2026 ACM General Election

 

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The 2026 ACM General Election is now open.

ACM Professional Members (in good standing as of 1 April 2026) are eligible to vote in this election. The voting site closes at 16:00 UTC on 22 May 2026.

The slate of candidates is listed below. Candidates are listed in alphabetical order. A PDF offering all candidate bios and statements in one document may be downloaded for printing, or you can click on the candidate’s name for their respective bio and statement.

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Candidate Slate 2026

President (1 July 2026 — 30 June 2028):

•  Elisa Bertino, Purdue University
• Jens Palsberg , University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

Vice President (1 July 2026 — 30 June 2028):

• Anand Deshpande, Persistent Systems
• Rashmi Mohan, Cisco (Splunk) Inc.

Secretary/Treasurer (1 July 2026 — 30 June 2028):

• Tom Crick, University of Bristol
• Jayant R Haritsa, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru

Members at Large (1 July 2026 — 30 June 2030):

• Carlos Jaime Barrios Hernández, Universidad Industrial de Santander (UIS); LIG/INRIA, Grenoble, and CITI Lab, Lyon
• Yunyao Li, Adobe
• Lydia Tapia, University of New Mexico
• Holly Yanco, University of Massachusetts Amherst