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Awards Received by NIST Employees
Notice: This collection is not comprehensive. Most awards included are recent. We are working to make the site more complete.
Xiao Tang, leader of the Applied and Computational Mathematics Division's Quantum Communications Project, was named Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) "for outstanding contributions to the development of optical technologies and systems...
The joint EL-MML paper “Interlaboratory Study for Nickel Alloy 625 Made by Laser Powder Bed Fusion to Quantify Mechanical Property Variability” has been selected as an Editor’s Choice article for 2016 by the Journal of Materials Engineering and...
Ron Boisvert is recognized for his distinguished contributions to the fields of mathematical software and computational science, excellence in public administration of science, and service to the computing profession.
José Torres Ferrer has been an invaluable assistant and lead instructor for over 140 seminars and nearly 1500 students in the past twenty‐five years covering a full range of laboratory topics covered by the Office of Weights and Measures (OWM) as...
For his pioneering achievements on spectroscopic capability of scanning tunneling microscopy opening novel perspectives for revealing the quantum nature of the nano-world.
Teufel received the award for his innovations in quantum optomechanics that are helping mechanical technologies approach the quantum limits of precision measurement and create new computing paradigms with unprecedented processing power.
Adam J. (AJ) Fleisher of MML's Gas Sensing Metrology Group has been awarded the Ivan P. Kaminow Young Professional Prize by the Optical Society of America (OSA).
During the past year, AJ was heavily involved in several high-profile OSA activities...
Dr. Laura Sinclair is a physicist in the Applied Physics Division at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). She is recognized for pioneering new robust optical tools based on fiber frequency combs that operate outside well...
Ram D. Sriram, Chief of ITL’s Software and Systems Division, has been named an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Fellow, effective January 1, 2017, for leadership in developing computational tools for healthcare enterprises...
For being the first in nearly 50 years of attempts to achieve a loophole-free test of Bell’s theorem, confirming the predictions of quantum mechanics. Nearly 20 NIST employees and associates from PML and ITL contributed to this achievement.
For the development of open-source hardware and software designs for a state-of-the-art digital servo that is being rapidly adopted by researchers inside and outside of NIST.
For providing exceptional customer focus and innovation in automating processes and managing secure data for online applications that serve both internal and external stakeholders and support NIST's mission.
For singular leadership of MEP's unprecedented efforts to improve competitiveness of small US manufacturing enterprises through revitalized relationships with state economic development strategies.
For leading the deployment of new measurement-science tools to industry, for service-life prediction and product-failure reduction in the solar-energy market.