2026 ACM India Council Election
A third party, Election Services Corporation (ESC), is conducting the election.
The 2026 ACM India Council Election is now open.
ACM Professional Members (in good standing as of 20 April 2026) are eligible to vote in this election. The voting site closes at 21:30 IST on 5 June 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
Executive Council Member (1 July 2026 — 30 June 2030):
- Chitra Babu, (Retired) SSN College, Chennai
- Aritra Banik, NISER Bhubaneswar
- Sridhar Chimalakonda, IIT Tirupati
- Neeraj Goel, IIT Ropar
- Vinit Kapoor, Persistent Systems LTD., Nagpur
- Atul Kumar, IBM Research, Bangalore
- Sachin Lodha, TCS Research, Pune
- Sudip Misra, IIT Kharagpur
- Mainack Mondal, IIT Kharagpur
- Niharika Sachdeva, Info Edge (Naukri.com)
- Sriparna Saha, IIT Patna
- Akhilesh Kumar Sharma, Manipal University, Jaipur
- Yogesh Simmhan, IISc Bangalore
- S. Sudarshan, IIT Bombay
- R. Venkateswaran, COEP Technological University, Pune
