2020 SIGHPC Fellows Announced

SIGHPC has announced the twelve recipients of the ACM SIGHPC Computational and Data Science Fellowships for 2020. The program is intended to increase the diversity of students pursuing graduate degrees in data science and computational science, including women as well as students from racial/ethnic backgrounds that have been historically underrepresented in the computing field.

The 12 winners were selected from a highly competitive field of hundreds of applicants from all over the world and spanned disciplines from biochemistry and behavioral science to engineering and geosciences. Read More...

Patrick Flick Selected as 2020 Winner of SIGHPC's Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award; Bo Fang Selected for Honorable Mention

Dr. Patrick Flick (Georgia Tech'19) has won the 2020 SIGHPC Doctoral Dissertation Award. This award is given each year for the best doctoral dissertation completed in high performance computing (HPC) in the previous year, and includes a $2,000 cash prize. Dr. Bo Fang (University of British Columbia) was selected for Honorable Mention in the 2020 Dissertation Award. Nominations were evaluated on technical merit, the significance of the research contribution, the potential impact on theory and practice, and overall quality of work. Read more...

SIGHPC announces 2019 winner of Emerging Woman Leader in Technical Computing Award

Dr. Trilce Estrada is the 2019 ACM SIGHPC Emerging Woman Leader in Technical Computing award winner. Dr. Estrada is an associate professor in the department of Computer Science at the University of New Mexico. She is recognized for her innovative and transformative deployment of machine learning for knowledge discovery in molecular dynamic simulations and in situ analytics.

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Upcoming Events

SIGHPC is a proud sponsor of these upcoming conferences:

  • EuroMPI/USA 2020

    • September 21-24, 2020

    • Location: Austin, TX

  • SC20

    • International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis

    • Atlanta, GA

    • November 15-20, 2020

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