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Technical Excellence MML Accolades 2024
Use the quick links below to navigate to each category of 2024 Technical Excellence Accolades. There, you'll find a description of the accolade and the list of awardees and their contributions."
- MML Collaboration and Teamwork
- MML Science Data Management and Capabilities
- Measurement Science Excellence
- Measurement Services Excellence
- MML Early Career
- MML Postdoctoral Fellow
- MML Student Intern
- MML Distinguished Associate
MML Collaboration and Teamwork
To recognize and foster teamwork across divisions and across OUs and beyond, honoring those, as a leader or as a team, who have used collaboration for successful project development and problem-solving.
Christina Alexander
Michele Buckley
Tatianna Cartnail
Katrina Chavers
Mark Cronise
Kristy Dahlin
Tracy Hayat
Devin McMillan
Nancy Parrish
Dana Payne
Lisa Rocker
Julie Weiblinger
Cindy Whalen
Xin Zeng
For outstanding collaboration and teamwork between two divisions, Office of Reference Materials (Division 640) and the Financial Operations Division (Division 166), managing the incredibly complex account of a Standard Reference Material (SRM) licensed distributor. *not pictured
For excellent advocacy, ownership, and education of 508 compliance in MML.
Science Data Management and Capabilities
To recognize those who build the infrastructure for the next generation of data science tools and data sets in order to facilitate scientific innovation.
Eva Campo, Bonnie Carroll, Debra Kaiser, Andrea Medina-Smith, Alda Yuan
For development of and community engagement with the NIST Research Data Framework, a comprehensive overview and guide to research data management.
For his dedication to developing the data plumbing system/MML Data Archive.
Measurement Science Excellence
To recognize MML staff and associates who conduct research that solves critical stakeholder problems and inspires innovations in measurement science.
Elizabeth Sorenson
Peter Bradley
Damian Lauria
Li-Anne Liew
For developing the instrumentation and testing protocols to evaluate extreme-temperature structural reliability of commercial microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), for cryogenic applications such as quantum computing.
George Caceres, Monique Johnson, Antonio Montoro Bustos, Karen Murphy, Michael Winchester
For a decade of outstanding contributions towards the advancement of nanomaterial measurement science with single particle inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (spICP-MS).
Measurement Services Excellence
To recognize superior work in development of measurement services in the areas of Reference Materials (RMs)/Standard Reference Materials (SRMs), Standard Reference Instruments (SRIs), documentary standards, quality assurance programs, and interlaboratory studies.
Donald Burgess Jr.
Angela Lee*
Karen Ann Price
For development of the NIST Temperature Scale Database (SRD 60) providing a comprehensive set of recommended temperatures. *not pictured
Hua-Jun He
Zhiyong He
Jennifer McDaniel
Nathanael Olson
Vaidehiben Patel
Justin Wagner
For outstanding management of the largest, most diverse set of publicly available cancer genome data for a new broadly-consented tumor cell line.
MML Early Career
To recognize the superior work of MML associates and staff in the early portion of their career at NIST.
For an unwavering dedication to metrological excellence in NMR and MS analyses for multiple applications.
For remarkable contributions in heat treatment optimization of additively manufactured titanium leading to improved fatigue lifetime, revision of a material specification standard, and enabled use in critical applications.
For outstanding work designing and optimizing next-generation sequencing (NGS) methods to characterize forensic short tandem repeats (STR) in support of the NIST Variant Allele Sequencing Program.
MML Postdoctoral Fellow
To recognize the superior work of the postdoctoral fellows who work with MML staff on scientific projects.
For outstanding computationally-based research into quantifying the nature of the of the static and dynamic hydration layers of ions and polyzwitterion polymers and incisive analysis based on these simulations in interpreting observed specific ion effects in neutron scattering measurements.
For exceptional computational research in nanofluidics that sheds light on the fundamental properties of aqueous ion transport through subnanoporous two-dimensional materials and opens new avenues of application ranging from sensing and water purification to energy storage and neuromorphic computing.
Julio Pereira Dos Santos
For outstanding work implementing a new phase model description for topological close-packed phases in a multicomponent Co-based superalloy thermodynamic database (Co-Al-W-Ni-Cr-Ta-Ti-Re-Ru).
For outstanding computational studies of superconductors and 2D magnets with quantum and deep-learning methods.
MML Student Intern
To recognize the superior work of the interns that work alongside MML staff on either scientific or administrative projects.
Vaishnavi Banda
Sasanka Sreedevi-Naresh
For outstanding research to develop a novel method to establish measurement metrics for AI/LLM performance.
Vamsi Krishna Bolla
For significant contribution to the studies of the NISTCHO cell line (RGTM 10197) and the analytical characterization of its product, the cNISTmAb.
Peter Dvorak
For deploying new, advanced technology for the creation of HELP documentation for Standard Reference Databases developed at the Thermodynamics Research Center and for improvement of the HELP system for SRD 103a and 103b (ThermoData Engine).
For significant contribution to the development of control strategies and training data sets that have enabled label-free AI AI-driven cell viability analysis and supported key aspects of a draft international standard.
MML Technology Transfer
To recognize the superior transfer of NIST technical work for use by our stakeholders in areas of national priorities and mission-related efforts.
Carolyn Burdette
Jared Ragland
Alix Rodowa
For developing a series of video tutorials for the Database Infrastructure of the Mass Spectrometry project.
Benjamin Long, Brandon Lane, Gerard Lemson, Gretchen Greene, Lyle Levine, Andrew Reid, Chandler Becker, Jai Won Kim, Samia Benjida, Carelyn Campbell, Arik Mitschang, Jordan Raddick
For the innovative development of the new public Manufacturing Domain for Additive Manufacturing Benchmark data system.
MML Distinguished Associate
To recognize associates or previous staff members who have made outstanding contributions to MML goals.
This accolade is for work that earned the NIST staff member(s) a DOC-level award in the previous year, and is designed to recognize associates or previous staff members that were critical to the success of the work.
Darren Albert
For developing and implementing an intuitive and robust LabVIEW-based graphical user interface application that enables visualization, curation, and management of microscopy data for an AI-enhanced materials analysis platform used by multiple external stakeholder organizations.
*For significant contributions that were awarded a 2023 Gold Medal
Susan Ballou
Richard Cavanagh
Jeffrey Horlick
Mark Stolorow
For extraordinary national leadership in improving the scientific quality of forensic science practices through standards development.
*For significant contributions that were awarded a 2023 Gold Medal with John Jones, Karen Reczek, Allison Getz, Donna Sirk, John Butler, Will Guthrie, Marcela Najarro, Alan Zheng, Barbara Guttman
Nathan Hotaling
Petru Manescu*
Sarala Padi
Nicholas Schaub*
Mylene Simon
For developing a suite of tools used to characterize a first-of-its kind tissue engineered product for treatment of macular degeneration. *not pictured
*For significant contributions that were awarded a 2023 Gold award with Carl Simon and Peter Bajcsy
Sean Bresler
For the development of highly accurate and sensitive chip-scale optomechanical accelerometers for applications in transportation and defense.
*For significant contributions that were awarded a 2023 Silver Medal with David Long, Jason Gorman, Thomas LeBrun, Benjamin Reschovsky
For developing novel hydrogen-exchange mass-spectrometry methods that improve understanding of the structure and activity of protein-based drugs.
*For significant contributions that were awarded a 2023 Bronze Medal with Kyle Anderson
Daniel Lum
Michael Mazurek
Alexander Mikhaylov
Kristen Parzuchowski
For refuting published claims about quantum-enhanced microscopy by careful measurements of molecular absorption of photon pairs.
*For significant contributions that were awarded a 2023 Bronze Medal with Martin Stevens, Ralph Jimenez, Charles H. Camp Jr., Thomas Gerrits
For development and deployment of a statistical tool for experiment design and rigorous assessment of measurement uncertainty for chemical analysis.
*For significant contributions that were awarded a 2023 Bronze Medal with Michael Nelson, Blaza Toman, David Newton, Johanna Camara, Lane Sander, Amanda Koepke, Katrice Lippa
Valeri Babushok*
Piotr Domanski
Michael Hegetschweiler*
Dennis Kim
Lingnan Lin
Richard Perkins
For identifying non-flammable, low-global-warming-potential alternatives to the widely used refrigerant HFC-134a for U.S. military applications. *not pictured
*For significant contributions that were awarded a 2023 Rabinow award with Mark McLinden, Ian Bell, Tara Fortin, Marcia Huber, Stephanie Outcalt, Aaron Rowane, Mark Kedzierski, Gregory Linteris, W. Vance Payne, Harrison Skye
Brandi Keene
For grassroots efforts to create a more inclusive environment for working parents by establishing NIST-wide policies and spaces for lactating moms.
*For significant contributions that were awarded a 2023 DEI award with Ashley Beasley Green, Susan Cantilli, Kristen Gilbert, Danni Leicht, Abigail Lindstrom, Diana Masselle, Diane Ortiz-Montalvo, Ileana Pazos, Jessica Staymates, Kelly Telu