[25/03/2025] Professor Michael O’Boyle, Chair in Computer Science at the School of Informatics, is among thirteen new Royal Society of Edinburgh fellows from the University of Edinburgh. The Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE), Scotland’s National Academy, announced its 2025 cohort of over 40 new Fellows from across science, the arts, business, public life, and academia on 24th March. Recognition for compiler research Professor O'Boyle is a Chair in Computer Science at the School of Informatics. His research interests include adaptive compilation, machine learning-based optimisation, auto-parallelising compilers, and heterogeneous GPGPU multi-core platforms. He is a founding member of the European Network of Excellence on High Performance and Embedded Architecture and Compilation and the director of the ARM Centre of Excellence. He has been awarded multiple best paper, distinguished paper, and test of time awards for his outputs. I am delighted that the compiler research at Edinburgh has been recognised. I am honoured to be elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and would like to thank my colleagues in ICSA and Informatics more broadly, for their generous support over the years. I am excited about the future and how machine learning continues to transform our domain. Michael O’Boyle Chair in Computer Science, School of Informatics Outstanding individuals shaping the society The RSE Fellowship comprises around 1800 leading experts in the sciences, arts, business, professions, and the third and public sectors, all with links to Scotland. Among prominent figures being elected this year are a pioneer of space technology, Professor Asad Madni, cartoonist and illustrator Kate Charlesworth, Director of the Scottish Centre for Employment Relations, Professor Patricia Findlay, and David Field, Chief Executive of the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland. It is my sincere pleasure to welcome each of our new Fellows – from the worlds of academia, public service, business, and the arts – to Scotland’s National Academy. They represent excellence in their fields and will reinforce our ability to tackle the challenges that Scotland, and indeed the wider world, faces now and in the future. Across a range of disciplines, they have each shown an unshakeable commitment to their research, work or craft, and it is exactly this superlative level of accomplishment that makes them belong as Fellows of the RSE. I would like to extend my heartfelt congratulations to all of our new Fellows, and I hope they will avail themselves of all that our great National Academy has to offer them. Professor Sir John Ball PRSE President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Related links Full list of 2025 RSE Fellows Link to University of Edinburgh announcement Link to Michael O'Boyle’s personal page Tags 2025 Award Research Staff Publication date 31 Mar, 2025
