Professor Claudia Maria Bauzer Medeiros has received a 2026 ACM Presidential Award recognizing her long-standing and significant contributions to the Brazilian and Latin American computing communities as well as to the Association for Computing Machinery.

Professor Medeiros is a Full Professor at the Instituto de Computação at the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp) in Brazil. She earned her MSc from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro in 1979, followed by a PhD in Computer Science from Waterloo in 1985.

“Claudia is so well deserving of this award,” said Distinguished Professor Emeritus Frank Tompa, who was Professor Medeiros’s PhD advisor. “She was an inquisitive and inventive student, who grew into an exceptional researcher, educator, leader, and mentor in Computer Science. Her good humour and effervescent personality encourage others to excel as well.”

The ACM Presidential Award is one of ACM’s highest honours, recognizing exceptional contributions to the computing community and the organization’s mission. The award is presented at the discretion of the ACM President.

Read the full announcement on ACM’s website.