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Prof. Amanda Randles announced as Winner of the 2023 ACM SIGHPC Emerging Woman Leader in Technical Computing Award
Dr. Amanda Randles is the 2023 ACM SIGHPC Emerging Woman Leader in Technical Computing award winner. Dr. Randles is the Alfred Winborne and Victoria Stover Mordecai Associate Professor of Biomedical Sciences at Duke University and holds positions with the departments of Biomedical Engineering, Engineering and Materials Science, and Computer Science. She is also member of the Duke Cancer Institute. She is recognized for her innovative work in developing new approaches to circulatory blood flow simulation at all scales of computing, as well as her dedicated mentorship and community service.
The Emerging Woman Leader in Technical Computing award is unique in recognizing mid-career women in the technical and high performance computing communities. The award is presented annually in recognition of the candidate’s impact on her chosen field, as indicated by early career achievements and her commitment to growing our community through service and mentorship. The award is presented at the annual SC conference, the HPC community's most prestigious annual gathering.
Dr. Randles received her bachelor’s degree in Physics and Computer Science from Duke University, and her Masters and PhD in Applied Physics and Computational Science from Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. She also served as a CA Fellow at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, CA, and worked at IBM developing software for the Blue Gene series.
2023 SIGHPC Fellows Announced
ACM’s Special Interest Group on High Performance Computing (SIGHPC) has announced the six recipients of the ACM SIGHPC Computational and Data Science Fellowships for 2023. The fellowships are highly competitive, and are awarded after a rigorous merit review.
The fellowship program, funded exclusively by SIGHPC, 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 fellowship provides $15,000 annually for study anywhere in the world.
Students were nominated by their graduate advisors. Nominees spanned disciplines from computational biology and data visualization to mechanical engineering and deep learning for quantum systems. They represented large, mid-sized, and small institutions in countries around the world. More than 85% of nominees were female, and 71% identified as an underrepresented minority in their country of study.
2023 Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award Winner Dr. Keren Zhou
ACM's Special Interest Group on High Performance Computing (SIGHPC) is pleased to announce that Dr. Keren Zhou has won the 2023 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. Nominations were evaluated on the novelty of the work, quality of scholarship, significance of the research contributions, and potential impact on theory and practice. The award includes a $2,000 cash prize, a plaque, and recognition at the International Supercomputing Conference (SC’XY) in November.
Dr. Zhou's dissertation tackled the difficult research problem of understanding the performance of application codes accelerated on graphical processing units (GPUs), through the design and development of innovative techniques for performance instrumentation, measurement, and analysis, particularly in the context of the latest GPU technologies in use on high-end HPC platforms. His work not only made novel contributions to the state of performance art, but the methods have been integrated in real HPC tools and applied in the optimization of real-world heterogeneous HPC applications on modern supercomputers.
Dr. Zhou received his PhD in Computer Science from Rice University in 2022. Following completion of his graduate studies, Dr. Zhou worked as a member of the technical staff at OpenAI. Dr. Zhou will be an Assistant Professor at George Mason University starting in August 2023.
Torsten Hoefler Honored with the 2022 Sidney Fernbach Memorial Award
SIGHPC's very own Torsten Hoefler is being honored with the 2022 IEEE-CS Sidney Fernbach Memorial Award, presented for outstanding contributions in the application of high performance computers using innovative approaches. Hoefler will be presented with this award at SC22 on Wednesday, 16 November 2022 at 9am CST.
Torsten Hoefler is a Professor of Computer Science at ETH Zürich, Switzerland. He is also a key member of the Message Passing Interface (MPI) Forum where he chairs the "Collective Operations and Topologies" working group. His research interests revolve around the central topic of "Performance-centric System Design" and include scalable networks, parallel programming techniques, and performance modeling. Torsten won best paper awards at the ACM/IEEE Supercomputing Conferences SC10, SC13, SC14, SC19, EuroMPI'13, HPDC'15, HPDC'16, IPDPS'15, and other conferences. He published numerous peer-reviewed scientific conference and journal articles and authored chapters of the MPI-2.2 and MPI-3.0 standards. He received the Gordon Bell Prize, the Latsis prize of ETH Zurich, as well as both ERC starting and consolidator grants. Additional information about Torsten can be found on his homepage at htor.inf.ethz.ch.
Read more about the award.
Come Visit SIGHPC at SC22!
2022 Annual SIGHPC Member Meeting
The 2022 Annual SIGHPC Member Meeting will take place on November 15, 2022 at 12:15-1:15 CT at SC22 in room D174. The annual business meeting of SIGHPC is your opportunity to hear about and discuss the status of SIGHPC and its chapters. We will also be discussing upcoming plans for the year. All of the elected officers and many of the other volunteers will be present to answer your questions about SIGHPC. Representatives from our chapters will also be available.
SIGHHPC Booth at SC22
Come visit the SIGHPC Executive Council and other members of SIGHPC at the SIGHPC Booth at SC22! The booth will be located in Level 2 Lobby D, right across from registration.
2022 SIGHPC Fellows Announced
ACM’s Special Interest Group on High Performance Computing (SIGHPC) has announced the eleven recipients of the ACM SIGHPC Computational and Data Science Fellowships for 2022. The fellowships are highly competitive, and are awarded after a rigorous merit review. The fellowship program, previously funded by Intel, is now funded exclusively by SIGHPC.
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 fellowship provides $15,000 annually for study anywhere in the world.
Students were nominated by their graduate advisors. Nominees spanned disciplines from biomedical engineering and computer science to quantum chemistry and geophysics, and represented large, mid-sized, and small institutions in countries around the world. More than 90% of nominees were female, and 45% were identified as an underrepresented minority in their country of study.
Dr. Maciej Besta Selected as 2022 Winner of SIGHPC's Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award; Dr. Kazem Cheshmi is Selected for Honorable Mention
ACM's Special Interest Group on High Performance Computing (SIGHPC) is pleased to announce that Dr. Maciej Besta of ETH Zürich has won the 2022 SIGHPC Outstanding 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, a plaque, and recognition at the International Supercomputing Conference in November. Nominations were evaluated on technical depth, the significance of the research contribution, the potential impact on theory and practice, and overall quality of work. In addition, SIGHPC selected one submission from Dr. Kazem Cheshmi of University of Toronto for Honorable Mention in the 2022 Dissertation Award.
2022 Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award Winner, Dr. Maciej Besta
Dr. Jack Dongarra to give the ACM A.M. Turing Award Lecture at SC22
This week the SC22 Committee announced that the ACM A.M. Turing Award Lecture will replace the Keynote presentation at SC22. The ACM A.M. Turing Award Lecture will be at 9 a.m. CT on Tuesday, November 15, on the SC22 Main Stage in the Dallas Ballroom of the Omni Dallas Hotel and via the conference digital experience livestream. We look forward to hearing from Dr. Dongarra about his life and career, and we hope to see you there.
Read more about the award, often referred to as the “Nobel Prize of Computing”.
And don't miss this excellent video interview with Dr. Dongarra about his career - shown at the ACM Awards banquet this Spring.