Auburn University alumna Cherri M. Pancake was elected to a two-year term as president of the Association for Computing Machinery.

Pancake, ’86 doctorate in computer science, received her bachelor of arts from Auburn University, where she was the first woman to be admitted to any graduate engineering program in 1982. She is a professor emeritus and Intel Faculty Fellow of the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Oregon State University, and director of the Northwest Alliance for Computational Science and Engineering.

As president of ACM, Pancake said her vision is to proactively engage educators, practitioners and researchers in developing areas of computing through providing publication opportunities and conferences that will aid in pushing advances in their fields.

Along with Pancake, the new officers elected by ACM professional members represent almost 100,000 computing professionals and students who comprise the association’s international membership.