TCHPC Awards

 

IEEE CS TCHPC Early Career Researchers Award for Excellence in High Performance Computing – 2024

The IEEE Computer Society TCHPC Early Career Researchers Award for Excellence in High Performance Computing recognizes up to 3 individuals who have made outstanding, influential, and potentially long-lasting contributions in the field of high-performance computing within 5 years of receiving their PhD degree as of January 01 of the year of the award. It is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Community on High Performance Computing (TCHPC) and its member Technical Committees:

  • Technical Committee on Parallel Process (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)

Nominations

A candidate must be nominated by member(s) of the community. An individual may nominate at most one candidate for this award. The nomination application must be submitted to https://ssl.linklings.net/applications/ieee-cs-tchpc-early-career-award/. The nomination form will request the following details:

  1. Name, email, and institution of the person making the nomination. Please note that self-nominations are not permitted.
  2. Name, email, and institution of the candidate for whom the award is recommended.
  3. A nomination statement not to exceed 500 words describing why the nominee is highly deserving of the award. Note that since the award is for outstanding contributions in HPC, the statement and supporting letters should address what the contributions are and why they are outstanding and significant. 
  4. Name and emails of 2 individuals who have agreed to provide letters supporting the nomination.
  5. Two letters of support from persons other than the nominator.
  6. CV of the nominee.

Important Dates

Nomination Deadline:       July 15 July 24, 2024 
Notification:                      August 15, 2024

Award Selection Committee:

  • Sunita Chandrasekaran, University of Delaware, US
  • Johannes Doerfert, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, US
  • Wenqian Dong, Florida International University, US
  • Alba Cristina Magalhaes Alves De Melo, University of Brasilia, Brazil
  • Verónica G. Melesse Vergara, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US (Chair)
Note that members of the selection committee cannot be nominators or provide support letters.

Award & Presentation Note

Awardees will be presented a plaque and provided with complimentary IEEE and IEEE CS membership for one year. They will also be recognized by IEEE Computer Society and TCHPC websites, newsletters, and archives. The awards will be presented at the SC24 conference that will be held in Atlanta, Georgia USA during November 17–22, 2024. Details of the conference can be found at http://sc24.supercomputing.org/.

For more information, please send an email to tchpc-awards@computer.org.

 

Applications for the Inaugural TCHPC/TCPP HPC Student Cohort

We welcome applications to the HPC Student Cohort (HPCSC) sponsored by TCHPC and TCPP. HPCSC will provide 12-16 travel awards to attend SC 2024 and IPDPS 2025. By funding multiple conferences, HPCSC aims to provide students with the opportunity for an extended engagement with the HPC community and enable frequent and continued interactions among members of the cohort as well as with leading members of the HPC community, leading to more effective networking. HPCSC will be composed of students from diverse backgrounds, including undergraduates, masters, early-stage, and late-stage doctoral students.

Cohort members should commit to attending both conferences and are expected to attend events organized by the HPCSC committee at the conferences, such as mentoring in research practices, career panels, and Q&A sessions between cohort members. Further, members of the cohort will be assigned to groups with the goal of maximizing diversity in each group. Before each conference, each group will work together to:  

  1. Submit a pre-conference self-reflection document on what they expect to gain from the conference, including networking within the cohort.
  2. Submit a post-conference report on their shared experience at the conference, including what they learned at the conference and from the members of the cohort and plans for continued interactions with members of the cohort.

Benefits to students participating in the cohort

Being in the cohort will provide undergraduate and early career students access to networking with senior students beyond their research circles or universities and help them gain valuable career advice. This is particularly beneficial for students from smaller schools or underrepresented or minority communities who may not have easy access to such advice. The cohort also allows students to form relationships with community members, understand how to be part of the community, and take on appropriate roles.

Being in the cohort will train senior Ph.D. students, enabling them to engage in community outreach activities. While a Ph.D. trains students in research, knowing how to effectively engage in outreach is also critical for their career development specifically and for the good of the research community more generally. Further, it will expose the students to research and education communities beyond their own and provide opportunities for recruiting postdocs or graduate students when they start their research groups. Our goal is to develop meaningful interactions built through the cohort that will translate into longer-term collaborations that may not have been otherwise possible.

Application Process (Link to the Google form: https://forms.gle/uY8ekAzCQ7apgj8p6).

  1. A two-page document listing future career goals, how you think being in the cohort can help you, and how you can help other members of the cohort
  2. CV
  3. Letter from advisor. The letter from the advisor should clearly state that the student will attend both conferences as well as any additional funding sources that the student might get/apply to besides HPCSC.
  4. Any available funding sources.

 

  • Application deadline: August 26 September 9, 2024 (AOE)
  • Award notification: September 27, 2024 (AOE)
  • Award Amount: $2500 for both conferences combined.

For questions/queries, send an email to hpcstudentcohort@gmail.com