George Candea honored as 2025 ACM Fellow
Professor George Candea © 2026 EPFL
IC professor has been named an Association for Computing Machinery Fellow recognizing his broad contributions to dependable computer systems.
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has announced its 2025 fellows for achieving remarkable results through their technical innovations and/or service to the field.
EPFL’s George Candea, a full professor of computer science in the School of Computer & Communication Sciences and head of the Dependable Systems Laboratory, is one of this year’s honorees, chosen from among ACM’s global membership of more than 100,000 computing professionals.
Candea’s current research is on the principles and practice of achieving predictable performance and energy efficiency in computer systems. His main focus is on real-world systems, both large- and small-scale, that face fundamental challenges lying beyond the reach of classic techniques.
In the past, he made contributions to the design of fast-recovering systems, formal verification of systems code, scalable program analysis techniques, automated immunization of systems against bugs, automated testing and debugging, system security, and more.
He is a recipient of the ACM Mark Weiser Award, the Eurosys Jochen Liedtke Young Researcher Award, the MIT TR35 Young Innovators award, and several Best Paper awards.
Candea served as CEO and later Chief Scientist of Cyberhaven, a cybersecurity company he co-founded with four of his PhD students. Earlier, he was CTO and then Chief Scientist of Aster Data Systems (now Teradata Vantage), a big-data company he co-founded with two colleagues. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University and a B.S. and M.Eng. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT.
“These men and women represent the top 1% of professionals in our association,” explained ACM President Yannis Ioannidis. “I personally enjoy reviewing the list of achievements of the new Fellows because it offers a snapshot of what’s happening in our field right now.”
The 2025 ACM Fellows will be formally recognized during an awards banquet on June 13 in San Francisco.