SIGHPC @ SC26

Come Visit SIGHPC at SC26!

2026 Annual SIGHPC Member Meeting 

The 2026 Annual SIGHPC Member Meeting will take place on November 17, 2026 at 12:15-1:15 CT at SC26 in room 179ab.  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, as well as FREE COFFEE!

SIGHPC Booth at SC26

Come visit the SIGHPC Executive Council and other members of SIGHPC at the SIGHPC Booth at SC26!  The booth will be located near the Central Concourse.

Recognition at SC26

The following members of our community were recognized for their outstanding achievements.

2026 ACM SIGHPC Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award
Dr. J. Gregory Pauloski
University of Chicago

Recognized for his dissertation Programming the Continuum: Towards Better Techniques for Developing Distributed Science Applications

2026 Emerging Woman Leader In Technical Computing
Prof. Tanzima Z. Islam
Texas State University, Brookhaven National Laboratory 

Olga Pearce
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 

2026 ACM SIGHPC Computational and Data Science Fellowship Winners 

• • Paulus Mekondjo Shituna (PhD, Computer Science (Linguistics)), University of Namibia

  • Kimberly Kreiss (PhD, Social Data Science), Oxford Internet Institute

  • Genevieve Payne (MS, Physics), University of Rhode Island

  • Oona Shigeno Risse-Adams (PhD, Computational Biology), Weill Cornell Medicine

  • Dariya Baizhigitova (PhD, Chemical Engineering), Stevens Institute of Technology

  • Jhonatan Cléto (PhD, Computer Science), Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)

  • Ariana Mondiri (PhD, Psychology & Neuroscience), Boston College