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Awards Received by NIST Employees

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P. Jonathon Phillips Honored with Career Achievement Award

Dr. P. Jonathon Phillips is a world-renowned expert in computer vision, face recognition, and biometrics and a pioneer in developing competitions to improve these technologies. He began working in face recognition and biometrics in 1993 and joined...

Judith Mitrani-Reiser Inducted to the Academy of Distinguished Alumni

Dr. Mitrani-Reiser is recognized as a preeminent authority in disaster science and has dedicated her career to reduction of losses from disasters and failures in our built environment. At NIST she provides leadership for national programs, including...

Ron Ross Receives Special Recognition Award from The American Bar Association’s Section on Science & Technology Law

For the enormous contribution made in the field of cybersecurity, particularly in the area of best practices and standards for cybersecurity and cyber risk management that are so critical to securing the Internet and protecting national and economic...

2022 Special Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation - John Lehman

The topic for the application is that of thermal detectors for space-based measurements of the earth radiation budget. The main scientific goal is to achieve the lowest uncertainty measurements by means of micromachined, carbon nanotube-based...

Therese McAllister Receives 2021 ASCE Walter P Moore, Jr. Award

In recognition of demonstrated technical expertise in and dedication to the development of structural codes and standards

Aspasia Nikolaou Receives Metropolitan Section Civil Engineer of the Year for 2020 – 2021

In recognition of her character, professional integrity, and years of outstanding service to the civil engineering profession.

Shaw C. Feng is Recognized with the Eli Whitney Productivity Award

Shaw C. Feng is recognized with the Eli Whitney Productivity Award for his outstanding contributions to using efficiently linked data to enable digital metrology, sustainable manufacturing and systems integration for manufacturing industries thereby...

Bonita V. Saunders Named the 2021 AWM-MAA Falconer Lecturer

In recognition of her distinguished contributions to mathematics and mathematics education as well as her skill in delivering an expository lecture. A full press release is available at: https://awm-math.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/PR-Falconer...

2021 EFTF Young Scientist Award - David Leibrandt

For exceptional scientific creativity and achievement in designing and implementing state-of-the-art trapped-ion optical clocks with the lowest systematic uncertainty.

NIST ITL Team Wins 2021 InnovateIT Award

The National Institute of Standards and Technology's team that runs the National Vulnerabilities Database was awarded the 2021 InnovateIT Award: Security Innovation Leader. Bob Byers is credited with leading a team that developed a method to better...

2020 U. Delaware College of Engineering Award, Post-Doctoral Research -- Yuyin Xi

COE Award for Post-Doctoral Researcher Excellence recognizes a postdoctoral fellow who has demonstrated excellence in research, teaching, mentoring, service, and/or leadership

Ellen Voorhees - NIST Fellow

ITL is pleased to announce that Dr. Ellen Voorhees has been named a NIST Fellow. Dr. Voorhees is a pioneer and recognized leader in the U.S. Government’s efforts to advance the state of the art in information retrieval technology through evaluation...

John Messina Wins INCITS Service Award

INCITS recognizes Mr. Messina for his numerous contributions to the INCITS/Cloud38 – Cloud Computing and Distributed Platforms standards community. John Messina has been a member of INCITS/Cloud38 and its vice-chair for several years and has held...

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...

Mary Theofanos demonstrates NIST-designed fingerprint overlays on a fingerprint-scanning system in 2011.

Mary Theofanos Honored with INCITS Award

Mary Frances Theofanos is recognized for numerous contributions to the INICTS/M1 – Biometrics and INCITS/SSE – Software and Systems Engineering standards communities and their international mirror groups, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 37 and ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 7...

Photo of NIST physicist Jun Ye with his strontium atomic clock

2021 Julius Springer Prize - Jun Ye

Dr Jun Ye, Fellow of National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and JILA, member of National Academy of Sciences and Professor Ad joint of Physics at the University of Colorado Boulder, has made remarkable contributions to the...

Robert Ivester Receives 2021 Distinguished Alumni Award

The UMass Amherst College of Engineering announced the five recipients of its 2021 Distinguished Alumni Award representing the college’s five departments. Robert W. Ivester ’91, ’93 MS, ’96 PhD, Acting MEP Director and Deputy Director at the National...

2021 Fellow of the Royal Society - Thirumalai Venkatesan

Thirumalai Venky Venkatesan is inventor of the pulsed laser deposition process and is a pioneer in its application to thin films of complex oxides and related multi component materials, which has transformed research on films/ heterostructures...

A Group within the Intelligent Systems Division are 2021 FINALIST

Adam Jacoff, Ann Virts, Kamel Saidi, Elena Messina, Kenny Kimble, Dave Schmitt, Tony Downs, and Brian Weiss are recognized as 2021 FINALIST for the 2021 Service to America Medal in the category of Safety, Security, and International Affairs for...

Geršković, García Receive Communicator Award

The NIST on a Chip video series was recognized by the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts with a Communicator Award in the Online Video - Campaign or Series–Web Series category. The Communicator Awards is an annual competition honoring the best...

Wai Cheong Tam Receives Alice Hamilton Award for Occupational Safety and Health

The research work "Estimation of the critical external heat leading to the failure of lithium-ion batteries" by Wei Tang (NIOSH), Wai Cheong Tam (NIST), Liming Yuan (NIOSH), Thomas Dubaniewicz (NIOSH), Richard Thomas (NIOSH), and John Soles (NIOSH)...