Travel Grant Recipients
We are always excited to meet each new group of travel grant recipients during SC. Their energy, enthusiasm, and talent are inspiring. If you are a student we hope you consider applying.
2022 Recipients
Silba Dowell, University of Wyoming, Laramie (USA)
Chuanqiu He, Louisiana State University (USA)
Nikolaj Hinnerskov, Københavns Universitet (Denmark)
Nathan Jones, Clemson University (USA)
Natasha Kuk, Queens University (Canada)
Yuke Li, University of California, Merced (USA)
Pablo Viscaino, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (Spain)
2021 Recipients
In Person Grants:
Charles Daniel, (PhD student), University of South Carolina, USA
Ke Fan, (PhD student), University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
Alex Kiefer, (Undergraduate + Masters student) Indiana University, USA
Thomas Randall, (PhD student), Clemson University, USA
Tamima Rashid, (Masters student) Texas State University, USA
Virtual Grants:
Sunil Kumar, (PhD student), IIIT-Delphi, India
Swikriti Neupane, (Undergraduate student), HPCNepal, Nepal
2019 Recipients
Philip Conrad (PhD student), University of South Carolina, USA
Kathryn Leung (PhD student), Princeton University, USA
Mohammad Arshul Mansoori (Undergraduate student), Ambedkar Institute of Advanced Communication Technologies and Research, India
Guillem Ramirez-Gargallo (Undergraduate student), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
2018 Recipients
Ari Raush (PhD student), University of Muenster, Germany
Fabio Banchelli (Master's student), Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain
Shu-Mei Tseng (Master's student), University of California Irvine, USA
Benedikt Oehlrich (Undergraduate student), Friedrich-Alexander-University, Germany
Charu Kalra (PhD student), Northeastern University, USA
2017 Recipients
Xavier Yepes Arbos (Master’s student) - Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Muhammed Ibrahim Awan (Undergraduate student) - Rutgers University, USA
Anna Kormu (Undergraduate student) - University of Helsinki, Finland
Tiffany Li (Undergraduate student) - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Yasodhadevi Suriyakumar (PhD student) - Portland State University, USA
Amalee Wilson (PhD student) - The University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
Mengyuan Zhu (Master’s student) - Georgia State University, USA
2016 Recipients
Giulio Stromondo (PhD candidate) - University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Yuilana Zamora (Master's student) - Georgia Tech, USA (ACM-W awardee)
Sameera Horawalavithana (PhD candidate) - University of South Florida, USA
Tiffany Connors (Undergraduate student) - University of Bergen, Norway
Matthew Bae (Undergraduate student) - Harvey Mudd College, USA
Sangeetha Banavathi Srinivasa (Master's student) - Virginia Tech, USA
Chirag Jain (PhD candidate) - Georgia Tech, USA
2015 Recipients
Glenna Dunn (PhD candidate) - Vanderbilt University, USA
Shaomeng (Samuel) Li (PhD candidate) - University of Oregon, USA
Jacob Pollack (Undergraduate student) - The University of Tennessee, Knoxville*, USA
Jonah Miller (PhD candidate) - University of Guelph*, Canada
William Yang (Undergraduate student) - University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA
Dino Raffael Magri (Master’s student) - University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Gavin Baker(Master’s student) - California Polytechnic State University, USA
Efthalia Karydi (PhD candidate) - University of Macedonia, Greece
Evan Schneider (PhD candidate) - University of Arizona, USA
Natasha Pavlovikj (PhD candidate) - University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
* Sponsored by Micron Technology. SIGHPC wishes to acknowledge the $2000 donation from Micron Technology that allowed the support of additional travel scholarships.
2014 Recipients
Nam Pho (Master's student) - Harvard Medical School, USA
Damilola Shonaike (Undergraduate student) - University of Texas at Austin, USA
Matthias Matthias (Master's student) - Ludwig Maximilians University, Germany
Bo (Ivy) Peng (PhD candidate) - KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden
Rebecca Tung (PhD candidate) - Curtin University in Perth, Australia
2013 Recipients
Milind Chabbi (PhD candidate) - Rice University, USA
Stephanie Labasan (PhD candidate) - University of Oregon, USA
Brian McClure (Undergraduate student) - University of South Carolina Beaufort, USA