Awards

“Efficient scheduling to minimize calibrations”
“Optimization-based modeling – a new strategy for predictive simulations. Part 1”
2011 National Nuclear Security Administration Defense Programs Award of Excellence
2017 Defense Programs Award of Excellence

Trinity High Performance Computing Team for significant contributions to the Stockpile Stewardship Program

 A Locally Conservative, Discontinuous Least-squares Finite Element for the Stokes Equations

Presented at special session on "Advances in locally mass conservative discretizations for fluid flows"

 Additive Decomposition of Multiphysics Problems
Adult Hippocampal Neurogenesis: Memory Resolution, Pattern Separation, or Both?
Adult Hippocampal Neurogenesis: Memory Resolution, Pattern Separation, or Both?
Advisory Board Membership: National Research Council of the National Academies Standing Committee on Operational Science & Technology Option for Defeating IEDs
Ann has led, unified and improved national-level Transportation Security Administration (TSA) field research to improve aviation security processes and TSA officer performance.
Applications of Mathematics Colloquium
Are New Neurons in Humans Important? How Scale Affects Neurogenesis Function
Award for Excellence

For educating the next generation of computational scientists through teaching at UNM

 Award for excellence

For outstanding team effort on an industrial CRADA project

 Backfilling with guarantees granted upon job submission
Best Paper Award
Best Paper Award, “The Impact of Periodic Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 on Jupiter”
Best Paper finalist
Best Paper of 2019
Best Paper, 20th High Performance Computing Symposium
Best Poster
Best Student Paper Award: “Characterizing and Mitigating Work Time Inflation in Task Parallel Programs”
Best Student Paper, The 10th LCI International Conference on High-Performance Clustered Computing
Braess-Like Paradox on a Bipartite Exchange Network: More Connections are Not Always Better
Braess-like paradoxes on a bipartite exchange network: More connections are not always better
Breakout group co-leader
Chair of the SIAM Professional Development Working Group
Champion of Graph Challenge

Fastest triangle counting algorithm

 Champion of Graph Challenge

Fastest triangle counting algorithm.

 Computational Function of Adult Neurogenesis in the Dentate Gyrus
Compute Process Allocator (CPA)
Copyrighted and Open Sourced N2A Software
Defense Programs Award of Excellence
Defense Programs Award of Excellence, Exceptional Achievement

Astra, first petascale Arm Supercomputer

 DOE Early Career Award Panel

ASCR

 E.O. Lawrence Award

For pioneering theoretical and practical advances in numerical methods for partial differential equations (PDEs), which includes the invention of new algorithms, the rigorous mathematical analysis of algorithms and of the mathematical models to which they apply, the implementation of computational algorithms for solving applications problems of general interest that are also of particular relevance to Department of Energy missions, and the development of production software.

 Early Career Principal Investigator Panel
Editor for Recent Advances in Algorithmic Differentiation
Editor in chief, SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis
Editor-in-Chief, SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis
Emerging Leaders 2022
Employee Recognition Award

Team award for Enceladus: Quantum Computer Benchmarking

 Employee Recognition Award Nomination

Nomination for Individual Exceptional Service

 Employee Recognition Team Award

For the dedicated and sustained effort required to bring up the Cielo computer platform and complete acceptance testing within schedule

 Enabling Power Measurement and Control on Astra: The First Petascale Arm Supercomputer

Cray Users’ Group Annual Technical Conference (CUG’20)

 ERA Award – Astra Supercomputer Team

The Astra Supercomputer Team procured the world’s largest high-performance computing system based on the Arm processor, working on a very aggressive schedule to obtain Sandia’s fastest computer, meeting several important programmatic and technical milestones.

 Exascale Research Conference
Excellence in Technology Transfer

Red Storm Massively Parallel Processor

 Excellence in Technology Transfer Award
External referee for a PhD thesis
FAIR DEAL Grand Challenge LDRD Project

Sandia National Laboratories, Team A – INNOVATION, Divisions ESD – 5000

 Fairness of Job Scheduling in Cplant
Fellow of the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)

2012 Class of SIAM Fellows

 Gauss Award

This award is assigned to the most outstanding paper in the field of scalable supercomputing accepted to ISC HPC

 Guest editor: special issue on “Physics-compatible numerical methods”

Other guest editors for this issue: Remi Abgrall (University of Bordeaux and INRIA), Jason Frank (CWI and University of Amsterdam), Barry Koren (CWI and Leiden University, managing guest editor), Blair Perot (University of Massachusetts Amherst).

 Honorable Mention for Notable Technology Development: DAKOTA Software
Individual Performance Award
John von Neumann Fellowship

The John von Neumann Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Computational Science offers an exceptional opportunity to conduct innovative research in computational mathematics and scientific computing on advanced computing architectures. As members of either the Computing Research Center at Sandia/New Mexico or the Computer Sciences and Information Systems Center at Sandia/California, von Neumann Fellows apply their research findings to a broad range of science and engineering problems of national importance.

 Kitten Operating System Virtualization Team
Kitten Virtualization Team

"For demonstrating the viability of virtual machine technology for HPC applications at a scale two orders of magnitude beyond any previous study"

 Least-squares methods for geosciences

SIAM Annual Meeting

 Least-squares methods for PDEs: a fair and balanced perspective

Tutorial given at the IMA workshop on "Numerical solution of PDEs: novel discretization techniques"

 Mathematical and Computational Tools for Predictive Simulation of Complex Coupled Systems Under Uncertainty
Member of the international scientific committee

Sozopol, Bulgaria

 Member of the organizing committee

Office of Science, DOE

 Member of the Program Committee
Membership: National Research Council Standing Committee on Operational Science and Technology Options for Defeating Improvised Explosive Devices
Mimetic Discrete Models with Weak Material Laws, or Least Squares Methods Revisited
Mimetic discretizations and what they can do for you
Minisymposium Organizer
Monotone, Bound Preserving Transport and Remap
National Advisory Board for the Applied and Computational Mathematics Emphasis

https://acme.byu.edu

 National Research Council of the National Academies study on Making the Soldier Decisive on the Future Battlefield
New Experimental Results in Communication-Aware Processor Allocation for Supercomputers
NNSA Environmental Stewardship Award Recipient
NOVA Award

Red Storm Design and Development Team

 Numerical PDE’s review panel

Division of Mathematical Sciences

 Optimization-based computational modeling

Invited talk at the IMA workshop on "Numerical solution of PDEs: novel discretization techniques"

 Optimization-based computational modeling, or how to achieve better predictiveness with less complexity
Optimization-Based Computational Modeling, or How toAchieve Better Predictiveness with Less Complexity

Plenary presentation.

 Optimization-based computational models, or how to let someone else do the hard work

Workshop on “Non-standard numerical methods for PDE’s”, Pavia,Italy

 Optimization-Based Decomposition of Multiphysics Problems with Applications to Solver Design

Presented at special session on "Solution Algorithms for Multiple-Component Constrained Partial Differential Equations"

 Optimization-based modeling with applications to transport. Part 2. Optimization algorithm
Optimization-based modeling with applications to transport. Part 3. Implementation and computational studies
Organizers of a minisimposium on “Nonstandard methods and tools for computational modeling”

Minisimposium comprised of 3 parts.

 Organizers of special session on “Advanced methods for transport”
Organizers of special session on “Advances in solution methods for challenging multiphysics systems”
Outside Examiner
Parallel Job Scheduling Policies to Improve Fairness: A Case Study
Patriotic Civilian Service

For 3.5 years of participation on the National Research Council (of the National Academies) Standing Advisory Board for the Joint IED Defeat Organization.

 PhD Thesis Committee
Poster Committee Member
Primary Program Committee
PRISMS: PRedictive Integrated Structural Materials Science

Invited to be on the External Advisory Board for this DOE-BES Software Innovation Center

 Program Committee
Public Good Innovator Award
R&D 100 Award

Mantevo Suite 1.0

 R&D 100 Award

Sandia was a member of CASL (Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors), whose researchers received an award for Virtual Environment for Reactor Applications (VERA). VERA is a suite of coupled physics simulation tools that model the internal processes of commercial nuclear fission power plants and predict reactor behavior in a number of potential scenarios.

 R&D 100 Award

One of the 100 Most Technologically Significant New Products of the Year

 R&D 100 Award – Power API
R&D 100 Award for VERA: Virtual Environment for Reactor Applications
R&D 100 Award, Salvo – Seismic Imaging Software
R&D 100 Special Recognition: Corporate Social Responsibility – Power API
Recognized at D1K Tier Board

Susan Seestrom, Recognized for https://www.nature.com/articles/s42005-021-00705-1

 Reviewer
Revisiting a Model: Continually Reassessing the Computational Role of Adult Neurogenesis
Sandia Meritorious Achievement Award

Red Storm Design, Development and Deployment Team

 Sandia Meritorious Achievement Award

TeraFLOP Computer Installation Team

 SBIR Award Panel
SBIR/STTR Programs Review Panel
Senior Member
Senior Member
Senior Member

Senior Member is the highest professional grade of the IEEE for which a member may apply. It requires experience, and reflects professional accomplishment and maturity. Only 8% of IEEE 416,000 members have achieved this level.

 Session Organizer
Simulation and Optimization of HPC Job Allocation for Jointly Reducing Communication and Cooling Costs
Small Data Centers and Grid Computing Panel
Solving PDEs with Intrepid
SPOT Award

"For outstanding work in leading the development of Prism and providing training in its use."

 Subgraph isomorphism in a multithreaded shared memory architecture
Task mapping for non-contiguous allocations
Task Mapping Stencil Computations for Non-Contiguous Allocations
Team Employee Recognition Award

For demonstrated success in transforming Dakota to a production computational tool in support of Sandia’s core NW mission and a growing external customer base

 Team Employee Recognition Award, QCAD
Technical Program Committee
Translating new neurons from mice to humans: the computational neuroscience of scale
Uncertainty Quantification Challenges in High-Performance Scientific Computing

Mini-tutorial

 Unveiling the Interplay Between Global Link Arrangements and Network Management Algorithms on Dragonfly Networks
US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium Invitee

Nominated to be one of ~100 young engineers to participate in a multi-day symposium on emerging topics in engineering. https://www.naefrontiers.org/Symposia/USFOE/USFOE-PastSymposia/54726.aspx

 Workshop on Advanced Computational Engineering, Oberwolfach, Germany
Workshop on Mathematical Theory and Computational Methods for Multiscale Problems
Zoltan2: Exploiting Geometric Partitioning in Task Mapping for Parallel Computers