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Information Technology Laboratory

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2020 - Colleagues' Choice Award---Jim Foti

For expanding the awareness and reach of ITL's research and publications through modernized external communications.

2020 - Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medal---Donna F. Dodson

Recognized as one of the nation’s premier cybersecurity expert

Rising Star: Katie Boeckl

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

Donna Dodson Receives Service to America Medal

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...

Robert Snelick Named 2020 HL7 Fellow

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...

Elham Tabassi Awarded 2020 Excellence in Research in Computer Science Award

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

Lisa Carnahan Awarded 2020 Leadership in IT Standards for Industry Award

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

Michael Donahue Awarded 2020 Excellence in Research in Applied Mathematics Award

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

Patrick Grother, Mei Ngan, and Kayee Hanaoka Win FedID Award

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

Rene Peralta Wins Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing

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

2020 Women in Biometrics Award winner: Mei Ngan

The incredible advancements made by the dedicated professionals leading this field are helping keep our cities and citizens, our companies and employees and our schools and children safe. Since 2015, the Women in Biometrics Awards have recognized...

Naomi Lefkovitz wins 2020 IAPP Vanguard Award

For exceptional leadership, knowledge and creativity in the field of privacy and data protection, whether through spearheading projects or programs that positively impact the profession or through achievements over the course of an entire tenure or...

Naomi Lefkovitz Wins Federal 100 Award

Congratulations to Naomi Lefkovitz who received the 2020 Federal 100 award.

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 - Bronze Medal Award---Raied Caromi, Tim Hall, Thao Nguyen, Anirudha Sahoo, Michael Souryal

For the standardization of Citizens Broadband Radio Service in support of more efficient spectrum sharing between commercial and federal users.

Montgomery, Borchert, Rose, McBride, Sriram

2019 - Bronze Medal Award---Oliver Borchert, William Haag Jr., Tim McBride, Douglas Montgomery, Scott Rose, Murugiah Souppaya, Kotikalapudi Sriram

For leadership in public/private collaborations that have advanced the security of national and global network infrastructures.

2019 - Bronze Medal Award---John Elliott, Elijah Petersen, Blaza Toman

For development and implementation of a measurement assurance strategy to improve comparability and reliability of cell-based assays.

2019 - Bronze Medal Award---Paul Franchois, James Graham III, Esther Katzman, Nicholas Kulick, John Venable, Ann Leith, Andrew Mundy, Ann Rickerds

For enhancing the security of NIST public websites, expeditiously meeting federal requirements and exceeding stakeholder expectations.

2019 - Edward Uhler Condon Award---Peter Mell, Dylan Yaga

For excellence in exposition that effectively demystifies blockchain technologies and provides authoritative guidance on its use.

2019 - Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers---Stephen P. Jordan

For contributions to computing science, including insight into exploiting quantum systems for computation and laying the groundwork for answers to scientific questions about the computational power of the universe.

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---Ramaswamy Chandramouli

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

2019 - Presidential Rank Award---Donna Dodson

For her technical acumen, leadership, and worldwide impact in the area of cybersecurity, including its applications in artificial intelligence and cryptography.

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Advanced communications
-Open Radio Access Network (Open-RAN)
-Quantum communications
-Spectrum sharing
-Wireless (RF)
Artificial intelligence
-AI measurement and evaluation
-Autonomous systems
--Automated vehicles
--Autonomous laboratories
-Applied AI
-Fundamental AI
-Hardware for AI
-Machine learning
-Trustworthy and responsible AI
Bioscience
-Bioeconomy
--Biological data
-Bioimaging
-Bioinformatics
-Biomanufacturing
-Biomaterials
-Biometrology
-Biosecurity
--Biosurveillance
--Genomic cybersecurity
--Nucleic acid sequence screening
-Cell measurements
-Engineering / synthetic biology
--Biofabrication
--Cell-free systems
--Genome engineering
--Protein engineering
-Gene delivery systems
-Genome editing
-Genomics
-Glycomics
-Metabolomics
-Microbial measurements
-Proteomics
Buildings and Construction
-Building codes and standards
-Building control systems
-Building damage and repair
-Building economics
-Building materials
-Energy efficiency
-Heating, ventilation and air conditioning equipment
-Indoor air quality
-Structural engineering
-Thermal comfort
Chemistry
-Analytical chemistry
-Chemical engineering and processing
-Chemical thermodynamics and chemical properties
-Molecular characterization
-Theoretical chemistry and modeling
-Thermochemical properties
Electronics
-Electromagnetics
-Flexible electronics
-Magnetoelectronics
-Optoelectronics
-Organic electronics
-Semiconductors
-Sensors
-Superconducting electronics
Energy
-Alternative energy
-Conventional energy
-Electric power / smart grid
-Fuels
Environment
-Air / water / soil quality
-Climate Measurements
-Environmental health
-Greenhouse gas measurements
-Marine science
-Sustainability
Fire
-Fire detection
-Fire dynamics and science
-Fire fighting
-Fire modeling
-Fire risk reduction
-Materials flammability
-Structural fire resistance
-Wildland urban interface fire
Forensic Science
-Digital evidence
-Drugs and toxicology
-Firearms and toolmarks
-Forensic biometrics
-Forensic genetics
-Trace evidence
Health
-Biopharmaceuticals
-Cell and gene therapy
-Clinical diagnostics
--Cancer
--Medical imaging
-Food and nutrition
-Human microbiome
-Precision medicine
-Regenerative medicine and advanced therapy
--Flow cytometry
Information technology
-Biometrics
-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
--Information retrieval
--Natural language processing
-Digital twins
-Federal information processing standards (FIPS)
-Health IT
-Internet of Things (IoT)
-Interoperability testing
-Location based services
-Mobile
-Networking
--Mobile and wireless networking
--Network management and monitoring
--Network modeling and analysis
--Network security and robustness
--Network test and measurement
--Next generation networks
--Protocol design and standardization
--Software defined and virtual networks
-Software research
--Software testing
-Usability and human factors
--Accessibility
-Video analytics
-Virtual / augmented reality
-Visualization research
-Voting systems
Infrastructure
Manufacturing
-Additive manufacturing
-Factory communications
-Factory operations planning and control
-Interoperability in manufacturing
-Machining
-Manufacturing economics
-Manufacturing quality assurance
-Manufacturing systems design and analysis
-Monitoring, diagnostics and prognostics
-Process improvement
-Process measurement and control
-Product data
-Robotics
--Agility and adaptability
--Collaborative robots
--Dexterous grasping
--Manipulation
--Mobility and industrial autonomous vehicles
--Navigation / actuation / control
--Sensing and perception
-Supply chain
-Sustainable manufacturing
-Systems engineering
-Systems integration
-Technology commercialization
Materials
-Ceramics
-Composites
-Concrete / cement
-Materials characterization
--Composition and structure
--Mechanical properties
--Thermal properties
-Metals
-Modeling and computational material science
-Polymers
-Superconductors
Mathematics and statistics
-Experiment design
-Image and signal processing
-Modeling and simulation research
-Numerical methods and software
-Statistical analysis
-Uncertainty quantification
Metrology
-Amount of substance
-Dimensional metrology
-Electrical / electromagnetic metrology
-Flow metrology and rheology
-Force metrology
-Humidity metrology
-Ionizing radiation metrology
-Mass metrology
-Metric
-Optical / photometry / laser metrology
-Pressure and vacuum metrology
-Thermometry metrology
-Time and frequency metrology
-Weights and measures
Nanotechnology
-Nanobiotechnology
-Nanochemistry
-Nanoelectronics
-Nanofabrication / manufacturing
--Lithography
--Self-assembly
-Nanofluidics
-Nanomagnetics
-Nanomaterials
-Nanomechanics
-Nanometrology
-Nanophotonics
-Nanophysics
-Nanoplasmonics
Neutron research
Performance excellence
-Assessment tools and services
-Baldrige award
-Baldrige examiners
-Baldrige Framework and Criteria
-Best practices
-Leadership development
Physics
-Atomic / molecular / quantum
-Biological physics
-Condensed matter
-Electron physics
-Magnetics
-Nuclear physics
-Optical physics and communications
-Quantum information science
-Radiation
-Spectroscopy
-Thermodynamics
-Time and frequency
Public safety
-Chemical / Biological / Radiological / Nuclear / Explosives (CBRNE)
-First responder preparedness
-Law enforcement
-Public safety communications research
-Response robots
Resilience
-Community resilience
--Recovery
--Resilience metrics
-Disaster and failure studies
-Earthquake risk reduction
-Resilience economics
-Resilient materials
-Windstorm impact reduction
Standards
-Accreditation
-Calibration services
-Conformity assessment
-Documentary standards
-Frameworks
-Quality assurance
-Reference data
-Reference instruments
-Reference materials
-Standards education
Technology transfer
Transportation
-Aerospace
-Automotive