About ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award

Awarded to the outstanding young computer professional of the year, selected on the basis of a single recent major technical or service contribution. This award is accompanied  by a prize of $35,000. The candidate must have been 35 years of age or less at the time the qualifying contribution was made, though allowance may be made for interrupted or second careers. Financial support of the Grace Murray Hopper Award is provided by Microsoft.

 

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Prateek Mittal Receives ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award

Prateek Mittal, Princeton University, is the recipient of the 2023 ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award for foundational contributions to safeguarding Internet privacy and security using a cross-layer approach. The unifying theme in Mittal’s research is to leverage foundational techniques from network science, comprising graph-theoretical mechanics, data mining, and inferential modeling for tackling privacy and security challenges. Taken together, his contributions are impacting the privacy and integrity of global commerce, financial services, online healthcare, and everyday communications.

2023 Grace Murray Hopper Award recipient Prateek Mittal

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