Awards

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Apostol Vassilev poses outdoors for a head shot on the Gaithersburg campus.

Apostol Vassilev selected as one of Automotive IQ's Top 20 Voices in Automotive Cybersecurity 2026

Apostol was recognized for driving the development and adoption of standards in AI and cybersecurity, contributing to national and international standards initiatives.

IEEE Reliability Society selects Jeff Voas for Richard Kowalski Outstanding Service Award

Congratulations to Jeff Voas, recipient of the 2025 IEEE Reliability Society Richard Kowalski Outstanding Service Award.

Jeff Voas receives IEEE Reliability Society Lifetime Achievement Award

Congratulations to Jeff Voas, recipient of the 2025 IEEE Reliability Society Lifetime Achievement Award.

D. Richard Kuhn elected AAAS Fellow

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has elected Rick Kuhn as an AAAS Fellow. Rick was awarded this honor for his distinguished contributions to the understanding of software faults and failures, and combinatorial methods...

Jeffrey Voas named as 2024 ACM Distinguished Member

Jeffrey Voas has been selected as a 2024 ACM Distinguished Member for his contributions to software fault injection methodologies, software testability assessments, and software certification methods. The ACM Distinguished Member designation is...

Angela Robinson awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers

Angela Robinson has been awarded the PECASE for her innovative work in the field of Post-Quantum Cryptography and privacy-enhancing cryptography. She helped develop a practical algorithm for privacy-preserving proximity detection with a direct...

Carl Miller and Angela Robinson receive Research Impact Award

Cryptographic Technology Group wins Research Impact Award

NIST's Cryptographic Technology Group has been selected to receive the Research Impact Award for their research leading to new post-quantum cryptographic standards. Congratulations to Dr. Dustin Moody, Dr. Angela Robinson, Mr. Andrew Regenscheid, Dr...

Robert Staples, Apostol Vassilev, Benjamin Livelsberger, Christopher Celi, Harold Booth

2024 - Bronze Medal Award---Christopher Celi, Benjamin Livelsberger, Robert Staples, Harold Booth, Apostol Vassilev

For enabling expedited conformance testing of cryptographic algorithm implementations, leading to more secure IT products worldwide.

2024 - Gold Medal Award---Murugiah Souppaya, Jon M. Boyens , Amy Mahn, Barbara Guttman, Adam Sedgewick, Matthew Scholl, Paul E. Black, Vadim Okun

For strengthening the security of the supply chain for software that delivers critical government services to the nation.

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.

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...

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...

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---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.

Black circle. White and gold lowercase A in the middle. Words around edge read: 28th Annual Video Distinction. Silver box below saying The Communicator Awards

NIST Staff Receive 2022 Communicators Award of Distinction for Video Animation

NIST's video "Post-Quantum Encryption: the Good, the Bad, and the Powerful" received a Communicators Award of Distinction in the Technology for Online Video category from the Academy of Interactive & Visual Arts (AIVA). Individuals recognized by the...

2021 - Gold Medal Award---Naomi Lefkovitz, Kaitlin Boeckl, Nakia Grayson, Maihuong Nguyen, Lisa Carnahan, Victoria Pillitteri, Adam Sedgewick, Dylan Gilbert

For exceptional leadership in developing, and driving adoption of, a novel framework to manage privacy risk while maximizing the beneficial uses of data.

2021 - Silver Medal Award---Jason Blake, Robert Gendler, Blair Heiserman, Mark Trapnell, Eric Trapnell, Dylan Yaga, Murugiah Souppaya

For development of the first free public cybersecurity SCAP 1.3 content for the macOS Catalina (macOS 10.15) and Big Sur (macOS 11).

Annie Sokol Wins INCITS Merit Award

Ms. Sokol is recognized for her tenacious participation and significant exemplary leadership in the development of international standards for smart cards, cloud computing, and cybersecurity. She has successfully served as an International...

Victoria Yan Pillitteri Wins Federal 100 Award

Congratulations to Victoria Yan Pillitteri who received the 2021 Federal 100 award.

2020 - Colleagues' Choice Award---Jim Foti

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

2020 - Judson C. French Award---Douglas White, Megan Ogata, Austin Snelick, Alexander Nelson, Eric Trapnell, Michael Ogata, Robert Byers, Gurmindersingh (Gini) J. Khalsa, Craig Russell, Mary Laamanen

For dramatic enhancements to law enforcement’s ability to identify child exploitation imagery through NIST’s National Software Reference Library.

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