SIGEnergy Achievement Award 2025 Winner Announcement

Since 2025, SIGEnergy establishes an annual Achievement Award to recognize significant and lasting contributions by an individual to energy systems and informatics.

For the 2025 cohort, the award committee has chosen Srinivasan Keshav from University of Cambridge, as the inaugural SIGEnergy Achievement Award winner, for the following citation:

for pioneering contributions to energy systems and informatics, including seminal research, capacity building, and helping to create SIGENERGY and eEnergy.

Srinivasan Keshav is the Robert Sansom Professor of Computer Science in the Department of Computer Science and Technology at the University of Cambridge. His interests lie broadly at the intersection of computer science and sustainability. He received a B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Delhi in 1986 and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 1991. He was subsequently a Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Labs and an Associate Professor at Cornell. In 1999 he left academia to co-found Ensim Corporation and GreenBorder Technologies Inc. Returning to academia, he was at the University of Waterloo in Canada from 2003 to 2019, holding a Canada Research Chair and later the Cisco Chair in Smart Grid. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, ACM, and IEEE, and a Distinguished Alumnus of IIT Delhi. He has served as Chair of ACM SIGCOMM and founding Vice-Chair of ACM SIGEnergy.

Keshav will receive the award at ACM e-Energy 2025, June 17-20, 2025, Rotterdam, Netherlands.