Nominations Open for 2025 ISC Jack Dongarra Early Career Award

HAMBURG, Germany, October 21, 2024 – The ISC Conference announced that nominations are open for the 2025 ISC Jack Dongarra Early Career Award. The confeerene encourages community members to nominate early-career researchers they consider to have significantly contributed to scientific progress in their research fields.

Nominations will close on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025. The guidelines for nominations are available on the ISC website. A prerequisite is that researchers must have between four and 10 years of experience after completing their PhD.

ISC understands the challenges that young families and individuals face in their professional journeys. Therefore, the committee is open to extending the eligibility period by up to four years for those who have become parents, served as primary caregivers, or encountered significant personal challenges after graduation.

The award winner will be invited to deliver a lecture at ISC 2025. At the same stage, Professor Jack Dongarra will award them a cash prize of 5,000 euros and a certificate recognizing their contribution.

The ISC High Performance Jack Dongarra Early Career Award and Lecture Series is an annual event that celebrates Professor Jack Dongarra’s significant contributions to high performance computing (HPC) and the HPC community. This award recognizes outstanding early-career researchers who have made exceptional contributions to fields such as numerical algorithms, software libraries, computational sciences, mathematics, and machine learning.

An international committee headed by Prof Michela Taufer, who co-incidentally holds the Jack Dongarra Professorship in HPC within the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA, will conduct the selection process. The other committee members for the 2025 selection include

  • David Abramson, The University of Queensland, Australia

  • Rosa Badia, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain

  • Ewa Deelman, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA

  • Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, USA

  • Torsten Hoefler, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

  • Yutong Lu, Sun Yat-Sen University East Campus, China

  • Satoshi Matsuoka, RIKEN Center for Computational Science, Japan

  • Amanda Randles, Duke University, USA

  • Dan Reed, University of Utah, USA

The award winner’s lecture will be published in the International Journal of High Performance Computer Applications.