Kung elected to ACM

H.T. Kung, the William H. Gates Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering and Vinton Hayes Senior Research Fellow in Electrical Engineering at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) has been named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the world's largest and most prestigious society of computing professionals.

Kung was chosen for his “contributions to computer architecture and concurrency control for parallel computation.” He was among 68 Fellows from across the globe honored for their “transformative contributions to computing science and technology.” 

Kung conducts research on topics related to the application of artificial intelligence in manufacturing, design and healthcare, AI accelerators, high-performance computing, parallel and distributed computing, computer architectures, and computer networks.

Among his many honors, Kung is an elected member of the US National Academy of Engineering, a Guggenheim Fellow and an elected member of the Academia Sinica in Taiwan. He has received the 1990 IEEE Computer Society Charles Babbage Award, the 1991 Pittsburgh Intellectual Property Law Association Inventor of the Year Award, the 2015 ACM Special Interest Group in Operating Systems (SIGOPS) Hall of Fame Award, and the 2023 IEEE Computer Society Technical Community on Distributed Processing (TCDP) Award.

Kung has been a member of the Harvard faculty since 1992.  He received his bachelor's degree from National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan and Ph.D. degree from Carnegie Mellon University.