Nick Higham named 2020 ACM Fellow

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Professor Nick Higham of the Department of Mathematics has been named among the 2020 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Fellows, who are recognised for work underpinning contemporary computing.

The accomplishments of the 2020 ACM Fellows have driven innovations that have ushered in significant improvements across many areas of technology, industry, and personal life.

Professor Higham, who was also recently awarded the IMA Gold Medal 2020 by the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, has been recognised for his contributions to numerical linear algebra, numerical stability analysis, and communication of mathematics.

He is among 95 ACM Fellows, representing universities, corporations and research centres around the world, who are celebrated for their wide-ranging and fundamental contributions in areas including artificial intelligence, cloud computing, computer graphics, virtual reality, and more.

The ACM Fellows programme recognises the top 1% of ACM members for their outstanding accomplishments in computing and information technology and/or outstanding service to ACM and the larger computing community. Fellows are nominated by their peers, with nominations reviewed by a distinguished selection committee.

ACM President Gabriele Kotsis said: "The 2020 ACM Fellows have demonstrated excellence across many disciplines of computing. These men and women have made pivotal contributions to technologies that are transforming whole industries, as well as our personal lives. We fully expect that these new ACM Fellows will continue in the vanguard in their respective fields."