The IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) is a technical committee within IEEE Computer Society, aimed at fostering research and education in scalable computing with applications. The committee solicits nominations of Early Career Researcher (ECR) Award. The award includes an award plaque that will be presented at the annual IEEE HPCC conference, along with a public citation for the award on the IEEE TCSC website.
The IEEE TCSC (Technical Committee on Scalable Computing) Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing (Early Career Researchers) recognizes up to 5 individuals who have made outstanding, influential, and potentially long-lasting contributions in the field of scalable computing. Typically the candidates are 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 the selection committee chair. A nomination application (as a single PDF file) should contain the following details:
- Name/email of person making the nomination (self-nominations are not eligible).
- Name/email of candidate for whom the award is recommended.
- A statement by the nominator (maximum of 500 words) as to why the nominee is highly deserving of the award both on excellence and in relation to IEEE TCSC.
- CV of the nominee.
- Up three support letters from persons other than the nominator – these should be collected by the nominator and included in the nomination. Members of selection committee cannot be nominators or referees.
- Nomination Deadline: October 15, 2025
- Results Notification: October 31, 2025
- Jinjun Chen (Chair), Swinburne University of Technology, Australia (jinjun.chen@gmail.com)
- Bernady O. Apduhan, Kyushu Sangyo University, Japan (bob@is.kyusan-u.ac.jp)
- Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada (ltyang@ieee.org)
- Beniamino Di Martino, Universita' della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Italy (beniamino.dimartino@unicampania.it)
- Didier El Baz, LAAS-CNRS, France (elbaz@laas.fr)
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 a selected IEEE TCSC sponsored conference.
Winners:
• 2024
Kai Zhang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Chaojie Gu, Zhejiang University, China
Deepika Saxena, The University of Aizu, Japan
Roberto Casadei, University of Bologna, Italy
Chaofeng Zhang, Tokyo Metropolitan Public University, Japan
Yan Meng, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
• 2023
Jianbing Ni, Queen's University, Canada
Maciej Besta, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Spyros Mastorakis, University of Notre Dame, USA
Arijit Roy, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India
Minxian Xu, SIAT, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Han Qiu, Tsinghua University, China
• 2022
Gagangeet Singh Aujla, Durham University, UK
Rong Gu, Nanjing University, China
Muneeb Ul Hassan, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Yaliang Zhao, Henan University, China
Jiangtian Nie, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
• 2021
Hoang Dinh, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Kuljeet Kaur, École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada
Xiaokang Wang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada
Yanmin Gong, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
Zehui Xiong, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore
• 2020
Sahil Garg, École de technologie Superieure (ÉTS), Canada
Huazhong Liu, Hainan University, China
Xiulong Liu, Tianjin University, China
Zhenyu Wen, Newcastle University, UK
Haoyi Xiong, Baidu Research, China
Hailong Yang, Beihang University, China
Xiaokang Zhou, Shiga University, Japan
• 2019
Chubo Liu, Hunan University, China
Linghe Kong, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Tianzheng Wang, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Ju Ren, Central South University, China
He Li, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan
Xianjun Deng, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada
• 2018
Qian Wang, Wuhan University, China
Deepak Puthal, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Guoqi Xie, Hunan University, China
Qingchen Zhang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada
Wei Li, The University of Sydney, Australia
Chao Li, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
• 2017
Kaoru Ota, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan
Quan Chen, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Lena Mashayekhy, University of Delaware, USA
Xiaohui Liang, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA
Chunsheng Zhu, The University of British Columbia, Canada
• 2016
Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Fordham University, USA
Leonardo Bautista Gomez, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain
Mianxiong Dong, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan
Xingang Liu, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
Nikos Tziritas, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
• 2015
Ilkay Altintas, San Diego Supercomputer Center, UC San Diego, USA
Aydın Buluç, Computational Research Division - Berkeley Lab (LBNL), USA
Kurt B. Ferreira, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
• 2014
Abhinav Bhatele, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
Jed Brown, Argonne National Laboratory & University of Colorado Boulder, USA
Yong Chen, Texas Tech University, USA
Ioan Raicu, Illinois Institute of Technology & Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Ivan Rodero, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA
• 2013
Yuriy Brun, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA
Jeff R. Hammond, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, USA
Torsten Höfler, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland