Professional societies and their conferences provide an important venue for disseminating scienti c knowledge. Delivering a keynote for or being named a fellow by an international society is a major recognition. Do such recognitions re ect the composition of the eld of bioinformatics? We compiled a list of 412 International Society for Computational Biology honorees (75 fellows and 337 keynote speakers). To assess the composition of senior researchers in the eld, we analyze the names and a liations of corresponding authors in leading bioinformatics journals. Comparing to the distribution based on names and a liations of honorees, we looked for disparities in gender, country of a liation, race, and name-origin. Name-origin predictions were created using a neural network trained on 700,000 name-nationality pairs mined from Wikipedia. The proportion of female honorees has kept pace with increasing levels of female authorship, but neither has yet to reach gender parity. However, we noticed a striking geographic disparity where the proportion of honorees with an a liation in the United States was 1.6-fold greater compared to eld-speci c senior authors. In total, we estimate the U.S. received 85 more honorees than would be expected from randomly selecting honorees from senior authors. Almost half of the excess in U.S. honorees was accounted for by a de cit of 41 honoree slots from China, France, and Italy. Furthermore, within the U.S., we identify racial disparities with an excess of white honorees and a depletion of Asian honorees. This pattern replicated globally, where we nd names of East Asian origin have been persistently underrepresented among ISCB honorees. Early indications suggest the ICSB has taken note of our ndings by selecting more diverse honorees.