2025 Award Nominations Open

Call for Nominations: ACM SIGHPC Emerging Woman Leader in Technical Computing Award

Nominations are now open for this prestigious award recognizing mid-career women (5–15 years post-degree) making impactful contributions in HPC research, education, and practice. The winner receives a $2,000 honorarium, travel support to SC, and a recognition plaque. Nominate a leader advancing technical computing—from software and visualization to analytics and HPC systems.

Deadline: June 30, 2025 (AoE)
Winner announced: July 31, 2025

Start your nomination today: Nomination Form

Questions? Email: mtaufer@utk.edu 

Award Information

The ACM SIGHPC Emerging Woman Leader in Technical Computing (EWL/TC) is an annual award open to any woman who has engaged in HPC and technical computing research, education, and/or practiced for 5-15 years since receiving her highest degree. This international award creates a career milestone achievement, and also establishes a cohort of role models for students and professional who are just getting started in our field. Nominees who have taken time out of the workforce and who, as a result, are professionally "mid-career" but are beyond 15 years since achieving their highest degree may still be nominated. Refer to nomination instructions for more details.

In the fields of high performance (HPC) and technical computing – as elsewhere in computing – there are fellowships and awards for achievements occurring at the graduate student, early-career, and mature-career stages. But there are very few awards recognizing individuals in the middle stage of their careers. These are the years when faculty are working toward promotion and practitioners are moving through middle levels of management, a period which can be especially challenging. 

"Technical computing" includes all of the various fields that are part of what we think of as HPC – areas such as visualization, analytics, operations, scientific application software (creation and porting/tuning), libraries, and so on – as well as professionals working with everything from small, workgroup-sized systems, to leading systems on the TOP500 list.

Starting in 2022, this award is presented annually during the annual SC conference. The awardee is recognized with a $2,000 cash prize, a plaque, and travel support to SC.

For individuals with a permanent residence outside of the United States that receive a monetary award from SIGHPC, ACM will withhold 30% of the award value for US Taxes in compliance with Internal Revenue Services. Based on the individual's location they may be able to reclaim the tax withholding amount. ACM and SIGHPC will not provide assistance in reclaiming the withheld taxes. 

See how to nominate for more information.