Pande and Doppa named as ACM Distinguished Members

Partha Pande and Jana Doppa have been named as distinguished members of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). They are two of the 61 new distinguished members announced for 2025 by the association, which is world's largest educational and scientific computing society.

Pande, dean of the Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture and Boeing Centennial Chair in Computer Engineering, was recognized for his contributions to heterogeneous manycore architecture-enabled AI accelerator design and optimization. Doppa, Huie-Rogers Endowed Chair Professor of Computer Science and George and Joan Berry Distinguished Professor in Engineering, was recognized for his contributions to structured machine learning and adaptive experimental design to accelerate science and engineering.

With WSU since 2005, Pande is recognized internationally for his pioneering research in network-on-chip (NoC) technology, which enhances the energy efficiency of data centers and high-performance computing systems. He has authored or co-authored over 250 papers published in journals and conference proceedings, and his work has received almost 10,000 citations. He is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and a recipient of a National Science Foundation Career Award and the Voiland College's Outstanding Researcher Award. He was also a distinguished speaker for the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society during 2021-23 and is a member of the Washington State Academy of Sciences. He served as director of the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science before being named as the college's dean in 2024.

Pande holds a doctoral degree from the University of British Columbia, a master's degree from the National University of Singapore, and a bachelor's degree from the University of Calcutta, India.

Doppa, who has been with WSU since 2014, conducts research in artificial intelligence, where he is developing core AI techniques and applying them to emerging application domains including in hardware design, nanoporous materials design, drug discovery, 3D printing, cybersecurity, and agriculture.

He and his collaborators have received five Best Paper Awards from top-tier venues including the AAAI conference, ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems, ACM/IEEE Embedded Systems Week Conference, ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Low Power Electronic Design. and ACM/IEEE Embedded Systems Week Conference. He is a recipient of an NSF CAREER Award and a Google Faculty Research Award. He is also a Senior Member of the Association for Advancement of AI (AAAI). At WSU, he has received the WSU Faculty Mid-Career Award, the Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture's Outstanding Junior Faculty in Research Award, the Reid-Miller Teaching Excellence Award, and the Anjan Bose Outstanding Faculty Research Award.

He holds a PhD from Oregon State University and a M.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur, India in computer science. The 2025 ACM distinguished members work at leading universities, corporations, and research institutions in Australia, Belgium, Canada, Chile, China, Germany, India, Korea, Mexico, New Zealand, Portugal, Singapore, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States, according to the group. The Distinguished Members were selected by their peers for significant technical achievements in a wide range of computing research areas including AI for healthcare, computing education, data management, human-computer interaction, mobile computing, networked systems, security, software, sustainability, and numerous other areas.