Gurindar (Guri) Sohi
IEEE CS Computer Pioneer in Honor of the Women of ENIAC Award
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2025 IEEE Computer Society Award Recipients
We honor the recipients of our technical, education, and service awards.
Major Award Recipients Presented at the Annual IEEE Computer Society Awards Ceremony
Each year, the IEEE Computer Society (CS) presents its major achievement awards to the brightest professionals and scientists in the field of computer science and computer engineering. Awardees are nominated by their peers for their outstanding discoveries and contributions.
This year awards ceremony will take place in conjunction with the IEEE Computer Society Board of Governors meeting on Thursday, 13 November in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
Moshe Y. Vardi
IEEE CS Computer Pioneer in Honor of the Women of ENIAC Award
Onur Mutlu
Harry H. Goode Memorial Award
Raghu Meka
W. Wallace McDowell Award
Vipin Kumar
Taylor L. Booth Education Award
Roshan Ragel
University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
Yonghong Tian
Hans Karlsson Standards Award
Hai Li
Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award
Jiebo Luo
Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award
Anand Raghunathan
Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award
Major Award Recipients Presented at Co-Sponsored IEEE Conferences
André Seznec
Eckert-Mauchly Award
Srinivas Aluru
Charles Babbage Award
Bashar Nuseibeh
Harlan D. Mills Award
Antonio Gonzalez
B. Ramakrishna Rau Award
Saman Amarasinghe
Ken Kennedy Award
2025 IEEE CS Computer Pioneer in Honor of the Women of ENIAC Award
Dr. Gurindar (Guri) Sohi, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“For contributions to the microarchitecture of instruction-level parallel processors and his impact on the computer architecture community.”
Dr. Moshe Y. Vardi, Rice University
“For contributions to the development of logic as a unifying foundational framework and a tool for modeling computational systems.”
About the Award
The Computer Pioneer was established in 1981 by the Board of Governors of the IEEE Computer Society to recognize and honor the vision of those people whose efforts resulted in the creation or expansion and continued vitality of the computer industry. The award is presented to outstanding individuals whose main contribution to the concepts and development of the computer field was made at least fifteen years earlier.
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2025 Harry H. Goode Memorial Award
Prof. Onur Mutlu, ETH Zurich
“For seminal contributions to computer architecture research and practice, especially in memory systems.”
About the Award
The Harry H. Goode award is given on the basis of achievements in the information processing field which are considered either a single contribution of theory, design, or technique of outstanding significance, or the accumulation of important contributions on theory or practice over an extended time period, the total of which represent an outstanding contribution.
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2025 W. Wallace McDowell Award
Prof. Raghu Meka, UCLA
“For contributions to complexity theory, pseudo randomness, communication complexity, and for establishing new connections between computer science and combinatorics, probability theory.”
About the Award
The W. Wallace McDowell award is given for outstanding recent theoretical, design, educational, practical, or other similar innovative contributions that fall within the scope of IEEE Computer Society interest.
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2025 Taylor L. Booth Education Award
Prof. Vipin Kumar, University of Minnesota
“For contributions to Computational Science and Engineering through his foundational textbooks, outstanding mentoring and exceptional scientific leadership.”
About the Award
The Taylor L. Booth Education award is given for an outstanding record in computer science and engineering education.
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2025 Mary Kenneth Keller Computer Science and Engineering Undergraduate Teaching Award
Prof. Vipin Kumar, University of Minnesota
“For outstanding contributions to undergraduate education through innovative teaching, impactful research, and dedicated service, fostering an inclusive community of experiential mentorship for undergraduates in Sri Lanka.”
About the Award
The Mary Kenneth Keller Computer Science & Engineering Undergraduate Teaching award is given for outstanding contributions to undergraduate education through teaching and service, and for helping to maintain interest in the field and make a statement about the importance with which the IEEE Computer Society views undergraduate education.
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2025 Hans Karlsson Standards Award
Prof. Yonghong Tian, Peking University, China
“For exceptional leadership in developing IEEE standards on AI model representation and visual data coding.”
About the Award
The Hans Karlsson Standards award is given in recognition of outstanding skills and dedication to diplomacy, team facilitation and joint achievement, in the development or promotion of standards in the computer industry where individual aspirations, corporate competition, and organizational rivalry could otherwise be counter to the benefit of society. Eligibility is limited to present or past participants in IEEE CS Standards activities.
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2025 Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award
Prof. Hai Li, Duke University
“For contributions to neuromorphic computing and deep-learning acceleration.”
Prof. Jiebo Luo, University of Rochester
“For sustained contributions to computer vision and multimedia computing technologies.”
Prof. Anand Raghunathan, Purdue University
“For pioneering contributions to the field of approximate computing and its application to the design of hardware for artificial intelligence.”
About the Award
The technical achievement award is given for outstanding and innovative contributions to the fields of computer and information science and engineering or computer technology, usually within the past 10, and not more than 15 years.
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Recipients of Major Awards Presented at Co-Sponsored IEEE Conferences
Prof. André Seznec, SiFive
2025 Eckert-Mauchly Award Recipient
ISCA 2025 – June 24, 2025 – Tokyo, Japan
Tech News: Seznec is recognized for seminal work in branch prediction and cache memories
Prof. Srinivas Aluru, Georgia Institute of Technology
2025 Charles Babbage Award Recipient
IPDPS 2025 – June 3-7, 2025 – Milano, Italy
Tech News: Insights into an Award-Winning Career
Prof. Bashar Nuseibeh, The Open University, UK
Prof. Antonio Gonzalez, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
2025 B. Ramakrishna Rau Award Recipient MICRO-58 – October 18-22, 2025 – Seoul, Korea
UPC – Department of Computer Architecture
Prof. Saman Amarasinghe, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Mr. John Shalf, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
2025 Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award Recipient
