We are delighted to award the 2022 ACL Distinguished Service Award to Professor Dragomir (Drago) Radev, professor at Yale University and longtime member of the ACL, for his longstanding and sustained service to the ACL in a variety of leadership and service roles. Professor Radev received his PhD in 1999 from Columbia University and his areas of research in NLP include graph-based analysis, text summarization, and social science applications. Radev is a Fellow of the ACL, the ACM, AAAI, and the AAAS.
Radev has a continuous record of service to ACL over nearly 20 years, as ACL secretary, NAACL treasurer, and several other roles. The role of ACL Secretary is many-faceted and requires constant monitoring and upkeep. Professor Radev is also one of the co-founders of the North American Computational Linguistics Open Competition (formerly called the North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad). His role in NACLO is extensive: as program chair, webmaster, and coach. This service shows Radev's dedication to education of the next generation of ACL scholars, and to international cooperation.