Awards & Recognition

2026

Association for Computing Machinery Distinguished Members — Bogdan Nicolae and Sheng Di
Association for Computing Machinery Fellow — Franck Cappello
International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM) President-Elect — Sven Leyffer
R&D 100 Award for OpenMC: A Simulation Toolkit for Next-Generation Nuclear Design — Paul Romano, Patrick Shriwise, John Tramm and Amanda Lund

2025

American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fellow — Jiwen Fan
Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Staff Service Awards — Evan Keeler, Jenni Kyrouac, Mark Spychala, Matt Tuftedal, Michael Ritsche, Patty Campbell, Ryan Sullivan and Sujan Pal
Better Scientific Software (BSSw) Fellowship — Junchao Zhang
Campanile Excellence in Achievement Award — Valerie Taylor
Ewing “Rusty” Lusk Best Paper for Implementing True MPI Sessions and Evaluating MPI Initialization Scalability — Hui Zhou, Mike Wilkins, Yanfei Guo and Rajeev Thakur
Horizon Prize — Paul Coffman, Adrian Pope, Álvaro Vázquez-Mayagoitia and Venkat Vishwanath
IEEE Distinguished Contributor — Sheng Di
IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing — Sheng Di
insideHPC Vanguard of HPC-AI — Victor Mateevitsi
MGB-SIAM Early Career Fellowship — Kwassi Joseph Dzahini
SC25 Best Reproducibility Advancement Award for RAPTOR: Practical Numerical Profiling of Scientific Applications — Akash Dhruv and Anshu Dubey
SC25 Test of Time Award for The Globus Striped GridFTP Framework and Server — Ian Foster, Bill Allcock and Rajkumar Kettimuthu
SIAM Science Policy Fellowship — Jan Hückelheim
Software System Award from the Association for Computing Machinery — Rajeev Thakur, Yanfei Guo, Hui Zhou, William Gropp and Pavan Balaji
US-RSE Community Impact and Leadership — Rinku Gupta

2024

ACM Senior Member — Victor Mateevitsi
AWIS Scientist of the Month — Rinku Gupta
Best Paper Award, ISAV 2024 — Victor Mateevitsi, Silvio Rizzi, Joseph Insley, Michael Papka, Thomas Marrinan, and Dimitrios Fytanidis
Best Paper Award, PMBS24 - Thomas Applencourt, Servesh Muralidharan, Colleen Bertoni, JaeHyuk Kwack, Ye Luo, Esteban Rangel, John Tramm, and Yasaman Ghadar
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
IEEE Chicago Section’s Distinguished Senior Research and Development Award — Mike Papka
IEEE Senior Member — Victor Mateevitsi
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
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
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

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