LOS ALAMITOS, Calif., 23 September 2025 – The IEEE Computer Society (IEEE CS) today announced that Joaquim Jorge, currently serving on the IEEE CS Board of Governors, has been voted IEEE Computer Society 2026 president-elect (2027 president).
Joaquim Jorge is full professor at Instituto Superior Técnico, the School of Engineering of the Universidade de Lisboa, and holds the UNESCO Chair on Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Virtual Reality (VR). He teaches computer graphics, VR and human-computer interaction (HCI) and has successfully supervised/co-supervised 17 doctoral theses and 70+ Master of Science in Computer Science (MSc) dissertations. Jorge is a co-author of 400+ peer-reviewed publications, including 164 international conference papers, four books, and 87 journal articles. In addition, he has served as part of the international program committee of more than 220 conferences.
An IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitor and Contributor since 2021, Jorge received the 2024 IEEE Computer Society Golden Core Recognition. In addition, he became an IEEE Fellow in 2025, the same year he was inducted into the IEEE VR Academy. He currently serves on the IEEE Computer Society Publications Board.
Jorge will serve as the 2027 IEEE Computer Society president for a one-year term beginning 1 January 2027. The president oversees IEEE Computer Society programs and operations and is a nonvoting member of most IEEE Computer Society program boards and committees.
Jorge garnered 2,337 votes, compared with 1,899 votes cast for Nils Aschenbruck, IEEE CS 2025 vice president and full professor for computer science at Osnabrueck University, Germany, whose research focus is on dependable and robust networked systems including scenario modeling, traffic engineering, and network security.
The 2025 election had a 13.04% turnout with 4,457 ballots cast. The turnout percentage was slightly lower than the 2024 election, which had a 13.59% turnout (4,615 ballots cast), but higher than 2023, which held a 12.79% turnout (4,428 ballots cast).
2026 VICE PRESIDENT
Terry Benzel, managing director of the University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute, who leads research teams in cutting-edge research in network security, cyber experimentation methods, and the analysis of complex systems, was elected vice president with 2,120 votes.
Saurabh Bagchi, a professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Department of Computer Science at Purdue University, with research interests in dependable computing and distributed systems, garnered 1,103 votes. Cyril Onwubiko, the business information security officer at Barclays, who leads cybersecurity for their Chief Technology Office, earned 1,008 votes.
BOARD OF GOVERNORS
The six elected members of the Board of Governors for a three-year term from 1 January 2026 to 31 December 2028 are:
- Min Chen – University of Washington Bothell (2,343 votes)
- Sap Ghosh – NVIDIA (1,972 votes)
- Lizy K. John – University of Texas at Austin (2,398 votes)
- Rick Kazman – University of Hawaii (1,691 votes)
- Carolyn McGregor – Ontario Tech University (2,665 votes)
- Walter Scheirer – University of Notre Dame (2,158 votes)
Results for other Board of Governors candidates are as follows:
- Darren Galpin – Infineon Technologies (1,546 votes)
- Rajesh Ingle – Vigix Tech Pte. Ltd (1,181 votes)
- San Murugesan – BRITE Professional Services (1,276 votes)
- Sean Peisert – Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (1,671 votes)
- Janakarajan Ramkumar – Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (1,116 votes)
Candidates on the ballot are selected by the IEEE CS Nominations Committee or by petition. The Nominations Committee accepts nominations from members until March of the next year and presents its nominations to the Board of Governors for final slate approval.
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
In addition, 3,653 votes came in to approve the constitutional amendments to Article IV, Section 1 of the IEEE Computer Society Constitution. The amendments are intended to align the Constitution with IEEE Bylaw I-105, which states that Graduate Student Members are entitled to all rights and privileges of an IEEE member. The amendments also clarify that the Computer Society secretary is “selected” by the Board of Governors rather than “elected” by Computer Society members. These amendments will be effective in sixty (60) days.
Complete results of the 2025 IEEE Computer Society election will be published in the December issue of Computer.
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