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Awards
Scientists and engineers in the Scientific Data Division and the Applied Mathematics and Computational Research Division are regularly singled out for recognition not only for their research and technical accomplishments but also for outstanding bodies of work amassed over their careers.
2023
Department of Energy Secretary's Honor Awards | Mike Witherell, Jonathan Carter, Damian Rouson, Daniela Ushizima, Irfan Siddiqi, Jay Keasling, Jeffrey Long, Paul Adams, Kristin Persson, and Katherine Yelick
PMWC Pioneer, Precision Medicine World Conference 2023| Daniela Ushizima
NASA Exceptional Public Achievement Medal | Reijo Keskitalo
Best Poster, 1st Conference of the U.S. Research Software Engineer Association (US-RSE 2023) | Ludovico Bianchi, Dan Gunter, and Keith Beattie
Director's Award for Exceptional Achievement: Scientific | Shreyas Cholia and Alex Sim as part of the Superfacility Team
Director's Award for Exceptional Achievement: Scientific | Ann Almgren, John Bell, Junmin Gu, Revathi Jambunathan, Hannah Klion, Prabhat Kumar, Andrew Myers, and Weiqun Zhang as part of the WarpX Team
Director's Award for Exceptional Achievement: Scientific | Ann Almgren
Director's Award for Exceptional Achievement: Early Scientific Career | Zhi Jackie Yao
Director's Award for Exceptional Achievement: Early Scientific Career | Kanupriya Pande
Director's Award for Exceptional Achievement: IDEA | Monica Hernandez
Egon Balas Prize, INFORMS Optimization Society | Stefan Wild
Best Paper, WACCPD Workshop, SC23 | Oscar Antepara and Samuel Williams
2022
Honorable Mention, Better Scientific Software (BSSw) Fellowship Program | Jean Luca Bez
ACM Gordon Bell Prize | Andrew Myers and Weiqun Zhang
Fellow, Oppenheimer Science & Energy Leadership Program (OSELP) | Bert de Jong
Best Paper, IEEE Large Scale Data Analysis and Visualization (LDAV) symposium | Gunther Weber and Oliver Rübel
Grace Hopper Fellow | Helen Xu
Director's Award for Exceptional Achievement: Scientific | Michael Wehner
Director's Award for Exceptional Achievement: Early Scientific Career | Marcus Noack
Director's Award for Exceptional Achievement: Early Scientific Career | Talita Perciano
Director's Award for Exceptional Achievement: IDEA | Silvia Crivelli
Director's Award for Exceptional Achievement: Stewardship | David Brown
Best Paper, IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE22) | Wim Lavrijsen, Costin Iancu, Bert de Jong, and Julianne Mueller
Editorship, Computer Physics Communication journal | Bert de Jong
Marie Curie Fellowship | Lindsay Bassman
Special Meritorious Award for Engineering Innovation, Hart Energy, PARETO | Deb Agarwal and Dan Gunter
Best Paper Prize, SIAM Activity Group on Supercomputing | Sherry Li
2021
Best Paper, 12th IEEE International Workshop on Performance Modeling, Benchmarking and Simulation of High Performance Computer Systems (PMBS21) | Khaled Ibrahim, Tan Nguyen, Leonid Oliker, and Samuel Williams
Best Research Poster, SC21 | Ann Almgren and Weiqun Zhang
Member, DARPA ISAT Study Group | Sean Peisert
Simons Investigator in Mathematics, Simons Foundation | Lin Lin
Early Career Research Program Award, U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science | Robert Saye
Early Career Research Program Award, U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science | Ariful Azad
Alvarez Fellow | Osman Malik
Berkeley Lab IPO Inventor of the Year Award | Darren Lyles
Berkeley Lab IPO Inventor of the Year Award | George Michelogiannakis
2020
AAAS Fellow | Bert de Jong
AAAS Fellow | Esmond Ng
AAAS Fellow | John Owens
Director's Award for Exceptional Achievement: Data Science & Technology | Deb Agarwal
Best Paper, IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE20) | Costin Iancu and Irfan Siddiqi
Inaugural Steering Committee Member, California Water Data Consortium (CWDC) | Deb Agarwal
R&D100 Award for the Institute for the Design of Advanced Energy Systems (IDAES) | Deb Agarwal and Dan Gunter
Alvarez Fellow | Aditi Krishnapriyan
2019
Best Paper, Sixth Workshop on Accelerator Programming Using Directives (WACCPD) | Honzhang Shan
Best Paper, Performance Modeling, Benchmarking and Simulation of High Performance Computer Systems (PMBS19) | Nan Ding and Samuel Williams
Best Paper, Bench 2019: The International Symposium on Benchmarking, Measuring and Optimizing | Khaled Ibrahim, Samuel Williams, and Leonid Oliker
R&D100 Award for Neurodata Without Borders: Neurophysiology (NWB:N)| Oliver Rübel, Kristofer Bouchard, Andrew Tritt, and Ryan Ly
Best Paper, International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP2019) | Mauro Del Ben, Osni Marques, and Andrew Canning
Best Paper, International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS) | Pablo Enfedaque and Stefano Marchesini
Keynote Speaker, ISC High Performance conference (ISC19) | John Shalf
Committee Member, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine | Shreyas Cholia
Alvarez Fellow | Zhi Jackie Yao
2018
Berkeley Lab Prize – Lifetime Achievement Award | John Bell
Berkeley Lab Prize – Lifetime Achievement Award | Phil Colella
Klaus Halbach Award for innovative instrumentation at the Advanced Light Source (ALS) | Hari Krishnan and Stefano Marchesini
Best Paper, International Academy, Research, and Industry Association’s (IARIA’s) Computation Tools conference | Esmond Ng and Chao Yang
ACM Software System Award for Project Jupyter | Fernando Pérez
Co-Spokesperson of the CMB-S4 experiment | Julian Borrill
Alvarez Fellow | Tess Smidt
2017
Director’s Award for Exceptional Achievement: Outreach | Dani Ushizima
DOE Early Career Award | Mariam Kiran
DOE Early Career Award | Lin Lin
ISC Fellow, ISC High Performance conference (ISC17) | Erich Strohmaier
Early Career Prize, SIAM Activity Group on Computational Science and Engineering (SIAM/CSE) | Lin Lin
Alvarez Fellow | Yu-Hang (Maxin) Tang
2016
R&D100 Award for the CCSI Toolset | David Brown, Joshua Boverhof, Abdelrahman Elbashandy, You-Wei Cheah, Sarah Poon, Biju Jacob, Abdelilah Essiari, Deb Agarwal, Keith Beattie, and Paolo Calafiura
Director’s Award for Exceptional Achievement: Early Scientific Career | Hari Krishnan
Director’s Award for Exceptional Achievement: Early Scientific Career | Oliver Rübel
NASA Exceptional Public Achievement Medal | Julian Borrill
Specialist Editor of the journal Computer Physics Communications | Bert de Jong
SIAM Fellow, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) | Xiaoye (Sherry) Li
Alvarez Fellow | Matthew Zahr
2015
Council Member, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) | Xiaoye (Sherry) Li
R&D100 Award for OpenMSI | Ben Bowen and Oliver Rübel
Director’s Award for Exceptional Achievement: Diversity | Deb Agarwal
Director’s Award for Exceptional Achievement: Service | James Sethian
IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence for Early Career Researchers | Aydın Buluç
DOE Early Career Award | Dani Ushizima
IEEE Technology Milestone Award | David Patterson
ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award | James Demmel
SIAM Fellow, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) | Ann Almgren
SIAM Fellow, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) | Esmond Ng
Guest Editor, Special Issue of IEEE's Security & Privacy Magazine | Sean Peisert
Alvarez Fellow | Jarrod McClean
2014
HPC Challenge Award, SC14 conference | Khaled Ibrahim
National Medal of Science | Alexandre Chorin
Best Paper Award, JSCORE14, presented by the U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) Director of Science and Technology | Sean Peisert
Challenge Winner, IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI 2014) | Dani Ushizima
Member, Board on Mathematical Sciences and their Applications (BMSA) of the National Academies | John Bell
Data Science Senior Fellow, Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) | Deb Agarwal
Data Science Senior Fellow, Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) | Wes Bethel
Data Science Senior Fellow, Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) | Peter Nugent
Data Science Senior Fellow, Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) | James Sethian
Data Science Fellow, Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) | Dani Ushizima
Alvarez Fellow | Juliane Mueller
IEEE Internet Award | Vern Paxson
Honorable Mention, 2013 International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge | Robert Saye and James Sethian
2013
Research Fellow, Simons Institute | Sang-Yun Oh
Berkeley Lab Prize for Lifetime Scientific Achievement | Ari Shoshani
DOE Early Career Award | Aydın Buluç
Member, National Academy of Sciences | James Sethian
IEEE Senior Member | David Burke
Alvarez Fellow | Robert Saye
2012
ACM Distinguished Scientist | Wes Bethel
DOE Early Career Award | Hank Childs
Member, National Academy of Sciences | John Bell
Alvarez Fellow | Lex Kemper
Alvarez Fellow | Didem Unat
Best Paper, 20-Year Anniversary Award at HPDC, the International ACM Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing | John Shalf
Best Scientific Paper, Cozzarelli Prize | James Sethian and Robert Saye
2011
ACM SIGCOMM Award | Vern Paxson
ICIAM Lagrange Prize | Alexandre Chorin
ICIAM Pioneer Prize | James Sethian
ICIAM Invited Speaker | John Bell
Honoree, "Top 10 Innovators of the Decade," Advanced Trading Magazine | David Leinweber
Member, National Academy of Sciences | James Demmel
Sloan Research Fellow | Per-Olof Persson
Sloan Research Fellow | Koushik Sen
Alvarez Fellow | Lin Lin
2010
NASA Public Service Group Award | Julian Borrill, Christopher Cantalupo, and Ted Kisner
Fellow, American Physical Society | Niels Gornbech-Jensen
IEEE Sidney Fernbach Award | James Demmel
NSF Faculty Early Career Development Award (CAREER) | Jon Wilkening
SIAM Junior Scientist Prize | Kamesh Madduri
Alvarez Fellow | Aydın Buluç
Alvarez Fellow | Anubhav Jain
2009
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | Juan Meza
ACM Gordon Bell Prize | Horst Simon
U.S. Air Force Young Investigator | Per-Olaf Persson
Member, Hispanic Business Magazine's "100 Influentials" | Juan Meza
Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) | Cecilia Aragon
SIAM Fellow | John Bell
SIAM Fellow | Alexandre Chorin
SIAM Fellow | Phil Colella
SIAM Fellow | James Demmel
SIAM Fellow | James Sethian
Alvarez Fellow | Aleksandr Donev
Alvarez Fellow | Lavanya Ramakrishnan
2009 Woman of Vision, Hispanic Business Magazine | Cecilia Aragon
2008
ACM Gordon Bell Prize for algorithm innovation | Lin-Wang Wang, Byounghak Lee, Hongzhang Shan, Zhengji Zhao, Juan Meza, Erich Strohmaier, and David Bailey
R&D100 Award for FastBit | Keshang (John) Wu, Arie Shoshani, Ekow Choo, and Kurt Stockinger
Alvarez Fellow | Kamesh Madduri
Best Paper Award, IEEE International Paralell and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS) | Samuel Williams
ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award | Vern Paxson
Member, National Academy of Engineering | James Sethian
Blackwell-Tapia Prize, sponsored by the National Science Foundation | Juan Meza
Distinguished Scientist, Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics & Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) | Juan Meza
2007
Gruber Prize in Cosmology | Peter Nugent
NASA Allocation Award | Marc Day
Alvarez Fellow | George Pau
2006
Inaugural Seaborg Postdoctoral Fellow | Andy Aspen
SIGCOMM Test of Time Award | Vern Paxson
AIAA Space Processing Award | Phil Concus
Fellow, American Physical Society | Lin-Wang Wang
2005
Member, National Academy of Engineering | David Culler
Sidney Fernbach Award, IEEE Computer Society | John Bell
Timoshenko Medal for Applied Mathematics | Grigory Isaakovich Barenblatt
Alvarez Fellow | Raquel Romano
Alvarez Fellow | Joshua Schrier
Featured Cover Story, National Academy of Sciences Proceedings (PNAS Journal), documenting the first computer simulation of lab-scale combustion | John Bell, Marc Day, Ian Shepherd, Matthew Johnson, Robert Cheng, Joseph Grear, Vincent Beckner, and Michael Lijewski
2004
Member, National Academy of Sciences | Phil Colella
Norbert Weiner Prize in Applied Mathematics | James Sethian
2003
SIAM/ACM Prize in Computational Science & Engineering | John Bell and Phil Colella
2002
University Professor | University of California | Alexandre Chorin
R&D100 Award for the Remote Access Grid Explorer (RAGE) telepresence robot | John Shalf, Zach Radding, Deb Agarwal, Keith Jackson, Marcia Perry, Martin Stoufer, Joshua Boverhof, Dan Gunter and Clayton Bagwell
Inaugural Alvarez Fellow | Andreas Adelmann
2001
IEEE Fellow | James Demmel
2000
ComputerWorld Smithsonian Laureate | Andrew Canning
Honorees, "Algorithms of the Century," Computing in Science & Engineering Magazine, for the PSLQ Algorithm | David Bailey, Helaman Ferguson, and Stephen Arno
Foreign Member, Royal Society of London | Grigory Isaakovich Barenblatt
AMS/SIAM Norbert Weiner Prize | Alexandre Chorin
Honoree, "Top 25 Women of the Web," Upside Magazine | Deb Agarwal
1999
J.C. Maxwell Medal & Prize | Grigory Isaakovich Barenblatt
Carl Benz Award for Best Industrial Application (DaimlerChrysler) | James Demmel and R.L. Taylor
G.I. Taylor Medal, U.S. Socieity of Engineering Science | Grigory Isaakovich Barenblatt
ACM Fellow | James Demmel
Member, National Academy of Engineering | James Demmel
1998
1998 Gordon Bell Prize | Andrew Canning
1998 IEEE Sidney Fernbach Award | Phil Colella
