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Jingren Zhou is the Chief Technology Officer at Alibaba Cloud, where he drives technology innovation and product development across a wide range of cloud computing services. He also leads the development of AI foundation models, such as Qwen and Wan models, and their applications in diverse business applications within Alibaba Cloud. His lectures include "Building Foundation Models at Scale: System Experiences and Challenges." He received his PhD in Computer Science from Columbia University. He is a Fellow of ACM and IEEE.

The ACM Student Research Competition is an internationally recognized venue enabling undergraduate and graduate students to experience the research world, share research results and exchange ideas, rub shoulders with academic and industry luminaries, understand the practical applications of their research and gain recognition.

Sylvia Ratnasamy is a Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where she co-leads the Networked Systems (NetSys) research group. Among her honors, she received the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award in 2014 for her work on distributed hash tables (DHTs) and was recently named an ACM Fellow for her contributions to networks and networked systems. In her interview, she discusses decentralized content addressable networks, the infrastructure improvements needed to increase data speed, the “digital unification of industrial architectures,” and more.

Vivek Seshadri is the Co-Founder and CTO of Karya. Karya’s mission is to create AI-enabled earning and learning opportunities for low-income communities across the globe. Seshadri led the early design and development of the Karya platform, a mobile-first digital work platform to distribute a variety of language data tasks. For his research and societal contributions, Seshadri received the 2025 ACM India Early Career Researcher Award. In his interview, he discusses developing his digital work platform, solving challenges at various levels of the data ecosystem, how his approach enables upward socio-economic mobility, and more.

ACM offers lifelong learning resources including online books and courses from Skillsoft, TechTalks on the hottest topics in computing and IT, and more.

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You can use your technical skills for social good and offer volunteer support on software development projects to organizations who could not otherwise afford it. SocialCoder connects volunteer programmers/software developers with registered charities and helps match them to suitable projects based on their skills, experience, and the causes they care about. Learn more about ACM’s new partnership with SocialCoder, and how you can get involved.

ACM has launched a local events initiative in several major US cities to help computer professionals like you build personal networks of smart technical people nearby. You can share work experiences and insight, discuss new research ideas and provide guidance in finding a job or launching a new venture.