
A. J. Bernheim Brush (Microsoft Research)
Ramon Caceres (Google)
Tracy Camp (Colorado School of Mines)
Sheila Castañeda (Clarke University)
Lori Clarke (University of Massachusetts-Amherst)
Dilma Da Silva (Texas A&M University)
Carla Ellis (Duke University)
Maria Gini (University of Minnesota)
Soha Hassoun (Tufts University)
Julia Hirschberg (Columbia University)
Ayanna Howard (Georgia Tech)
Chad Jenkins (University of Michigan)
Raja Kushalnagar (Gallaudet University)
Ming Lin (University of North Carolina)
Patty Lopez (Intel)
Jaime Moreno (IBM Research)
Meredith Ringel Morris (Microsoft Research)
Lori Pollock (University of Delaware)
Susan Rodger (Duke University)
Holly Rushmeier (Yale University)
Amanda Stent (Bloomberg)
Hakim Weatherspoon (Cornell University)
Rita Wouhaybi (Intel)
Rebecca Wright (Barnard College)
Yuqing Melanie Wu (Pomona College)
Computing Community Consortium
Website: https://turing.cra.org/ccc
CRA Contact: Ann Drobnis, adrobnis@cra.org, CCC Director
Elizabeth Bradley (University of Colorado, Boulder) Chair
Daniel P. Lopresti (Lehigh University) Vice Chair
Mark Hill (University of Wisconsin, Madison) Past Chair
Andrew Bernat (CRA Executive Director) Ex-Officio
Sujata Banerjee (VMware)
Elisa Bertino (Purdue University)
Nayda Bliss (Arizona State University)
Tom Conte (Georgia Tech)
Kathleen Fisher (Tufts University)
Ian Foster (Argonne National Laboratory)
Maria Gini (University of Minnesota)
William D. Gropp (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Chad Jenkins (University of Michigan)
Brian LaMacchia (Microsoft Research)
Melanie Mitchell (Portland State University)
Melanie Moses (University of New Mexico)
Helen Nissenbaum (Cornell Tech)
David C. Parkes (Harvard University)
Shwetak Patel (University of Washington)
Ronitt Rubinfeld (MIT)
Katie Siek (Indiana University)
Suresh Venkatasubramanian (University of Utah)
Holly Yanco (UMass Lowell)
2020 Conference at Snowbird Organizing Committee
Website: https://turing.cra.org/snowbird
CRA Contact: Andrew Bernat, abernat [at] cra.org
Penny Rheingans (University of Maine) Co-Chair
Jaime Teevan (Microsoft Research) Co-Chair
James Allan (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Christine Alvarado (University of California, San Diego)
Lorrie Cranor (Carnegie Mellon University)
Kate Larson (University of Waterloo)
Ran Libeskind-Hadas (Harvey Mudd College)
Patrick Pantel (Facebook)
Divesh Srivastava (AT&T Labs Research)
New Department Chairs Workshop
Susanne Hambrusch (Purdue University) Co-Chair
Rachel Pottinger (University of British Columbia) Co-Chair
CRA Virtual Conference 2020 Organizers
Ran Libeskind-Hadas (Harvey Mudd College) Chair
James Allan (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) Co-chair
CRA Deans Group
Website: https://turing.cra.org/committees/cra-deans/
The CRA-Deans Group meets annually to discuss a range of topics and share their experiences creating independent schools and IT units.
CRA Deans Leadership:
Hesham Ali (University of Nebraska Omaha) Chair
Yi Deng (Drexel University) Vice Chair
CRA Board Rep:
Greg Morrisett (Cornell University)
CRA-Education Committee (CRA-E)
CRA-E’s mission is to support society’s need for a continuous supply of talented and well-prepared computing researchers by providing resources helping undergraduates to pursue research, to pursue graduate school, or to pursue a research related career.
Website: https://turing.cra.org/crae
CRA Contact: Andrew Bernat, abernat [at] cra.org
Susanne Hambrusch (Purdue) Co-Chair
Lori Pollock (University of Delaware) Co-Chair
Christine Alvarado (University of California, San Diego)
Nancy Amato (University of Illinois)
Monica Anderson (University of Alabama)
Andrew Bernat (Executive Director, CRA, ex officio)
Geoffrey Herman (University of Illinois)
Michael Hilton (Carnegie Mellon University)
Amy Ko (University of Washington)
Ran Libeskind-Hadas (Harvey Mudd College)
Denys Poshyvanyk (William and Mary)
Kelly Shaw (Williams College)
Elections
The Elections Committee oversees CRA board and officer elections and provides recommendations to the board on elections policy.
CRA Contact: Andrew Bernat, abernat [at] cra.org
Michael Franklin (University of Chicago)
Kathryn McKinley (Google)
Greg Morrisett (Cornell University)
Executive
The Executive Committee provides advice to the CRA Board Chair and the CRA Executive Director, and it functions as the executive body representing the Board between Board meetings.
Website: https://turing.cra.org/about/board/executive/
CRA Contact: Andrew Bernat, abernat [at] cra.org
Ellen Zegura (Georgia Tech) Chair
Nancy Amato (University of Illinois) Vice Chair
Ran Libeskind-Hadas (Harvey Mudd College) Secretary
James Allan (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) Treasurer
Jaime Teevan (Microsoft Research) Appointed Member
Finance
CRA Contact: Andrew Bernat, abernat [at] cra.org
James Allan (University of Massachusetts) Chair
Phil Bernstein (Microsoft Research)
Government Affairs
The Government Affairs Committee establishes priorities and positions, and helps to execute CRA’s efforts, in government affairs and public policy.
Website: https://turing.cra.org/govaffairs
CRA Contact: Peter Harsha, harsha [at] cra.org
- Stephanie Forrest (Arizona State University) Chair
- Greg Hager (Johns Hopkins University) Co-Chair
- Ed Lazowska (University of Washington) Co-Chair
- Sarita Adve (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
- David Bader (Georgia Tech)
- David Ebert (Purdue University)
- Joel Emer (NVIDIA and MIT)
- Dan Grossman (University of Washington)
- Jeff Hollingsworth (University of Maryland)
- Farnam Jahanian (Carnegie Mellon University)
- John King (University of Michigan)
- Andrew Moore (Carnegie Mellon University)
- Dan Reed (University of Utah)
- Bobby Schnabel (University of Colorado, Boulder)
- Fred Schneider (Cornell University)
- Marc Snir (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
- Eugene H. Spafford (Purdue University)
- David Tennenhouse (VMware)
Membership
Website: https://turing.cra.org/about/membership/
CRA Contact: Sabrina Jacob, sjacob [at] cra.org, Andrew Bernat, abernat [at] cra.org
James Allan (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Nancy Amato (University of Illinois)
Ran Libeskind-Hadas (Harvey Mudd College)
Ellen Zegura (Georgia Tech)
Surveys
Website: https://turing.cra.org/resources/taulbee-survey/
CRA Contact: Betsy Bizot, bizot [at] cra.org
Stu Zweben (Ohio State University) Chair
Susanne Hambrusch (Purdue)
Shashi Shekhar (University of Minnesota)
Penny Rheingans (University of Maine)
