[ogsa-wg] Call for Nominations - 2022 IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence (Technical Achievement)

[Arne Wilston]

Call for Nominations (CFN) - IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence (Technical
Achievement) - 2022

The IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence (Technical Achievement) is awarded for
significant and sustained contributions to the scalable computing community
through the IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC), coupled
with an outstanding record of high quality and high impact research. The
award consists of a plaque and an honorarium of $1000.


The past recipients of the IEEE TCSC award of excellence are: Jack Dongarra
(University of Tennessee, USA) in 2008, Rajkumar Buyya (University of
Melbourne, Australia) in 2009, William Gropp (University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, USA) in 2010, Albert Zomaya (University of Sydney,
Australia) in 2011, David Abramson (Monash University, Australia) in 2012,
Marc Snir (Argonne National Laboratory, USA) in 2013, Yves Robert (UMR
CNRS, ENS Lyon, INRIA, France) in 2014, Ian Foster (University of Chicago
and Argonne National Laboratory, USA) in 2015, Sartaj Sahni (University of
Florida, USA) in 2016, Laurence T. Yang (St. Francis Xavier University,
Canada) in 2017, Minyi Guo (Shanghai Jiaotong University) in 2018, Schahram
Dustdar (TU Wien, Austria) in 2019, Jinjun Chen (Swinburne, Australia) in
2020, and Abdulmotaleb El Saddik (University of Ottawa, Canada) in 2021.

Nominations: A candidate may be nominated by colleagues/TCSC members or may
nominate him/her-self. An individual can nominate at most one candidate for
this award. The candidate must be an IEEE, IEEE CS, and TCSC member in good
standing. Nomination must be submitted via email to the selection committee
chair.  A nomination application (as a single PDF file) should contain the
following details:

1. Professional Employment Affiliations: List the nominee's current
professional affiliations and titles.

2. Citation: Give a brief citation (thirty words or less) precisely stating
the most salient reason(s) why the nominee is qualified for the award.

3. Technical Contributions: Describe the nominee's technical achievements
in scalable computing as well as significance and impact. (Max 2-page
length)

4. TCSC Contribution: Describe the candidate’s service and specific
contributions to TCSC. (Max 2-page length)

5. Endorsers: Each nomination must be supported by letter from three at
least endorsers. An endorser can endorse only one candidate for this award.
The endorsers will be required to comment on the   nominee's technical
contributions as well as service contributions to the TCSC. The endorsement
letters should be included in the nomination package.

Important Dates:
        Nomination Deadline:  31 October 2022
        Result Notification:     15 November 2022

Award Selection Committee:
The award selection committee will consist of past winners, leaders in the
field, as well as members of the TCSC Award Committee.


Award Selection Committee:

    Laurence T. Yang (Chair), St. Francis Xavier University, Canada (
ltyang at ieee.org)

    Bernady O. Apduhan, Kyushu Sangyo University, Japan (
bob at is.kyusan-u.ac.jp)

    Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia (
jinjun.chen at gmail.com)

    Jamal Deen, McMaster University, Canada (jamal at mcmaster.ca)

    Beniamino Di Martino, Universita' della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli",
Italy (beniamino.dimartino at unicampania.it)
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