Featured ACM Member: Tim Menzies
Tim Menzies is a Professor at North Carolina State University. His interests include artificial intelligence, intelligent agents, data sciences, analytics, as well as software engineering and programming languages. One of his goals is to develop computer systems that make the best decisions possible with the least amount of data. Menzies is the author of more than 300 publications. His volunteer work includes serving as former co-PC chair of the 2012 ACM Automated Engineering Conference, the editor-in-chief of the Automated Software Engineering journal, associate editor of various journals, and editorial board member of Communications of the ACM.
Among his honors, Menzies received the Mining Software Repositories Foundational Contribution Award, and the Carol Miller Graduate Lecturer Award. He was named an ACM Fellow for contributions to the foundation and application of AI to software engineering, and an IEEE Fellow for contributions to software engineering for artificial intelligence.
Featured ACM Member: Amey Dharwadker
Amey Dharwadker is a Machine Learning Engineering Manager at Meta, leading the Facebook Video Recommendations Quality Ranking team. He oversees the development of video ranking models that enhance content quality and personalization for over two billion users daily. Previously, Dharwadker advanced user engagement and revenue growth across Meta’s platforms through his work on Facebook’s News Feed and Ads Ranking systems. He holds an MS in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University, specializing in computer vision and machine learning.
Dharwadker co-organizes the VideoRecSys workshop at the ACM RecSys conference and serves as a regular program committee member for ACM conferences including WWW, KDD, CIKM and RecSys.
A Fellow of the British Computer Society, IEEE Senior Member and elected Sigma Xi Full Member, Dharwadker has been recognized with prestigious honors, including the BCS Search Professional of the Year and IET India Youth Engineering Icon of the Year awards.
Read Dharwadker’s interview here.
ACM TechTalk: Sarah Drasner
View the recent ACM Techtalk “The Death of Work: Leading Effective Engineering Teams” with Sarah Drasner, Senior Director of Engineering at Google. Eve Andersson, Senior Director at Google and member of the ACM Professional Development Committee, moderated the questions and answers session following the talk.
The current climate in the industry has engineering leaders across the globe leading through massive change: team efficiency, location, budget constraints, and more. How are teams excelling in these environments and what can we do to support them? Drasner talks about anti-patterns, and positive support industry can offer to help people do their best work, backed by data.
ACM ByteCast: Travis S. Humble
In this episode of ACM ByteCast, Rashmi Mohan hosts Travis S. Humble, Director of the Quantum Science Center (QSC), a Distinguished Scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Director of the lab’s Quantum Computing Institute. He leads the development of new quantum technologies and infrastructure to impact the DOE mission of scientific discovery through quantum computing. As director of the QSC, Humble leads the innovation of scalable, resilient quantum information technologies through new materials, devices, and algorithms and facilitates the transfer of quantum technologies to the broadest audience. He is Editor-in-Chief for ACM Transactions on Quantum Computing, Associate Editor for Quantum Information Processing, and Co-Chair of the IEEE Quantum Initiative.
Here, Humble describes his journey into quantum computing, explains the difference between classical and quantum computing and why quantum computing is particularly well suited for scientific applications such as drug discovery and energy solutions, talks about Oak Ridge’s quantum computing resources and how researchers can access them, and more.
ACM ByteCast: Darja Smite
In this episode of ACM ByteCast, Harald Störrle hosts Darja Smite, Professor of Software Engineering at Blekinge Institute of Technology and a part-time research scientist at SINTEF ICT. Darja is an expert on the future of work and the impact of globalization and offshoring in software companies. She has conducted research with and international companies such as ABB, Boss Media, CALVI, DXC, Emerson Process Management, Ericsson, SONY, Spotify, and, Telenor and has insights from cooperating with offshore vendors in India, China, Poland, Latvia, Ukraine and Russia.
Smite shares her background, growing up in Latvia and later moving to Sweden for work and Norway to conduct research at SINTEF. She shares some of her research findings on outsourcin and discusses reasons why people stay or leave their jobs as well as cultural differences and the challenge of people from different cultures finding common ground. She also touches on the impact of COVID on work practices in the past five years and offers advice for people considering a career in IT.
