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January 22, 2026
[Award] ACM Fellow (FY2025) — Professor Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi —
Professor Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi of the Department of Computer Science, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, and the National Institute of Informatics, has been named an ACM Fellow (FY2025). In addition, a profile page for Prof. Kawaharabayashi has been posted on the official ACM website following his induction as an ACM Fellow.
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), founded in 1947, is the world’s largest computing society and is known for the Turing Award. It has more than 110,000 members worldwide and annually recognizes the top 1% of its members as ACM Fellows.
On January 22 (January 21, U.S. local time), ACM announced its 2025 Fellows, and Professor Kawarabayashi was among those selected.
The award ceremony was held on June 13 (U.S. local time) in San Francisco.
At the award ceremony:
From left, Prof. Yannis Ioannidis (ACM current President), Prof. Kawaharabayashi, and Prof. Gabriele Kotsis (ACM Past President).
Message from Professor Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi
Department of Computer Science
Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo
I am deeply honored to have been selected as an ACM Fellow. I would not have received this recognition without the contributions of my collaborators, including postdoctoral researchers and graduate students. I also feel a great sense of responsibility in joining the many distinguished researchers in computer science whom I deeply respect.
As the tenth Japanese ACM Fellow, I am particularly pleased to follow in the footsteps of Professor Yonezawa and Professor Matsuoka in receiving this honor at the University of Tokyo.
(This English article was prepared with the support of AI.)
