Computer Scientists Earn Technical Excellence Awards for Outstanding Work
May 27, 2025
ACM today announced the recipients of three prestigious technical awards. This year’s four awardees were selected by their peers for innovations to global wireless standards, machine learning, and 3D generative AI.
Erdal Arikan, Professor, Bilkent University, receives the ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award for the discovery of channel polarization and the construction of polar codes—the first explicit, capacity-achieving codes with efficient encoding and decoding adopted in global wireless standards.
Kevin Leyton-Brown, Professor, University of British Columbia, receives the ACM - AAAI Allen Newell Award for fundamental contributions to artificial intelligence and machine learning, focusing on applications to multiagent systems, heuristic algorithms, social impact, and market design.
Ben Mildenhall, co-founder, World Labs, and Pratul Srinivasan, Research Scientist, Google DeepMind, are the recipients of the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award for contributions to radiance field representations, 3D scene capture and rendering, and pioneering neural implicit representations and 3D generative AI.
