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Information Technology Laboratory

Awards

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2020 - Gold Medal Award---Justin Zook, Nathanael Olson, Justin Wagner, Jennifer McDaniel, Lindsay Harris, Daniel Samarov, Hariharan Iyer, Peter Vallone, Megan Cleveland

For developing a suite of human genome metrology tools via a NIST-led consortium to make it possible to decipher life's code with unprecedented rigor.

2020 - Judson C. French Award---Douglas White, Megan Ogata, Austin Snelick, Alexander Nelson, Eric Trapnell, Michael Ogata, Robert Byers, Gurmindersingh (Gini) J. Khalsa, Craig Russell, Mary Laamanen

For dramatic enhancements to law enforcement’s ability to identify child exploitation imagery through NIST’s National Software Reference Library.

2020 - Gold Medal Award---Patrick Grother, P. Jonathon Phillips, Mei Lee Ngan, Kayee Hanaoka, Amy N. Yates, Amanda Carina Hahn

For groundbreaking measurements and standards for algorithms that have transformed face recognition technologies.

2020 - Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medal---Donna F. Dodson

Recognized as one of the nation’s premier cybersecurity expert

2020 - Judson C. French Award---Nicos Martys, William George, Steven Satterfield, Blaza Toman

For development of a concrete rheology Standard Reference Material -- the first SRM certified through computer simulation.

2020 - Gold Medal Award---Keith Stouffer, Victoria Pillitteri, Suzanne Lightman

For development of internationally adopted cybersecurity guidelines and tools that protect critical infrastructure and critical industrial processes.

Rising Star: Katie Boeckl

For accomplishments over the past year and for leadership potential in this community

Donna Dodson Receives Service to America Medal

Recognized as one of the nation’s premier cybersecurity experts, having helped develop the first commercially available encryption standards

Robert Snelick Named 2020 HL7 Fellow

This honor was bestowed upon Rob for his many contributions to HL7 for over a decade and a half, particularly regarding his leadership and

Lisa Carnahan Awarded 2020 Leadership in IT Standards for Industry Award

For her national and international leadership in IT research and development for cybersecurity, privacy, health care testing infrastructure

Patrick Grother, Mei Ngan, and Kayee Hanaoka Win FedID Award

For their work in the NIST Face Recognition Vendor Test (FRVT) program, the largest and most extensive face recognition algorithm test of

Elham Tabassi Awarded 2020 Excellence in Research in Computer Science Award

For outstanding contributions and leadership in computer vision, fingerprint image analysis, facial recognition algorithms, artificial

Michael Donahue Awarded 2020 Excellence in Research in Applied Mathematics Award

For excellence in applied mathematics, leading to new tools for modeling and simulation which have transformed research into nanoscale

Rene Peralta Wins Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing

For the paper Computation in networks of passively mobile finite-state sensors - Distributed Computing 18(4): 235-253 (2006).

2020 Women in Biometrics Award winner: Mei Ngan

The incredible advancements made by the dedicated professionals leading this field are helping keep our cities and citizens, our companies

Naomi Lefkovitz wins 2020 IAPP Vanguard Award

For exceptional leadership, knowledge and creativity in the field of privacy and data protection, whether through spearheading projects or

Naomi Lefkovitz Wins Federal 100 Award

Congratulations to Naomi Lefkovitz who received the 2020 Federal 100 award.

Donna Dodson Receives 2019 Presidential Rank Award

Donna Dodson is recognized for her technical acumen, extraordinary leadership, and worldwide impact in the area of cybersecurity. She serves

Charles Romine Receives 2019 Presidential Rank Award

Charles Romine is recognized for his leadership in transforming the NIST Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) into the nation’s leading

Ronald Boisvert Selected as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Ronald Boisvert, Chief of ITL’s Applied and Computational Mathematics Division (ACMD), has been selected as a Fellow of the Association for

Montgomery, Borchert, Rose, McBride, Sriram

2019 - Bronze Medal Award---Oliver Borchert, William Haag Jr., Tim McBride, Douglas Montgomery, Scott Rose, Murugiah Souppaya, Kotikalapudi Sriram

For leadership in public/private collaborations that have advanced the security of national and global network infrastructures.

Luce, Barnard Feeney, Dima, Hedberg, Helu, Weiss

2019 - Gold Medal Award---Mark Luce, Allison Barnard Feeney, Thomas D. Hedberg, Jr., Moneer Helu, Brian A. Weiss, Alden Dima

For developing a unique facility that accelerates the adoption of critical digital technologies and streams data to enable manufacturing innovation.