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Ellen Voorhees receives Gerald Salton Award

Congratulations to Ellen Voorhees on receiving the Gerard Salton Award at the ACM Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR). The Gerard Salton Award is presented every three years to an individual who has made “...

2024 Award for Excellence in Research in Applied Mathematics

Congratulations to Justyna Zwolak, who has been selected by the Washington Academy of Sciences (WAS) to receive its 2024 Award for Excellence in Research in Applied Mathematics. The citation for the award reads “For outstanding contributions in the...

Elham Tabassi Selected for Women in Technology Leadership Award

Congratulations to Elham Tabassi, who won the Women in Technology Leadership Award for the Government and Defense sector. The annual WIT Leadership Awards honors and celebrates women professionals who have demonstrated success in entrepreneurial...

NIST Awarded Cyber Policy Award for CSF 2.0 Efforts

On April 24, 2024, NIST was awarded the 'Ecosystem Champion Award' at the inaugural edition of the Cyber Policy Awards in Washington, DC. This award recognizes an individual, small group, or organization whose efforts have led to broad structural and...

2024 ASA Founders Award - Julia Sharp

The American Statistical Association’s Founders Award recognizes members who have rendered distinguished service to the association and whose contributions have had a significant impact on the organization. Julia Sharp received this honor at the 2024...

Jonathon Phillips elected AAAS Fellow

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has elected Dr. P. Jonathon Phillips as an AAAS Fellow. Dr. Phillips was given this honor for his distinguished contributions to the field of computer vision and pattern recognition...

Ram Sriram receives 2023 IEEE Reliability Society Lifetime Achievement Award

Congratulations to Ram D. Sriram (SSD) who will be receiving the 2023 IEEE Reliability Society's Lifetime Achievement Award for "contributions to and leadership in standards, measurements, and techniques for developing reliable and trustworthy...

Robert Snelick wins Federal 100 Award

Congratulations to Rob Snelick, recipient of the Federal 100 Award for exemplary and impactful leadership in successfully developing national and international healthcare standards and the implementation of an end-to-end health information technology...

Sharon Laskowski wins Election Hero Award from the Center for Civic Design

Congratulations to Sharon Laskowski (IAD, guest researcher), who received an “Election Hero” award on February 7 th from the Center for Civic Design at CCD’s 10th Birthday Celebration in Washington, D.C. for her dedication to usable and accessible...

Ram Sriram named 2023 ACM Fellow

Congratulations to Ram D. Sriram (SSD) who has been named a 2023 ACM Fellow . According to ACM, “ACM is proud to include nearly 110,000 computing professionals in our ranks and ACM Fellows represent just 1% of our entire global membership. This year...

2023 - Gold Medal Award---Dylan Yaga

For improving law enforcement, DHS, and U.S. Border Patrol operations by identifying over 1,000 errors in biometric data exchange standards.

2023 - Director's Award for Excellence in Administration---Mildred Glick, Terry Sorcek, Lucy Tedesco, Misty Roosa, Melissa Banner, Kim Stavish, Brian Copello, Dawn Hurley, Veronica Kinard, Kimberly Goode

For development of the Administrative Management Portal to centralize precise training and resources for the NIST administrative management community.

French award winners Mark Lowenthal, Brian Lang, and Blaza Toman

2023 - Judson C. French Award---Mark Lowenthal, Brian Lang, Blaza Toman

For development of the first glycan Standard Reference Material for accurate quantification of N-linked glycans in monoclonal antibody therapeutics.

2023 - Bronze Medal Award---Martin Stevens, Ralph Jimenez, Charles H. Camp Jr., Thomas Gerrits

For refuting published claims about quantum-enhanced microscopy by careful measurements of molecular absorption of photon pairs.

2023 - Silver Medal Award---Monique Hunter, Scott Jackson, Jason Kralj, Stephanie Servetas, Blaza Toman

For the development of a first-of-its-kind biologically stable water quality standard that modernizes recreational water surveillance.

2023 - Bronze Medal Award---Julie Haney

For leading and developing NIST's Usable Cybersecurity Program, transforming how government agencies view the human element in cybersecurity.

2023 - Bronze Medal Award---Ann Virts, Ya-Shian Li-Baboud, David Schmitt

For developing innovative metrics, test methods, artifacts, and datasets that measure the performance and safety of exoskeleton wearable robots.

2023 - Bronze Medal Award---Michael Indovina, Robert Snelick, John Garguilo, Andrew McCaffrey, Sheryl Taylor

For the creation of innovative software to help fight communicable diseases by ensuring that clinicians have accurate vaccine recommendations.

2023 - Bronze Medal Award---John Beltz, Gary Horwarth, John Libert, Kenneth Ko, Bruce Bandini

For the successful advancement of mobile fingerprint capture technology in support of law enforcement field requirements.

2023 - Gold Medal Award---Greg Cooksey, Paul Patrone, Anthony Kearsley, Matthew DiSalvo

For the invention of serial cytometry, a revolutionary technology for cancer diagnostics and therapeutic evaluation.

2023 - Gold Medal Award---John Jones II, Karen Reczek, Allison Getz, Donna Sirk, Barbara Guttman, Marcela Najarro, Alan Zheng, Will Guthrie, John Butler

For extraordinary national leadership in improving the scientific quality of forensic science practices through standards development.

2023 - Ron Brown Excellence in Innovation Award---Greg Cooksey, Paul Patrone, Anthony Kearsley, Matthew DiSalvo

For pioneering real-time, cell-by-cell analysis for early cancer diagnosis, the evaluation of novel therapeutics, and accurate clinical decisions

2023 - Gold Medal Award---Peter Bajcsy, Carl Simon, Jr.

For developing a suite of tools used to characterize a first-of-its kind tissue-engineered product for treatment of macular degeneration.

2023 - Gold Medal Award---Timothy Blattner, Derek Juba, Damian Lauria, Benjamin Long , Michael Majurski, Diana Ortiz-Montalvo, Adele Peskin, John Henry Scott, Keana C. K. Scott, Stephan Stranick

For development and delivery of an AI-enhanced materials analysis system that enables unique U.S. capabilities in support of nuclear non-proliferation.

2023 - George A. Uriano Award---Anita Balachandra, David Gundlach, Paul Hale, Kevin Jurrens, R. Joseph Kline, Timothy McBride, Sanjay Rekhi, David Seiler, Sivaraj Shyam-Sunder, Ndubuisi George Orji

For positioning NIST and DOC to successfully implement core CHIPS for America Act programs to revitalize U.S. leadership in semiconductor manufacturing.

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