ACM Elects Elisa Bertino as President
May 28, 2026
ACM has elected Elisa Bertino as President for a two-year term beginning July 1. Bertino is the Samuel Conte Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at Purdue University. She currently serves as ACM Vice President and previously served as ACM Secretary/Treasurer and as Chair of the ACM Special Interest Group on Security, Audit and Control (SIGSAC). She is a co-founder of the ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY) and has been named to GSMA’s Mobile Security Research Hall of Fame. She has received the ACM Athena Lecturer Award, the ACM SIGSAC Outstanding Contribution Award, the IEEE Innovation in Societal Infrastructure Award, and the IEEE Computer Society Tsutomu Kanai Award. Bertino is a Fellow of ACM, IEEE, and AAAS.
Also elected to two-year terms are Vice President Rashmi Mohan, Sr. Director of Engineering at Cisco (Splunk) Inc.; and Secretary/Treasurer Tom Crick, Professor of Digital Society and Policy at the University of Bristol and Chief Scientific Adviser at the UK Government’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport.
President, Vice President, and Secretary/Treasurer serve two-year terms from July 1, 2026 to June 30, 2028.
In addition, Members-at-Large elected to four-year terms are Lydia Tapia of the University of New Mexico and Holly Yanco of the University of Massachusetts. They will serve four-year terms from July 1, 2026 to June 30, 2030.
