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Information Technology Laboratory

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2023 - Silver Medal Award---Kristen Greene, Shanée Dawkins, Yee-Yin Choong, Mary Theofanos, Scott Ledgerwood, Kerrianne Buchanan, Susanne Furman, Kevin Mangold, Adam Pintar

For giving a vital voice to U.S. first responders' communication technology needs in law enforcement, firefighting, and emergency services.

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 - 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

Time Magazine cover of Top 100 AI Influencers

Time Magazine Recognizes NIST ITL Associate Director of Emerging Technologies, Elham Tabassi, as one of the 100 most influential people in AI

On September 7, 2023, TIME magazine included Tabassi, Associate Director of Emerging Technologies in NIST’s Information Technology Laboratory, on its list of the 100 most influential people in AI. She is cited as among the top leaders, innovators...

2022 Ron Brown Excellence Award Ellen Voorhees

Ellen Voorhees Receives Honorary Doctor of Science Degree from the University of Glasgow

Congratulations to Ellen Voorhees (IAD) for receiving an honorary Doctor of Science degree from the University of Glasgow in recognition of her achievements in the evaluation of information retrieval, question answering, and other language...

Rodney Petersen Receives the National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity 2023 Service Recognition Award

Congratulations to Rodney Petersen for receiving the 2023 Service Recognition Award in recognition for his outstanding cybersecurity contribution to the community and the Nation from the National Centers of Academic Excellence (CAE) in Cybersecurity...

Karen Wetzel Receives the National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity 2023 Service Recognition Award

Congratulations to Karen Wetzel for receiving the 2023 Service Recognition Award in recognition for her outstanding cybersecurity contribution to the community and the Nation from the National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity. Karen...

Ram D. Sriram Receives Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineering Honorary Member Award

Congratulations to Ram D. Sriram (SSD) for receiving an honorary member award from the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineering (IISE) in New Orleans at the IISE Annual Symposium. According to IISE, this is the highest honor IISE may grant an...

Angela Robinson Receives 2023 Women in Technology Rising Star Award

Congratulations to Angela Robinson (CSD) for receiving the 2023 Women in Technology Rising Star Award on May 18th. This category honors a woman in the beginning stages of her career who has demonstrated exemplary leadership traits and mentorship.

Jeffrey M. Voas receives the Distinguished Career Award in Computer Science from Ram Sriram

Jeff Voas Wins 2023 Distinguished Career Award in Computer Science

Congratulations to Jeff Voas (CSD) for winning the 2023 Distinguished Career Award in Computer Science for foundational contributions in software fault injection, testability, cloud computing, vetting mobile apps, internet of things, digital twins...

Hossam Tamri Receives AIRA Recognition Award

Congratulations to Hossam Tamri (SSD) for being selected and honored with a Recognition Award for his work on qDAR at the American Immunization Registry Association (AIRA) national meetings held May 2-4, 2023 in San Diego, California. qDAR (Quality...

Raghu Kacker (ACMD) and D. Richard Kuhn (CSD) awarded the ICST Most Influential Paper Award (MIP)

Congratulations to Raghu Kacker (ACMD) and D. Richard Kuhn (CSD) for recently winning the Most Influential Paper Award (MIP) award for a paper they presented 10 years ago at the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and...

Irena Bojanova honored with IEEE Computer Society Golden Core Member Award

Irena Bojanova has been presented with the IEEE Computer Society Golden Core Member pin and plaque as one of the distinguished core of dedicated volunteers whose leadership and service have made the IEEE CS the world's preeminent association of...

Ram Sriram Becomes a Fellow of The Institution of Engineering and Technology

Congratulations to Ram D. Sriram for becoming a Fellow of The Institution of Engineering and Technology. According to IET, the fellowship is given to "those respected professionals at the forefront of engineering, technology, or cognate disciplines...

2022 - Gold Medal Award---Kristen Greene, Shanee Dawkins, Jody Jacobs, Mary Theofanos, Jennifer Kostick

For creating the Phish Scale, a revolutionary tool to rate socially engineered email attacks, which can strengthen an organization’s security posture.

2022 - Bronze Medal Award---Avi Gopstein, Cuong Nguyen, Nelson Hastings, David Wollman

For exemplary leadership and technical contributions in modernizing NIST’s strategic vision for power systems communication and information exchange.

Huong Giang T. Nguyen, Laura Espinal, Blaza Toman Bronze award

2022 - Bronze Medal Award---Huong Giang T. Nguyen, Laura Espinal, Blaza Toman

For the determination of high-pressure reference isotherms of nanoscale porous adsorbents.

2022 - Distinguished Career Award---P. Jonathon Phillips

For a career of sustained excellence in advancing measurement science for face recognition and biometrics.

2022 - Gold Medal Award---Michaela Iorga, David Waltermire, Dmitry Cousin, Alexander Stein, Stephen Banghart, Nikita Wootten, Wendell Piez

For enabling faster, more accurate, and lower-cost system implementations through automated assessment of security control effectiveness.

2022 - Silver Medal Award---Jonathan Weigand, Sorin Marcu, Fahim Sadek, Adam Pintar, Long Phan

For innovative research to measure and quantify effects of the alkali-silica reaction on the safety of nuclear power plants for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

2022 - Silver Medal Award---Michael Bartock, Jonathan Hardis, Ya-Shian Li-Baboud, James McCarthy, Suzanne Lightman, Karen K. Reczek, Jeffrey Sherman, Roger Brown, Michael Lombardi, Judah Levine

For strengthening the resilience of position, navigation, and timing infrastructure and services on which global commerce and national security rely.

2022 - Gold Medal Award---Sumona Sarkar, Sheng Lin-Gibson, Laura Pierce, Steven Lund, David Newton

For leading the development of cell characterization standards and tools to improve manufacturing and quality assurance of life-saving therapies.

NIST's Information Technology Image Group Were Recognized with the Service and Leadership Award at the 2022 Federal Identity Forum

The NIST Image Group is being nominated for the Service and Leadership team award for their substantive guidance and leadership to the federal identity community. Many of the group’s subject matter experts (SME’s) have been with the team for 15 years...

Kamran Sayrafian Named Fellow of the Washington Academy of Sciences

Dr. Kamran Sayrafian was chosen as a Fellow in recognition of outstanding contributions to mathematical and computational modeling of Body Area Networks. Dr. Kamran Sayrafian is a pioneer in the field of Body Area Networks (BAN), a revolutionary...

Raghu Kacker Named Fellow of the Washington Academy of Sciences

Dr. Raghu Kacker was chosen as a Fellow in recognition of outstanding contributions in enabling the field of combinatorial testing to become a mainstream tool in measurement science and software engineering. In 1997, the Mars Pathfinder began...

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