ACM India Council
The ACM India Council was created by ACM to recognize and support Indian ACM members and activities.
About the ACM India Council
The ACM India Council is an effort of ACM, the world's largest educational and scientific computing society, aimed at increasing the level and visibility of ACM activities across India. The ACM India Council activities, involving both academia and industry in computing, include research, organization of high-quality computing conferences, advancing Computer Science education, and awards to recognize achievement.
2020 ACM India Council Election
On 4 May, all ACM Professional Members residing in India (in good standing as of 15 April 2020) were sent voting information via an email message from Election Services Corporation (ESC), a third party that is conducting the election. If you have not received an email and have an email address on file with ACM, please contact acmindiahelp@electionservicescorp.com.
Ballots are due by 8 June at 21:30 IST.
Abhiram Ranade
ACM India Council President Abhiram Ranade received a B.Tech degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT Bombay in 1981 and a doctorate in Computer Science from Yale University in 1989. He was an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley during 1988-95. Since 1995 he has served on the faculty of IIT Bombay, currently as a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering. His research interests are in Algorithms and Combinatorial Optimization.
Heena Timani
ACM-W India Executive Council Chair Heena Timani was Chair and Founder/Vice-Chair of the ACM Ahmedabad Professional Chapter. She was also a faculty sponsor of the ACM-W chapter at Ahmedabad University. She was a member of the ACM-W India Executive Council from 2017 to 2019. She is an independent consultant, business analyst and academic advisor. Her specialization is Bayesian inference and Applications of Bayesian networks in business intelligence and analytics. She is actively involved in supporting and organizing computing events for women in India under ACM-W.
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ACM India Council
- President
- Abhiram Gorakhanath Ranade
- Vice President
- Venkatesh Raman
- Secretary/Treasurer
- Maria Josefa Choudhary
- Member
- Hemangee K. Kapoor
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Jayant
R.
Haritsa
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Supratik
Chakraborty
- Meenakshi DSouza
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Manish
Gupta
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Pankaj
Jalote
- Venkatesh Kamat
- Sudeshna Sarkar
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Vasudeva
Varma
- ACM-W India Chair
- Heena Timani
- Past President
- Madhavan Mukund
- ACM India Executive Director
- Hemant Pande
- ACM India COO
- Chandrashekhar Sahasrabudhe
Past ACM India Council Members
List of Past ACM India Council Members
ACM India Summer Schools 2020, 1 June to 17 July
ACM India Summer Schools 2020 Program Cancelled
April 24, 2020: Owing to the extraordinary COVID-19 related circumstances, and in the interest of everyone's safety, the ACM India Summer Schools 2020 program is cancelled. We thank all those who were involved in the planning process as well as the students who applied to the schools. As informed earlier, we will be refunding the application fees to all the students who applied before the fees were waived.
Annual Events
ACM India events and conferences include: Annual Event, IRISS, COMPUTE, CODS-COMAD, and ISEC.
ACM India also co-sponsors conferences held in India, such as FIRE 2019, VLSI 2019, and COMSNETS 2019.
Contact Us
ACM India has an active presence on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook. We encourage our members to participate and contribute on these social media channels to increase awareness of ACM India activities.
email: acmindiahelp@hq.acm.org
Students and Professionals: join ACM India via these links.