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Awards Received by NIST Employees

Keyword

Organizational Unit

2021 - Bronze Medal Award---Rick Davis

For development of new Standard Reference Material cigarettes for regulatory compliance testing of the ignition propensity of residential furnishings.

2021 - Bronze Medal Award---Keith Stouffer, Timothy Zimmerman, CheeYee Tang, Michael Pease, Jeffrey Cichonski

For development and dissemination of the first detailed cybersecurity guidelines specifically for protecting small and medium-sized manufacturers.

2021 - Bronze Medal Award---Craig Schlenoff, William Harrison, Anthony Downs, Pavlo Piliptchak, Murat Aksu

For developing an innovative simulation-based robot agility competition that has spurred breakthrough solutions to industry’s robotics challenges.

2021 - Bronze Medal Award---Michael Brundage, Rachael Sexton

For developing an innovative method to integrate human expertise with machine learning to extract manufacturing knowledge from technical data.

2021 - Bronze Medal Award---Yan Lu, Paul Witherell, Benjamin Long

For the development of an additive manufacturing materials database and data portal to accelerate the adoption of additive manufacturing.

2021 - Bronze Medal Award---Lawrence D. Nadel, Michael Garris, Heather Evans

For creating the NIST AI Community of Interest, which has galvanized cooperation across NIST to reap the benefits of AI for metrology.

2021 - Bronze Medal Award---Jonathan Fiscus, Haiying Guan, Andrew Delgado, Yooyoung Lee, Amy N. Yates

improvements in measurement science that advanced forensic detection and analysis of altered videos, audio, and imagery.

2021 - Bronze Medal Award---Darrin Dimmick, Angela Ellis, Gabriella Gomez

For providing unparalleled technical and administrative support to enable critical information retrieval research functions worldwide.

2021 - Bronze Medal Award---Alden Dima, Talapady Bhat , Benjamin Long , Jacob Collard, Rachael Sexton, John Elliott

For the rapid development and deployment of an innovative COVID-19 research system used globally to improve collective research knowledge-sharing.

2021 - Bronze Medal Award---Christopher Zangmeister, Jimmy Radney, Jamie Weaver, Matthew Staymates, Robin Materese , Riley Wilson , Richard Press, Leon Geršković

For characterization of the performance and usage of facemasks used to slow the spread of COVID-19, and communication of the results to the public.

2021 - Bronze Medal Award---Srivalli Telikepalli, Dean Ripple, Michael Carrier, Kristen Steffens, Christopher Montgomery, Nicholas W. M. Ritchie, John Lu

For development of a novel reference material that mimics the particles found in protein-based drugs and supports accurate measures of drug quality.

2021 - Bronze Medal Award---Vytautas Reipa, Vincent Hackley, Blaza Toman

For design and development of a system of traceable measurements that enable risk assessments of nanoparticles that exhibit photocatalytic activity.

2021 - Bronze Medal Award---Daniel Wheeler, Trevor Keller, Jonathan Guyer, James Warren

For leading a community-sourced effort that established a foundation for building trust in phase field simulations used for advanced materials design.

2021 - Bronze Medal Award---Martin Chiang

For developing a suite of tools and a documentary standard to support advancements and improved clinical longevity for dental composite restorations.

2021 - Bronze Medal Award---Gheorghe Stan

For the invention, development, and industrial application of Intermittent Contact Resonance Atomic Force Microscopy.

2021 - Bronze Medal Award---Brian Maranville, Paul Kienzle, William Ratcliff

For the development of cloud-based data reduction and visualization software benefiting the U.S. and international neutron scattering communities.

2021 - Bronze Medal Award---Adrian Mitchell, Vivian Shirley, Michelle Wims, Jason Fellows, Darryl Hallman, James Crabill, Christian Colburn, Elaine Oliver

For superior Logistics Services and Site Services support to the NIST Boulder and Gaithersburg campuses during COVID Phase I reopening planning.

2021 - Bronze Medal Award---Joshua Pomeroy, Michael Stewart, Jr., Jonathan Wyrick

For developing new techniques to successfully manufacture atomic-scale electronic and quantum devices.

2021 - Bronze Medal Award---Nikolai N. Klimov, Zeeshan Ahmed, Tobias Herman

For the development of the silicon nanophotonic thermometer as a robust replacement for the widely used, 150-year-old, standard resistance thermometer.

2021 - Bronze Medal Award---Chin-wen Chou, David Hume, David Leibrandt, Dietrich Leibfried, Tara Fortier, Scott Diddams, Alejandra Collopy

For breakthrough metrology to control and entangle atomic and molecular ions, providing powerful new approaches to quantum computing and networking.

2021 - Silver Medal Award---Varun Verma, Adriana Lita, Richard Mirin, Sae Woo Nam, Thomas Gerrits, Martin Stevens, Robert Horansky

For advancing quantum communication and imaging applications by creating novel high-efficiency single-photon detectors and kilopixel arrays