August fifth, 2024 /
in Announcements, awards, CCC /
by
Petruce Jean-Charles
The Computing Group Consortium (CCC) is happy to announce that former council member Chad Jenkins has been awarded the 2024 Richard A. Tapia Achievement Award by the Middle for Minorities and Individuals with Disabilities in IT (CMD-IT).
This honor acknowledges his vital contributions to computing, together with his analysis in robotic studying and human-robot interplay, and his efforts to diversify the sphere. Jenkins, a Professor of Robotics and Electrical Engineering and Laptop Science on the College of Michigan, has made notable impacts in his area, reminiscent of growing strategies for robots to help folks in on a regular basis settings.
He has additionally been energetic in management roles, together with serving as Vice President for Instructional Actions for the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society and as a founding Editor-in-Chief for the ACM Transactions on Human-Robotic Interplay. Different contributions embody initiatives to help underrepresented communities in computing, reminiscent of serving to to determine The Skip Ellis Early Profession Award.
The award might be introduced on the CMD-IT/ACM Richard Tapia Celebration of Range in Computing Convention in San Diego in September.
“I’m deeply honored and grateful to be acknowledged with the 2024 Richard A. Tapia Achievement Award for Scientific Scholarship, Civic Science and Diversifying Computing. I’ve been extremely lucky to face on the shoulders of giants throughout the Tapia neighborhood,” Jenkins mentioned in an article for CMD-IT. “Becoming a member of the distinguished group of Richard A. Tapia Achievement Award honorees is a crowning accomplishment in my profession. I stay up for our continued work collectively as a neighborhood to increase and increase the ladder of alternative for future generations.”
Learn extra about his contributions here.
