{"id":849,"date":"2022-12-30T17:46:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-30T22:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infoseeking.org\/iblog\/?p=849"},"modified":"2023-01-15T17:46:41","modified_gmt":"2023-01-15T22:46:41","slug":"congratulations-to-our-lab-director-dr-chirag-shah-for-this-milestone-recognition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infoseeking.org\/iblog\/2022\/12\/30\/congratulations-to-our-lab-director-dr-chirag-shah-for-this-milestone-recognition\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to our lab director Dr. Chirag Shah for this milestone recognition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/ischool.uw.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/ShahChirag2019_250.jpg\" alt=\"Chirag Shah\" width=\"165\" height=\"165\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ACM honors\u00a0iSchool&#8217;s Shah as Distinguished Member<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UW Information School Professor&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ischool.uw.edu\/people\/faculty\/profile\/chirags\">Chirag Shah<\/a>&nbsp;is among&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.acm.org\/media-center\/2022\/december\/distinguished-members-2022\">67 global scholars recognized this year as Distinguished Members<\/a>&nbsp;of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.acm.org\/\">Association for Computing Machinery<\/a>&nbsp;(ACM) for their outstanding contributions to the computing field.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ACM is the world\u2019s largest computing society. It recognizes up to 10 percent of its worldwide membership as distinguished members based on their professional experience, groundbreaking achievements and longstanding participation in computing. The ACM has three tiers of recognition: fellows, distinguished members and senior members. The Distinguished Member Recognition Program, which honors members with at least 15 years of professional experience, recognized Shah for his work at the intersection of information, access and responsible AI. Shah expressed his gratitude and appreciation for the award.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m incredibly grateful for all the support I\u2019ve received from everyone. It\u2019s a very humbling experience,\u201d said Shah.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shah has contributed a great deal of research related to people-centered information access and examining how biases and issues of discrimination that are present within information systems can be counteracted. One of Shah\u2019s significant contributions to the iSchool has been co-founding\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.raise.uw.edu\/\">Responsibility in AI Systems and Experiences<\/a>\u00a0(RAISE).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/ischool.uw.edu\/news\/2022\/12\/acm-honors-ischools-shah-distinguished-member?fbclid=IwAR10RqqU2ltZZ4P-OFlZUjlc1i62UYy1TgzlRRwJ5cqNzUtGZTVBP1O_TGY\">https:\/\/ischool.uw.edu\/news\/2022\/12\/acm-honors-ischools-shah-distinguished-member?fbclid=IwAR10RqqU2ltZZ4P-OFlZUjlc1i62UYy1TgzlRRwJ5cqNzUtGZTVBP1O_TGY<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ACM honors\u00a0iSchool&#8217;s Shah as Distinguished Member UW Information School Professor&nbsp;Chirag Shah&nbsp;is among&nbsp;67 global scholars recognized this year as Distinguished Members&nbsp;of the&nbsp;Association for Computing Machinery&nbsp;(ACM) for their outstanding contributions to the computing field.&nbsp; The ACM is the world\u2019s largest computing society. It recognizes up to 10 percent of its worldwide membership as distinguished members based on their professional experience, groundbreaking achievements and longstanding participation in computing. The ACM has three tiers of recognition: fellows, distinguished members and senior members. The Distinguished&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/infoseeking.org\/iblog\/2022\/12\/30\/congratulations-to-our-lab-director-dr-chirag-shah-for-this-milestone-recognition\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infoseeking.org\/iblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infoseeking.org\/iblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infoseeking.org\/iblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infoseeking.org\/iblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infoseeking.org\/iblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/infoseeking.org\/iblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":850,"href":"https:\/\/infoseeking.org\/iblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions\/850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infoseeking.org\/iblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infoseeking.org\/iblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infoseeking.org\/iblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}