LOS ALAMITOS, Calif., 16 September 2024
IEEE Computer Society (IEEE-CS) selects Maciej Besta from ETH Zurich, Guanpeng Li from University of Iowa, and Xin Liang from University of Kentucky, as 2024 winners of the IEEE-CS Technical Community on High Performance Computing (TCHPC) Early Career Researchers Award for Excellence in High Performance Computing.
Dr. Maciej Besta leads research on irregular computations and large language models at the Scalable Parallel Computing Lab at ETH Zurich. Maciej published more than 50 top conference and journal papers, winning best paper awards and nominations at ACM/IEEE Supercomputing 2013, 2014, 2019 (for 2 different papers), 2022, and 2023 (for 2 different papers); at ACM HPDC 2015 and 2016, ACM Research Highlights 2018, and others. He won, among others, the competition for the Best Student of Poland (2012), the first Google Fellowship in Parallel Computing (2013), the ACM/IEEE-CS HPC Fellowship (2015), the IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing Early Career (2023). His doctoral dissertation received the ETH Medal for an outstanding doctoral thesis (2021), SPEC Honorable Mention (2022), and distinguished dissertation awards from IEEE TCSC (2021) and ACM SIGHPC (2022). Finally, he is supported by the Fellowship in The Explorers Club (2022).
Dr. Guanpeng Li is an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Iowa, where he has served since 2020. He earned his Bachelor’s and PhD degrees from the University of British Columbia , Canada in 2014 and 2019, respectively. Between 2019 and 2020, he was a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Li’s research mainly focuses on HPC fault tolerance and lossy compression. He, along with his students, has received best paper awards (or finalist recognition) at venues, including SC, DSN, and ISSRE, in 2024, 2022, 2021, 2020, and 2018. Additionally, his work in fault-tolerance was selected for IEEE Top Picks in Test and Reliability in 2023.
Dr. Xin Liang is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Kentucky (UK). He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of California, Riverside (UCR) in 2019. Before joining UK, he worked as a computer/data scientist at the Workflow Systems Group in Oak Ridge National Laboratory and as an assistant professor at Missouri University of Science and Technology. His research interests lie broadly in parallel and distributed systems, scientific data management, and large-scale data analytics, focusing on developing novel methods to reduce the time to obtain insights from data. He has published in major conferences and journals, such as SC, HPDC, IPDPS, ICDE, VLDB, TPDS, and TVCG, and has contributed to the design and development of multiple open-source scientific computing software, including two renowned lossy compression tools SZ and MGARD. He received a CRII Award and an EPSCoR Research Fellowship from NSF.
The IEEE Computer Society TCHPC Early Career Researchers Award for Excellence in High Performance Computing is sponsored by the IEEE-CS Technical Community on High Performance Computing (TCHPC) and its member Technical Committees:
- Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP)
- Technical Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC)
- Technical Committee on Distributed Processing (TCDP)
- Technical Committee on Cloud Computing (TCCLD)
- Task Force on Rebooting Computing (TFRC)
- Technical Committee on Computational Life Sciences (TCCLS).
The TCHPC Award recognizes up to three individuals who have made outstanding, influential, and potentially long-lasting contributions in the field of high-performance computing within five years of receiving their Ph.D. degree as of January 1 of the year of the award.
Awardees will be presented with a plaque and will be recognized by IEEE Computer Society’s TCHPC and SC24 websites, newsletters, and archives. They will receive complimentary technical program registration, hotel accommodation at SC24 as well as complimentary IEEE/IEEE CS membership for one year.
IEEE-CS will present the awards at SC24 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA during November 17–22, 2024. Full information about the conference can be found at https://sc24.supercomputing.org/.
For more details, visit the official IEEE-CS TCHPC page at http://tc.computer.org/tchpc/home-page/page-of-awards/.
For information about all IEEE-CS awards, visit http://www.computer.org/awards.