Awards & Recognition

2024

ACM Senior Member – Victor Mateevitsi
AWIS Scientist of the Month – Rinku Gupta
Charles Babbage Award – Franck Cappello
DOE Office of Science Distinguished Scientist Fellow – Lois Curfman McInnes
Euro-Par Achievement Award – Franck Cappello
IEEE Senior Member – Victor Mateevitsi
UChicago Argonne Board of Governors Award for Excellence in Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility – Research Mentor Skills Series Team – Beth Drewniak, Kathy Eggers (ALI-HRS), Álvaro Vázquez-Mayagoitia, and Todd Munson
UChicago Argonne Board of Governors James B. Porter, Jr. Team Award for Outstanding Safety Performance – Aurora Install Team
UChicago Argonne Board of Governors Pinnacle of Education Award – Scott Collis

2023

AAAS Fellow – Valerie Taylor
ACM Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modeling for E3SM – Jayesh Krishna and Danqing Wu
Argonne Commercialization Excellence Awards: Delivering Impact Award – Venkatram Vishwanath, Michael E. Papka, William Allcock, and Filippo Simini
Argonne Distinguished Fellow – Sven Leyffer
ARM Service Award – Max Grover
Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher – Dionysios Antonopoulos
Climate Leadership Award for Climate Risk and Resilience Portal – Rao Kotamarthi
Distinguished Engineering Alumni/Alumnae Award from Purdue – Valerie Taylor
DOE Early Career Award – Steven Brus
IEEE SciVis Contest: First Place and Best Workflow – Tommy Marrinan, Victor Mateevitsi, and Michael E. Papka
ISAV Best Paper Award – Victor Mateevitsi, Nicola Ferrier, Paul Fischer, Joseph Insley, Yu-Hsiang Lan, Misun Min, Michael E. Papka, Saumil Patel, and Silvio Rizzi
MGB-SIAM Early Career Award – Marieme Ngom
R&D 100 Award for Cancer Distributed Learning Environment – Rick Stevens
R&D 100 Award for Cardinal: Accelerating Discovery in Fusion and Fission Energy – Paul Fischer and Misun Min
UChicago Argonne Board of Governors Award for Distinguished Performance – Michael E. Papka

2022

ACM Fellow – Robert Ross
ACM Gordon Bell Special Prize for GenSLMs – Alexander Brace, Kyle Hippe, Austin Clyde, Bharat Kale, Heng Ma, Carla Mann, Logan Ward, Valerie Hayot-Sasson, Murali Emani, Sam Foreman, Maulik Shukla, Ian Foster, Michael E. Papka, Thomas Brettin, Rick Stevens, Venkatram Vishwanath, and Arvind Ramanathan
ACM/IEEE Ken Kennedy Award – Ian Foster
Better Scientific Software Fellowship – Rob Latham
Elected Chair of SIAM Activity Group on Computing – Lois Curfman McInnes
Elected President of SIAM – Sven Leyffer
Elected Program director of SIAM Activity Group on the Mathematics of Planet Earth (SIAG/MPE) – Julie Bessac
Elected Secretary for the SIAM Activity Group on Uncertainty Quantification (SIAG/UQ) – Emil Constantinescu
HPDC Achievement Award – Franck Cappello
IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC) Award for Editorial Service and Excellence – Franck Cappello
Mathematical Programming Computation Best Paper Award – Sven Leyffer and Todd Munson
Patent awarded, US11340057B2: “Systems and methods for interferometric multifocus microscopy” – Kuan He, Oliver Strider Cossairt, Aggelos K. Katsaggelos, Norbert Scherer, and Mark Hereld
R&D 100 Award for Flash-X, a Multiphysics simulation software – Anshu Dubey
UChicago Argonne Board of Governors Award for Distinguished Performance – Energy Conservation Standards Environmental Impact Assessment Team
UChicago Argonne Board of Governors Award for Outstanding Service – Devin Hodge
UChicago Argonne Board of Governors Pinnacle of Education Award – Michael Papka
UChicago Argonne Board of Governors Pinnacle of Education Award – Todd Munson

2021

Argonne Distinguished Fellow – Lois Curfman McInnes
Argonne Distinguished Fellow – Pete Beckman
Black History Month Honoree on the Mathematically Gifted & Black website – Marieme Ngom
Chicago Crain’s 40 under 40 – Martin Suchara
DOE Early Career Award – Sheng Di
E. O. Lawrence Award – Robert Ross
Elected Chair of SIAM Activity Group on Computational Science and Engineering – Stefan Wild
Elected President of the Postdoctoral Society of Argonne – Kevin Brown
HPCWire Editors’ Choice award for Outstanding Leadership in High Performance Computing – Valerie Taylor
IEEE Outstanding Young Engineer Award – Ruslan Shaydulin
IFAC Young Author Award for Nonlinear Model Predictive Control Conference – Sungho Shin
Outstanding Simulation Publication Award – Matt Menickelly (and colleagues from Stanford University, University of Oxford, and Cornell University)
Patent: Automated Microbial Detection and Quantification – Jack Gilbert, Charlie Catlett, and Pete Beckman
R&D 100 Award for Mochi, a Customizable Data Navigation Tool– Robert Ross, Philip Carns, Shane Snyder, Rob Latham, and Matthieu Dorier
R&D 100 Award for SZ:A Lossy Compression Framework for Scientific Data– Franck Cappello and Sheng Di
UChicago Argonne Board of Governors Award for Distinguished Performance – Lois Curfman McInnes
UChicago Argonne Board of Governors Award for Excellence in Diversity & Inclusion – Argonne African American Employee Resource Group (AAA-ERG) – Jeffrey Larson
UChicago Argonne Board of Governors Award for Outstanding Service – Craig Stacey
UChicago Argonne Board of Governors Pinnacle of Education Award – Marta Garcia Martinez

2020

ACM Distinguished Member – Pavan Balaji
Argonne Outstanding Postdoctoral Performance Award – Iwasaki Shintaro
Elected Secretary of SIAM Activity Group on Optimization – Stefan Wild
DOE Early Career Award – Bogdan Nicolae
DOE Early Career Award – Stefan Wild
DOE Project Leadership Institute Award – Todd Munson
Named Associate Editor in Chief of Special Sections for IEEE journal – Pavan Balaji
UChicago Argonne Board of Governors Award for Outstanding Accomplishment in Collaborative Research – CMB-S4 Team
UChicago Argonne Board of Governors Award for Outstanding Service – Gail Pieper

2019

DOE Early Career Award – Kibaek Kim
Elected Program Director of SIAG Activity Group on Computational Science and Engineering – Stefan Wild
Elected Secretary of ICIAM – Sven Leyffer
Editorial Board of SIAM News – Oana Marin
Honorable mention in Elevating Mathematics Video Competition – Vishwas Rao
IEEE Computer Society Charles Babbage Award – Ian Foster
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems Editorial Excellence Award – Pavan Balaji
IEEE Women in Services Computing Award – Kate Keahey
IEEE-Chicago Distinguished Research and Development Award – Sheng Di
Outstanding Dissertation Award – Johann Rudi
Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers – Victor Zavala
R&D 100 Award for Scalable Checkpoint/Restart (SCR) framework – Franck Cappello, Sheng Di, Rinku Gupta, and Bogdan Nicolae
R&D 100 Award for Unified Communications X (UCX) – Pavan Balaji, Yanfei Guo, Ken Raffenetti, Min Si, and Rohit Zambre
SIAM Fellow – Mihai Anitescu
UChicago Argonne Board of Governors Award for Distinguished Performance – Charlie Catlett

2018

ACM Distinguished Member – Raj Kettimuthu
American Chemical Society’s Class of Influential Researcher – Victor Zavala
Del Favero department best thesis prize, MIT – John Tramm
DOE Early Career Research Award – Prasanna Balaprakash
Editor in chief of Mathematical Programming Series B – Sven Leyffer
IEEE-Chicago Distinguished Mentoring Award – Sheng Di
IEEE Computer Society TCHPC Award for Excellence for Early Career Researchers in High Performance Computing – Min Si
Patent awarded, “Method for phase retrieval to reduce a sampling requirement when imaging a dynamic process” – Stefan Wild and Stephan Hruszkewycz (MSD)
R&D 100 Award for Darshan – Philip Carns, Rob Ross, Rob Latham, Shane Snyder, and Kyle Harms

2017

ACME Outstanding Contribution Award – Azamat Mametjanov
Argonne Postdoctoral Performance Award in Basic Research – Hanqi Guo
DOE Early Career Research Program Award – Tom Peterka
Editor-in-chief of Communications of the ACM – Andrew Chien
SIAM Fellow – Lois Curfman McInnes

2016

ACM Fellow – Valerie Taylor
Best Paper Award, 12^th International Conference on eScience – Ian Foster
Best Paper Award, 18^th IEEE Intl Conf. on High Performance Computing and Communications – Ian Foster
Best Paper Award at the SC workshop “Computational Approaches for Cancer at SC16” – Justin Wozniak and others
Distinguished Carl Adam Petri Lecture – Ian Foster
Farkas Prize – Sven Leyffer
George Westinghouse Silver Medal from American Society of Mechanical Engineers – Elia Merzari
Government Technology Top 25 Innovators in the Public Sector – Charlie Catlett
IEEE Fellow – Franck Cappello
NERSC Award for Innovative Use of High Performance Computing (Early Career Category) – Mi Sun Min
R&D 100 Award for NekCEM/Nek5000 - Scalable high-Order Simulation Codes – Mi Sun Min and Paul Fischer
Seiichi Tejima Doctoral Dissertation Award – Abdelhalim (Halim) Amer

2015

Argonne Distinguished Fellow – Barry Smith
Association for Women in Science Chicago Innovator Award – Kate Keahey
IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing (Middle Career) – Pavan Balaji
International Data Corporation HPC Innovation Excellence Award – Stefan Wild and Shashi Aithal
SIAM/ACM Prize in Computational Science and Engineering, PETSc core group – Satish Balay, Jed Brown, William Gropp, Matthew Knepley, Lois Curfman McInnes, Barry Smith, and Hong Zhang
UChicago Argonne Board of Governors Award for Distinguished Performance – Pete Beckman

2014

Best Paper Award, 5^th Workshop on Scientific Cloud Computing – Ketan Maheshwari, Justin Wozniak, Victor Zavala Tejeda, Michael Wilde, et al.
DOE Early Career Research Program Award – Emil Constantinescu
IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing – Ian Foster
IEEE TCSC Young Achievers in Scalable Computing Award – Jed Brown
Indiana University Career Achievement Award – Pete Beckman
Nemhauser Best Student Paper Award – Kibaek Kim
SIAM Activity Group on Supercomputing (SIAG/SC) Junior Scientist Prize – Jed Brown
SIAM SIGEST Award – Stefan Wild
Young Member Engineering Achievement Award – Elia Merzari (joint appointment with NE Division)

2013

Best Paper Prize for Computational Optimization and Applications journal for 2012 – Sven Leyffer
IEEE Fellow – Valerie Taylor
IEEE Seymour Cray Award – Marc Snir
TCSC Award, IEEE – Marc Snir

2012

AAAS Fellow – Paul Fischer
Crain’s Chicago 40 under 40 List – Pavan Balaji
DOE Early Career Research Program Award – Victor Zavala and Pavan Balaji
Inaugural ACM High Performance Distributed Computing Lifetime Achievement Award – Ian Foster
R&D 100 Award – Globus Online

2011

E.O Lawrence Award – Barry Smith and Lois Curfman McInnes
IEEE Computer, Tsutomu Kanai Award – Ian Foster

2010

Honorary Doctorate, Research and Advanced Studies Center of the National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico – Ian Foster
HPCWire’s Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Award, DOE’s cloud computing testbed project – “Magellan”

2009

Fellow, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) – Ian Foster
Fellow, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) – Sven Leyffer, Jorge More, and Hans Kaper
R&D 100 Award – PETSc

2008

Achievement Award, World Academy of Science – Raj Kettimuthu
Advanced Scientific Computing Research Top 10 Accomplishment Award, U.S. DOE – Portable, Extensible Software Toolkit (PETSc)
Editor in Chief, Mathematical Methods of Operations Research (2008-2014) – Sven Leyffer
Outstanding Young Alumni Award, Clemson University – Rob Ross

2007

AAAS Fellow – Andrew Chien
Data Analysis Award, SC07 (Supercomputing International Conference) – Ian Foster , Ti Leggett, and Mike Papka
Fellow, Kavli Frontiers Fellow – Todd Munson
Outstanding Achievement Award, National Cancer Institute’s Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid – Raj Kettimuthu
Patent awarded, U.S. Patent 7,180,082, “Development of a method for plasma formation for extreme ultraviolet lithography-theta pinch,” – Ahmed Hassanein, Isak Konkashbaev, and Bryan Rice
Storage Challenge Competition, SC07 (Supercomputing International Conference) – Pavan Balaji

2006

Director’s Award for Merit Review Excellence, National Science Foundation – Hans Kaper
Fellow, ACM – William Gropp
IEEE Fellow – Andrew Chien
Industry Leadership Award, GridWorld – Ian Foster
Lagrange Prize in Continuous Optimization, Mathematical Programming Society and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics – Sven Leyffer

2005

50 Most Powerful People in Networking, Network World – Ian Foster
Achievement Award, World Academy of Science – Raj Kettimuthu
Presidential Early Career Award – Todd Munson

2004

ACM Fellow – Andrew Chien
Annual Publishing Award, PE – Dan Negrut
Arthur Holly Compton Award – Ian Foster
DOE Citation 2004 MICS Accomplishments – MCS
Fellow, World Technology Network – Rick Stevens
Presidential Early Career Award – Rob Ross
Top 50 Agenda Setter, Silicon.com – Ian Foster
Wireless Emergency Response Team Award – Sandra Bittner

2003

Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer, Federal Laboratory Consortium – Ian Foster and S. Tuecke
Beale-Orchard-Hays Prize, Mathematical Programming Society – Jorge Moré, Todd Munson, E. Dolan
DOE Citation FY2003 MICS Accomplishments – MCS
Fellow, AAAS – Ian Foster
Fellow, AAAS – Rick Stevens
Illinois Innovation Award – Ian Foster
Innovator of the Year, Info World – Ian Foster (with S. Tuecke)
Innovator of the Year, R&D Magazine – Ian Foster
Lovelace Medal, MIT Technology Review – Ian Foster
Outstanding Mentor Award, DOE – Gregor von Laszewski
R&D 100 Award for Globus Toolkit – Ian Foster with S. Tuecke
Top 50 Agenda Setter, Silicon.com – Ian Foster