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Follow on Google News | Two Students Named Recipients of ACM/IEEE-CS George Michael Memorial HPC FellowshipsHarshitha Menon of the UIUC and Alexander Breuer of TUM have been named recipients of 2014 ACM-IEEE-CS George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowships.
Menon (http://charm.cs.uiuc.edu/ Menon received her M.S from UIUC and her B.Tech from the College of Engineering in Trivandrum, India. Prior to joining UIUC, she worked at Google in the area of large-scale distributed systems. Breuer (http://www5.in.tum.de/ In 2012, he and his colleagues established a collaboration between leading experts in computational science and seismology. He and his collaborators received the PRACE ISC Award and an ACM Gordon Bell nomination for their outstanding end-to-end performance reengineering of the SeisSol software package. His research covers optimizations in the entire simulation pipeline. The ACM/IEEE-CS George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowship (http://www.computer.org/ ACM, IEEE Computer Society, and the SC Conference support this award. Fellowship winners are selected each year based on overall potential for research excellence, the degree to which technical interests align with those of the HPC community, academic progress to date, recommendations by their advisor and others, and a demonstration of current and anticipated use of HPC resources. The fellowship includes a $5,000 honorarium, plus travel and registration to receive the award at the annual SC conference. About the IEEE Computer Society IEEE Computer Society is the world's leading computing membership organization and the trusted information and career-development source for a global workforce of technology leaders including: professors, researchers, software engineers, IT professionals, employers, and students. The unmatched source for technology information, inspiration, and collaboration, the IEEE Computer Society is the source that computing professionals trust to provide high-quality, state-of-the- End
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