Awards

For accomplishments over the past year and for leadership potential in this community

For providing a wonderful role model to aspiring young robot builders and women who want to build the future using robots to solve global challenges.

Recognized as one of the nation’s premier cybersecurity experts, having helped develop the first commercially available encryption standards as well as state-of-the-art guidelines for government and industry to prevent, detect and respond to...

For significant contributions to the field of state-of-the-art atomic clocks and precision tests of fundamental physics.

For demonstrating potential for significant contributions to the field of building simulation and prospects for continued contributions.

June Lau of NIST, Yimea Zhu of Brookhaven National Lab, and Chunguang Jing, Eric Montgomery, Yubin Zhao, Wade Rush, Ao Liu, and Ilya Ponomarev of Euclid Labs are recognized for a relatively inexpensive pulsing device that converts an existing...

This honor was bestowed upon Rob for his many contributions to HL7 for over a decade and a half, particularly regarding his leadership and advancement of conformance and testing of HL7 standards – which are the most widely used healthcare standards...

For novel developments in neutron radiography and tomography.

For the pioneering development of high-quantum-efficiency photon detectors and of number-resolving photon detectors.

For contributions to the understanding, design, & control of quantum many-body atomic, molecular, & optical systems & their applications to phase transitions, entanglement generation & propagation, synthetic magnetism, & quantum memory & simulation.

For many contributions to the development of photoemission, Auger electron spectroscopy, X-ray standing wave, and soft X-ray emission spectroscopy and outstanding leadership to AVS.

IOP trusted reviewer status acknowledges that you have demonstrated a high level of peer review competence, with the ability to critique scientific literature to an excellent standard.

The team is being recognized “for the development of an optical atomic clock architecture that leverages microfabricated photonic components, leading to a vast reduction in size, weight, and power for next generation applications in timing...

This award is presented by the Art, Archaeology and Conservation Science Division Executive Committee of the American Ceramic Society to an individual(s), who has made outstanding contributions to materials science applied to art, archaeology...

For elucidating the physics of probe-sample interactions in scanning electron and atomic force microscopes for enabling accurate metrology of nanostructures to meet nanoelectronics manufacturing demands.

For outstanding contributions and leadership in computer vision, fingerprint image analysis, facial recognition algorithms, artificial intelligence, and machine learning.

For her national and international leadership in IT research and development for cybersecurity, privacy, health care testing infrastructure, standards, and conformance testing.

For excellence in applied mathematics, leading to new tools for modeling and simulation which have transformed research into nanoscale magnetic films, structures and devices.

For their work in the NIST Face Recognition Vendor Test (FRVT) program, the largest and most extensive face recognition algorithm test of its kind.

John H. Lehman is the 2020 recipient in recognition of the development of innovative tools for laser power and energy measurements spanning ultraviolet to THz wavelengths and from sub-microWatt to multi-kiloWatt power levels.

For the paper Computation in networks of passively mobile finite-state sensors - Distributed Computing 18(4): 235-253 (2006).

Edward Vicenzi is a NIST associate and research scientist at the Smithsonian Institution’s Museum Conservation Institute (MCI). His work involves using microbeam techniques to study of museum specimens and related materials to understand their...

The ONR YIP was awarded to Adam Kaufman to fund research (540k over three years) in creating entangled systems of atoms for quantum metrology and quantum information.

For insightful neutron scattering studies of gas adsorption in metal organic frameworks and other microporous materials.

For outstanding research on the chemistry and physics of complex fluids and biomembranes, and exceptional service to the neutron community, including major contributions to neutron scattering data acquisition and analysis.