On January 23, 2025, the world’s largest computing society, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), announced that 55 individuals are elected ACM Fellows for their transformative contributions to computing science and technology. Among the recipients is Jingren Zhou (9400), an alumnus of the USTC School of the Gifted Young.

Jingren Zhou entered the School in 1994 and graduated in 1999. He received a PhD in computer science from Columbia University in 2004. Twelve years later, As the Chief Scientist of Alibaba Cloud, he took the overall responsibility for research at the Alibaba Cloud and the Institute of Data Science & Technologies (iDST), and rising steadily to CTO of Alibaba Cloud Intelligence in 2022, and Executive Director of Alibaba East China in 2023.

In recent years, a number of alumni of the USTC School of the Gifted Young have been elected ACM Fellows. They are:

2024 Jingren Zhou (9400)

2023 Wenliang Du (8800), Xing Xie (9200)

2022 Xuanhui Wang (9800)

2021 Ninghui Li (8800)

2020 Chenyang Lyu (9000)

Congratulations to our honored alumni!