HPDC 2025 Achievement Award

We are happy to announce that Michela Taufer is the recipient of the 2025 Achievement Award in High Performance Distributed Computing.

Citation: For her contributions to volunteer computing and advancing high-performance computing.

Dr. Taufer will deliver a keynote address and be recognized at the HPDC 2025 conference in Notre Dame, Indiana, USA.

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Dr. Michela Taufer, an American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow and Association for Computing Machinery Distinguished Scientist, holds the Jack Dongarra Professorship in High-Performance Computing (HPC) at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She earned her B.S. in Computer Engineering (University of Padova, Italy) and Ph.D. in Computer Science (ETH Zurich, Switzerland). A former postdoctora fellow at the University of California, San Diego and The Scripps Research Institute, Dr. Taufer is dedicated to multidisciplinary research, connecting computational and experimental sciences. Her work focuses on designing HPC, cloud, and volunteer computing solutions, applying artificial intelligence/machine learning to scientific applications, and advancing algorithms and workflows with a solid commitment to reproducibility and transparency in research.


Past Winners
  • 2024: Laxmikant (Sanjay) Kale, for pioneering development of task-based adaptive parallel programming models and runtime systems, leading to a new category of highly scalable scientific applications.
  • 2023: Manish Parashar, for pioneering contributions in high performance parallel and distributed computational methods, data management, in-situ computing, and international leadership in cyberinfrastructure and translational computer science.
  • 2022: Franck Cappello, for his pioneering contributions in methods, tools, and testbeds for resilient high performance parallel and distributed computing.
  • 2021: Rosa M. Badia, for her innovations in parallel task-based programming models, workflow applications and systems, and leadership in the high performance computing research community.
  • 2020: No award made.
  • 2019: Geoffrey Fox, for his foundational contributions to parallel computing, high-performance software, the interface between applications and systems, contributions to education, and outreach to underrepresented communities.
  • 2018: Satoshi Matsuoka, for his pioneering research in the design, implementation, and application of high performance systems and software tools for parallel and distributed systems.
  • 2017: David Abramson, for his pioneering research in the design, implementation, and application of high performance systems and software tools for parallel and distributed systems.
  • 2016: Jack Dongarra, for his long-standing and far-reaching contributions in high performance linear algebra and large-scale parallel and distributed computing.
  • 2015: Ewa Deelman, for her significant influence, contributions, and distinguished use of workflow systems in high-performance computing.
  • 2014: Rich Wolski, for pioneering and high-impact contributions to grid, cloud, and parallel computing.
  • 2013: Miron Livny, for his significant contribution and high impact in the area of high-throughput computing.
  • 2012: Ian Foster, for his initiative in the creation and development of grid computing and his significant contributions to high-performance distributed computing in support of the sciences.