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Associate Director for Laboratory Programs

Awards

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2019 Distinguished Associate Award - Theodore Vorburger

For the development of rigorous uncertainty methods and documentary standards for firearm forensics.

2019 Distinguished Associate Award - Samuel Brewer

For creating and networking the world's best optical atomic clocks for a 100-fold improvement in precision timekeeping over state of the art.

2019 Distinguished Associate Award - Robert Fasano

For creating and networking the world's best optical atomic clocks for a 100-fold improvement in precision timekeeping over state of the art.

2019 Distinguished Associate Award - Tara Fortier

For creating and networking the world's best optical atomic clocks for a 100-fold improvement in precision timekeeping over state of the art.

2020 ASTM James A. Thomas President’s Leadership Award - Bala Muralikrishnan

For significant contributions, successful leadership of a major new activity and unusually productive service ASTM committee work.

Craig Nelson Portrait for W. G. Cady Award

2020 W. G. Cady Award - Craig Nelson

For leadership in the design and development of state-of-the-art low noise oscillators and phase noise measurement systems. Learn More

Charles Romine Receives 2019 Presidential Rank Award

Charles Romine is recognized for his leadership in transforming the NIST Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) into the nation’s leading institution conducting research in information technology metrology, including a broad range of areas such as...

Donna Dodson Receives 2019 Presidential Rank Award

Donna Dodson is recognized for her technical acumen, extraordinary leadership, and worldwide impact in the area of cybersecurity. She serves as both Director of the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence and Associate Director of the NIST...

Ronald Boisvert Selected as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Ronald Boisvert, Chief of ITL’s Applied and Computational Mathematics Division (ACMD), has been selected as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Becoming an ACM Fellow is no small feat, as the award and fellowship recognize...

2019 - Silver Medal Award---Tommy Armstrong, John R. Bollinger, Daniel Gilmore, Steven Smith, Brian Dougherty, Thomas M. Sherman, Timothy Hoseth

For sustained superior group performance pursuing procurement and construction of a 15-acre, 5-megawatt, solar array system for the NIST Gaithersburg campus.

2019 - Silver Medal Award---Denis Bergeron, Jerome LaRosa, Hans Pieter Mumm, Svetlana Nour, Mark A. Tyra

For advancing nuclear reactor monitoring and nuclear nonproliferation by developing a novel, first-of-a-kind detector for measuring antineutrinos.

2019 - Gold Medal Award---Nolan Brandenburg, Mark Luce, Jay Hendricks, Jacob Ricker

For exceptional and innovative encasement design, enabling preservation of multiple documents, from the US Bill of Rights to the Emancipation Proclamation.

Luce, Barnard Feeney, Dima, Hedberg, Helu, Weiss

2019 - Gold Medal Award---Mark Luce, Allison Barnard Feeney, Thomas D. Hedberg, Jr., Moneer Helu, Brian A. Weiss, Alden Dima

For developing a unique facility that accelerates the adoption of critical digital technologies and streams data to enable manufacturing innovation.

2019 - Gold Medal Award---Adam Jacoff, Kenneth Kimble, Kamel Saidi, Ann Marie Virts

For outstanding development and dissemination of standard test methods used worldwide to evaluate and improve bomb-disposal robots and operators.

Chakalis, Hoehler, Bundy, Chernovsky, Bryant, Choe, Story, DeLauter

2019 - Gold Medal Award---Rodney Bryant, Matthew Bundy, Anthony Chakalis, Artur Chernovsky, Lisa Choe, Laurean DeLauter, Matthew Hoehler, Brian Story

For developing advanced measurement capabilities at the National Fire Research Laboratory, a unique national facility for studying buildings and structures exposed to fire.

2019 - Gold Medal Award---Ramaswamy Chandramouli

For developing the security recommendations for operating system virtualizations used in cloud technologies around the world.

2019 - Gold Medal Award---Clare M. Allocca, Sheng Lin-Gibson

For extraordinary national and international leadership in promoting biotechnology innovation, manufacturing and trade through standards development.

2019 - Gold Medal Award---Yuxue Liang, Pedatsur Neta, Stephen Stein, Xiaoyu Yang

For revolutionizing the breadth, scope and responsiveness of the NIST Tandem Mass Spectral Library for chemical identification in complex mixtures.

Back Row: Sherman, Beloy, Swann, Hume, Newbury, Ludlow Front Row: Leibrandt, Sinclair

2019 - Gold Medal Award---Kyle Beloy, David Hume, David Leibrandt, Andrew Ludlow, Nathan Newbury, Jeffrey Sherman, Laura Sinclair, William Swann, Jun Ye

For creating and networking the world's best optical atomic clocks for a 100-fold improvement in precision timekeeping over the state of the art.

Associate Director for Laboratory Programs

Awards

2019 Distinguished Associate Award - Theodore Vorburger

2019 Distinguished Associate Award - Samuel Brewer

2019 Distinguished Associate Award - Robert Fasano

2019 Distinguished Associate Award - Tara Fortier

2020 ASTM James A. Thomas President’s Leadership Award - Bala Muralikrishnan

2020 W. G. Cady Award - Craig Nelson

Charles Romine Receives 2019 Presidential Rank Award

Donna Dodson Receives 2019 Presidential Rank Award

Ronald Boisvert Selected as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

2019 - Silver Medal Award---Tommy Armstrong, John R. Bollinger, Daniel Gilmore, Steven Smith, Brian Dougherty, Thomas M. Sherman, Timothy Hoseth

2019 - Silver Medal Award---Denis Bergeron, Jerome LaRosa, Hans Pieter Mumm, Svetlana Nour, Mark A. Tyra

2019 - Gold Medal Award---Nolan Brandenburg, Mark Luce, Jay Hendricks, Jacob Ricker

2019 - Gold Medal Award---Mark Luce, Allison Barnard Feeney, Thomas D. Hedberg, Jr., Moneer Helu, Brian A. Weiss, Alden Dima

2019 - Gold Medal Award---Adam Jacoff, Kenneth Kimble, Kamel Saidi, Ann Marie Virts

2019 - Gold Medal Award---Rodney Bryant, Matthew Bundy, Anthony Chakalis, Artur Chernovsky, Lisa Choe, Laurean DeLauter, Matthew Hoehler, Brian Story

2019 - Gold Medal Award---Ramaswamy Chandramouli

2019 - Gold Medal Award---Clare M. Allocca, Sheng Lin-Gibson

2019 - Gold Medal Award---Yuxue Liang, Pedatsur Neta, Stephen Stein, Xiaoyu Yang

2019 - Gold Medal Award---Kyle Beloy, David Hume, David Leibrandt, Andrew Ludlow, Nathan Newbury, Jeffrey Sherman, Laura Sinclair, William Swann, Jun Ye

2019 - Arthur S. Flemming Award---R. Joseph Kline

2019 - Ron Brown Excellence in Innovation Award---Adam Jacoff, Kenny Kimble, Kamel Saidi, Ann Marie Virts

2019 - Presidential Rank Award---Donna Dodson

2019 - Presidential Rank Award---James Olthoff

2019 - Presidential Rank Award---Charles Romine

2019 - Presidential Rank Award---Ian Spielman

Advanced communications
-Open Radio Access Network (Open-RAN)
-Quantum communications
-Spectrum sharing
-Wireless (RF)
Artificial intelligence
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-Autonomous systems
--Automated vehicles
--Autonomous laboratories
-Applied AI
-Fundamental AI
-Hardware for AI
-Machine learning
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Bioscience
-Bioeconomy
--Biological data
-Bioimaging
-Bioinformatics
-Biomanufacturing
-Biomaterials
-Biometrology
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--Biosurveillance
--Genomic cybersecurity
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-Cell measurements
-Engineering / synthetic biology
--Biofabrication
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--Genome engineering
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-Gene delivery systems
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Buildings and Construction
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-Building control systems
-Building damage and repair
-Building economics
-Building materials
-Energy efficiency
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-Indoor air quality
-Structural engineering
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Chemistry
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-Molecular characterization
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-Thermochemical properties
Electronics
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-Flexible electronics
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-Optoelectronics
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Energy
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Environment
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Fire
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-Fire dynamics and science
-Fire fighting
-Fire modeling
-Fire risk reduction
-Materials flammability
-Structural fire resistance
-Wildland urban interface fire
Forensic Science
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Health
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Information technology
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-Cloud computing and virtualization
-Complex systems
-Computational science
-Conformance testing
-Cyber-physical systems
--Smart cities
-Cybersecurity and privacy
--Cryptography
--Cybersecurity education and workforce development
--Cybersecurity measurement
--Identity and access management
--Privacy engineering
--Risk management
--Securing emerging technologies
--Trustworthy networks
--Trustworthy platforms
-Data and informatics
--Human language technology
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-Digital twins
-Federal information processing standards (FIPS)
-Health IT
-Internet of Things (IoT)
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Infrastructure
Manufacturing
-Additive manufacturing
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-Monitoring, diagnostics and prognostics
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-Robotics
--Agility and adaptability
--Collaborative robots
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--Mobility and industrial autonomous vehicles
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--Sensing and perception
-Supply chain
-Sustainable manufacturing
-Systems engineering
-Systems integration
-Technology commercialization
Materials
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--Composition and structure
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-Modeling and computational material science
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Mathematics and statistics
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Metrology
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Nanotechnology
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Neutron research
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Public safety
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-Response robots
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