Argonne National Laboratory

Mathematics and Computer Science

Awards & Recognition

Nearly two decades of accolades

2023

2022

  • Secretary for the SIAM Activity Group on Uncertainty Quantification (SIAG/UQ) – Emil Constantinescu
  • Program director of SIAM Activity Group on the Mathematics of Planet Earth (SIAG/MPE) – Julie Bessac
  • Patent awarded, US11340057B2: ​“Systems and methods for interferometric multifocus microscopy” – Kuan He, Oliver Strider Cossairt, Aggelos K. Katsaggelos, Norbert Scherer, and Mark Hereld
  • 2022 Pinnacle of Education – Argonne Board of Governors – Todd Munson
  • 2022 R&D 100 Award – R&D Magazine – Flash-X, a Multiphysics simulation software – Anshu Dubey
  • HPDC 2022 Achievement Award – Franck Cappello
  • Chair of SIAM Activity Group on Computing – Lois Curfman McInnes
  • Mathematical Programming Computation Best Paper Award – Sven Leyffer and Todd Munson
  • SIAM President – Sven Leyffer
  • IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC) Award for Editorial Service and Excellence 2022 – Franck Cappello
  • Better Scientific Software Fellowship 2022 – Rob Latham
  • ACM Fellow – Robert Ross

2021

  • President of the Postdoctoral Society of Argonne – Kevin Brown
  • Chair of SIAM Activity Group on Computational Science and Engineering – Stefan Wild
  • Patent: Automated  Microbial Detection and Quantification – Jack Gilbert, Charlie Catlett, and Pete Beckman
  • HPCWire Editors’ Choice award for Outstanding Leadership in High Performance Computing 2021 – Valerie Taylor
  • UChicago Argonne Board of Governors 2021 Outstanding Service Award – Craig Stacey
  • 2021 Outstanding Simulation Publication Award – Matt Menickelly (and colleagues from Stanford University, University of Oxford, and Cornell University)
  • UChicago Argonne Board of Governors 2021 Distinguished Performance Award – Lois Curfman McInnes
  • Argonne Distinguished Fellow – Pete Beckman
  • Argonne Distinguished Fellow – Lois Curfman McInnes
  • UChicago Argonne Board of Governors 2021 Outstanding Service Award – Craig Stacey
  • Chicago Crain’s 40 under 40 – Martin Suchara
  • IEEE 2021 Outstanding Young Engineer Award – Ruslan Shaydulin
  • UChicago Argonne Board of Governors 2021 Excellence in Diversity & Inclusion Award – Jeffrey Larson
  • 2021 R&D 100 Award – R&D magazine – Mochi, a Customizable Data Navigation Tool – Robert Ross, Philip Carns, Shane Snyder, Rob Latham, Matthieu Dorier
  • 2021 R&D 100 Award - R&D magazine – SZ: A Lossy Compression Framework for Scientific Data – Franck Cappello, Sheng Di
  • Young Author Award at the 2021 International Federation of Automatic Control – Nonlinear Model Predictive Control Conference -- Sungho Shin
  • DOE Early Career Award – Sheng Di
  • 2021 Black History Month Honoree on the website Mathematically Gifted & Black website -- Marieme Ngom
  • HPCwire Editors’ Choice for Outstanding Leadership in HPC – Valerie Taylor
  • Young Author Award, International Federation of Automatic Control – Nonlinear Model Predictive Control Conference – Sungho Shin
  • E. O. Lawrence Award – Robert Ross

2020

  • DOE Early Career Awards – Bogdan Nicolae
  • DOE Early Career Awards  Stefan Wild
  • ACM Distinguished Member 2020 – Pavan Balaji
  • DOE Project Leadership Institute 2021 – Todd Munson
  • UChicago Argonne Board of Governors 2021 Outstanding Service Award –  Gail Pieper
  • Argonne 2020 Outstanding Postdoctoral Performance Award –  Iwasaki Shintaro
  • Pavan Balaji named Associate Editor in Chief of Special Sections for IEEE journal –  Pavan Balaji
  • Secretary of SIAM Activity Group on Optimization –  Stefan Wild

2019

  • UChicago Argonne Board of Governors 2021 Distinguished Performance Award – Charlie Catlett
  • R&D 100 award, R&D magazine – Unified Communications X (UCX) – Pavan Balaji, Yanfei Guo, Ken Raffenetti, Min Si, Rohit Zambre
  • R&D 100 award, R&D magazine – Scalable Checkpoint/Restart (SCR) framework – Franck Cappello, Sheng Di, Rinku Gupta, Bogdan Nicolae
  • Secretary of ICIAM – Sven Leyffer
  • IEEE Women in Services Computing Award – Kate Keahey
  • Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers – Victor Zavala
  • IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems Editorial Excellence Award  – Pavan Balaji
  • 2019 IEEE-Chicago Distinguished Research and Development Award – Sheng Di
  • Program director of SIAG Activity Group on Computational Science and Engineering – Stefan Wild
  • SIAM Fellow – Mihai Anitescu
  • Editorial Board of SIAM News – Oana Marin
  • DOE Early Career Award – Kibaek Kim
  • 2019 IEEE Computer Society Charles Babbage Award – Ian Foster
  • 2019 Outstanding Dissertation Award – Johann Rudi
  • Honorable mention in Elevating Mathematics Video Competition – Vishwas Rao

2018

  • R&D 100 award, R&D Magazine – Darshan - Philip Carns, Rob Ross, Rob Latham, Shane Snyder from MCS, K. Harms from LCF
  • American Chemical Society’s 2018 Class of Influential Researcher – Victor Zavala
  • Editor in chief of Mathematical Programming Series B – Sven Leyffer
  • 2018 IEEE-Chicago Distinguished Mentoring Award – Sheng Di
  • DOE Early Career Research Program Award – Prasanna Balaprakash
  • ACM Distinguished Member – Raj Kettimuthu
  • 2018 Del Favero department best thesis prize, MIT – John Tramm
  • Patent awarded, ​“Method for phase retrieval to reduce a sampling requirement when imaging a dynamic process” – Stefan Wild and Stephan Hruszkewycz (MSD)
  • IEEE Computer Society  TCHPC) Award for Excellence for Early Career Researchers in High Performance Computing – Min Si

2017

2016

  • ACM Fellow - Valerie Taylor
  • George Westinghouse Silver Medal from American Society of Mechanical Engineers - Elia Merzari
  • R&D100 award; NekCEM/Nek5000 - Scalable high-Order Simulation Codes - Mi Sun Min and Paul Fischer
  • Farkas Prize - Sven Leyffer
  • Distinguished Carl Adam Petri Lecture - Ian Foster
  • Government Technology Top 25 Innovators in the Public Sector - Charlie Catlett
  • 2016 NERSC Award for Innovative Use of HPC (Early Career Category) - Mi Sun Min
  • Seiichi Tejima Doctoral Dissertation Award - Abdelhalim (Halim) Amer
  • Best Paper Award at the SC workshop ​“Computational Approaches for Cancer at SC16” - Justin Wozniak and others
  • IEEE Fellow - Franck Cappello
  • Best Paper Award, 18th IEEE Intl Conf. on High Performance Computing and Communications - Ian Foster
  • Best Paper Award, 12th International Conference on eScience - Ian Foster

2015

  • UChicago Argonne Board of Governors 2021 Distinguished Performance Award – Pete Beckman
  • 2015 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
  • IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing (Middle Career) - Pavan Balaji
  • International Data Corporation HPC Innovation Excellence Award - Stefan Wild and Shashi Aithal
  • Association for Women in Science Chicago Innovator Award - Kate Keahey
  • Argonne Distinguished Fellow - Barry Smith

2014

  • DOE Early Career Research Program Award - Emil Constantinescu
  • Nemhauser Best Student Paper Award - Kibaek Kim
  • IEEE TCSC Young Achievers in Scalable Computing Award - Jed Brown
  • Best Paper Award, 5th Workshop on Scientific Cloud Computing - Ketan Maheshwari, Justin Wozniak, Victor Zavala Tejeda, Michael Wilde, et al.
  • 2014 SIAM SIGEST Award - Stefan Wild
  • 2014 Young Member Engineering Achievement Award - Elia Merzari (joint appointment with NE Division)
  • 2014 SIAM Activity Group on Supercomputing (SIAG/SC) Junior Scientist Prize - Jed Brown
  • Indiana University 2014 Career Achievement Award - Pete Beckman
  • IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing - Ian Foster

2013

2012

2011

2010

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

2009

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

2008

2007

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

2006

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

2005

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

2004

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

2003

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