TCSC 2015 - 2015 IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence for Early Career Researchers

2015 IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence for Early Career Researchers
(previously Award for Young Achievers in Scalable Computing)
The IEEE TCSC annual young achievers in scalable computing award recognizes up to 3 individuals
who have made outstanding, influential, and potentially long-lasting contributions in the field
of scalable
computing within 5 years of receiving their PhD degree as of January 01 of the year of the award.
Nominations: A candidate may be nominated by members of the community. An individual may
nominate at most one candidate for this award. Nomination must be submitted via email to
tcsc-awards-AT-rutgers.edu. A nomination application (as a single PDF file) should contain the
following details:
1. Name/email of person making the nomination (self-nominations are
not eligible)
2. Name/email of candidate for whom the award is recommended
3. A statement by the nominator (maximum of 500 words) as to why the
nominee is highly
deserving of the award. Note that since the award
is for outstanding contributions, the statement
and supporting letters should address what the
contributions are and why they are both
outstanding and significant. The nomination should also list the names and email of up to
3 persons who will provide letters supporting the nomination.
4. CV of the nominee
5. Up three support letters from persons other than
the nominator ? these should be collected by
the nominator and included in the nomination.
Important Dates:
- Nomination Deadline: July 01, 2015
- Results Notification: August 31, 2015
Award Selection Committee: The award selection committee will consists of:
David Abramson, University of Queensland, Australia
Barbara Chapman, University of Houston, USA
Satoshi Matsuoka, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Rosa M. Badia, BSC, Spain
Manish Parashar, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA (Chair)
Padma Raghavan, Penn State University, USA
Note that members of the selection committee cannot be nominators or provide support letters.
Award & Presentation Note: Awardees will be presented a plaque and will be recognized by IEEE
TCSC in its website, newsletter and archives. The awards will be presented at the SC15 conference
that will be held in Austin, TX, USA during November 15 ? 20, 2015. Details of the conference can
be found at http://sc15.supercomputing.org/.
For more information, please send email to tcsc-awards-AT-rutgers.edu.