Awards & Recognition

2026

SIAM Committee on Science Policy member — Jeffrey Larson

2025

Argonne Distinguished Fellow — Robert Ross
Best Reproducibility Advancement Award at SC25 for work on “RAPTOR: Practical Numerical Profiling of Scientific Applications” — Anshu Dubey and Akash Dhruv (and collaborators from ETH Zürich, RIKEN, and UIUC)
Better Scientific Software (BSSw) Fellowship — Junchao Zhang
Campanile Excellence in Achievement Award — Valerie Taylor
Editor-in chief for The International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications (IJHPCA) — Anshu Dubey
ICIAM President-Elect — Sven Leyffer
IEEE Distinguished Contributor —Sheng Di
IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing —Sheng Di
MGB-SIAM Early Career Fellowship — Kwassi Joseph Dzahini
SIAM Science Policy Fellowship — Jan Hückelheim
Software System Award from the Association for Computing Machinery — Rajeev Thakur, Yanfei Guo, Kenneth Raffenetti, Hui Zhou, William Gropp and Pavan Balaji
US-RSE Community Impact and Leadership — Rinku Gupta

2024

AWIS Scientist of the Month — Rinku Gupta
Better Scientific Software (BSSw) Fellowship — Ken Raffenetti
Charles Babbage Award — Franck Cappello
DOE Office of Science Distinguished Scientist Fellow — Lois Curfman McInnes
Euro-Par Achievement Award — Franck Cappello
Outstanding Postdoctoral Performance Award in Basic Research — Robert Underwood
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
U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary of Energy Honor Achievement Award for contributions to the Exascale Computing Project (ECP) — Lois Curfman McInnes, David Martin, Susan Coghlan, Todd Munson, and Yasaman Ghadar

2023

Argonne Distinguished Fellow — Sven Leyffer
DOE Early Career Award — Steven Brus
MGB-SIAM Early Career Award — Marieme Ngom
AAAS Fellow — Valerie Taylor
Distinguished Engineering Alumni/Alumnae Award from Purdue — Valerie Taylor

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

DOE Early Career Research Program Award — Tom Peterka
Argonne 2017 Postdoctoral Performance Award in Basic Research — Hanqi Guo
SIAM Fellow — Lois Curfman McInnes
Editor-in-chief of Communications of the ACM — Andrew Chien
ACME Outstanding Contribution Award — Azamat Mametjanov

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, 18^th IEEE Intl Conf. on High Performance Computing and Communications — Ian Foster
Best Paper Award, 12^th 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, 5^th 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

2013 IEEE Seymour Cray Award — Marc Snir
IEEE Fellow — Valerie Taylor
TCSC Award, IEEE — Marc Snir
Best Paper Prize for Computational Optimization and Applications journal for 2012 — Sven Leyffer

2012

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

2011

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

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

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

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