Awards

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Ellen Voorhees receives Gerald Salton Award

Congratulations to Ellen Voorhees on receiving the Gerard Salton Award at the ACM Conference on Research and Development in Information

Jonathon Phillips elected AAAS Fellow

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has elected Dr. P. Jonathon Phillips as an AAAS Fellow. Dr. Phillips was

Sharon Laskowski wins Election Hero Award from the Center for Civic Design

Congratulations to Sharon Laskowski (IAD, guest researcher), who received an “Election Hero” award on February 7 th from the Center for

2022 - Distinguished Career Award---P. Jonathon Phillips

For a career of sustained excellence in advancing measurement science for face recognition and biometrics.

2022 - Gold Medal Award---Kristen Greene, Shanee Dawkins, Jody Jacobs, Mary Theofanos, Jennifer Kostick

For creating the Phish Scale, a revolutionary tool to rate socially engineered email attacks, which can strengthen an organization’s security posture.

NIST's Information Technology Image Group Were Recognized with the Service and Leadership Award at the 2022 Federal Identity Forum

The NIST Image Group is being nominated for the Service and Leadership team award for their substantive guidance and leadership to the

Diane Stephens Named Winner for the 2022 Women in Biometrics Award

Diane Stephens of the Information Access Division in NIST's Information Technology Laboratory has been named one of the 2022 Security

Ellen Voorhees Wins Ron Brown Excellence in Innovation Award

Dr. Ellen M. Voorhees was announced as the recipient of the Ron Brown Excellence Award in Innovation as part of the 73rd Annual Department

2021 - Bronze Medal Award---Darrin Dimmick, Angela Ellis, Gabriella Gomez

For providing unparalleled technical and administrative support to enable critical information retrieval research functions worldwide.

2021 - Bronze Medal Award---Jonathan Fiscus, Haiying Guan, Andrew Delgado, Yooyoung Lee, Amy N. Yates

improvements in measurement science that advanced forensic detection and analysis of altered videos, audio, and imagery.

2021 - Bronze Medal Award---Lawrence D. Nadel, Michael Garris, Heather Evans

For creating the NIST AI Community of Interest, which has galvanized cooperation across NIST to reap the benefits of AI for metrology.

2022 Ron Brown Excellence Award Ellen Voorhees

2021 - Ron Brown Excellence in Innovation Award---Ellen Voorhees

For leading the design and implementation of the NIST TREC COVID Challenge that provided unprecedented capability in accurately retrieving reliable, contemporaneous information for the global fight against COVID-19.

2021 - Gold Medal Award---Ellen Voorhees

For creating an unprecedented ability to accurately retrieve reliable, contemporaneous information on COVID-19 to fight the 2020 pandemic.

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.

2014 - Silver Medal Award---Su Lan Cheng (retired), Brian Cochran, Gregory Fiumara, Patricia A. Flanagan, Stanley Janet, Wayne J. Salamon, Craig I. Watson

For creating an unprecedented biometric evaluation capability that accelerated forensic standards development and innovation in biometric technology.

Information Access Division