[hpc-announce] Nominations due April 12 for IEEE TCPP Outstanding Service and Contributions Award

[Devine, Karen D]

*** 2021 IEEE TCPP Outstanding Service and Contributions Award ***

This award recognizes an individual (or a group of individuals) who has made major professional service contributions to the parallel, distributed and high-performance computing community.  Contributions include (but are not limited to) volunteering in professional  meetings (TCPP-sponsored as well as others), serving on editorial boards, organizing major events, developing community resources, and leading international outreach. Contributions are not limited to the 2020 calendar year.

Nomination rules:
1. A candidate may be nominated by members of the community.
2. Self-nominations are not eligible.
3. An individual may nominate at most one candidate for this award.

Nomination data: The nomination should include
1. Name/email of person making the nomination
2. Name/email of candidate for whom the award is recommended
3. A statement by the nominator (maximum of 500 words) describing why the nominee is highly deserving of the award and a brief summary of the service contributions
4. CV of the nominee
5. Up to three support letters from persons other than the nominator; these should be collected by the nominator and included in the nomination

Nomination deadline is April 12, 2021. Please email your nominations to Karen Devine at kddevin at sandia.gov.

Selection committee:  Sanjukta Bhowmick (U. North Texas); Florina Ciorba (U. Basel); Karen Devine (Sandia National Laboratories, chair); Xiaoye Sherry Li (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory); Kengo Nakajima (U. Tokyo), Erik Saule (U. North Carolina-Charlotte),  Martin Schulz (TU-Munich). 

Past recipients include: Srinivas Aluru, David Bader, Susamma Barua, Azzedine Boukerche, Franck Cappello, Umit V. Catalyurek, Jean-Luc Gaudiot, Allan Gottlieb, Manish Parashar, William S. Pitts, Sushil Prasad, Viktor Prasanna, Sanjay Ranka, Yves Robert, Arnold  Rosenberg, Sartaj Sahni, Sally J. Westrom, and Albert Zomaya.