Selection of Awards and Honors
A full & up-to-date award list is usually in the CV [direct link].
(2023) IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing (Early Career).
The IEEE TCSC (Technical Committee on Scalable Computing) Award (...) recognizes up to 5 individuals who
have made outstanding, influential, and potentially long-lasting contributions in the field of scalable computing.
"For contributions to graph machine learning and graph processing that enable simultaneous achievement of
scalability, high performance, and high productivity."
(2023) Best Paper Finalist at ACM/IEEE Supercomputing'23 (SC23).
(for a paper "The Graph Database Interface: Scaling Transactional and Analytical Graph Workloads to Hundreds of Thousands of Cores").
(2022) Best Paper Award at ACM/IEEE Supercomputing'22 (SC22).
(for a paper "ProbGraph: High-Performance and High-Accuracy Graph Mining with Probabilistic Set
Representations").
(2022) Best Paper Finalist at ACM/IEEE Supercomputing'22 (SC22).
(for a paper "Building Blocks for Network-Accelerated Distributed File Systems").
(2022) Fellow of The Explorers Club
The Explorers Club is an international multidisciplinary professional society focusing on
scientific exploration, field research and Earth sciences, and resource conservation. People forming The Explorers
Club are scientists and entrepreneurs dedicated to exploration, such as Robert
Ballard, Elon Musk, Neil Armstrong, Sylvia Earle, or Kathryn D. Sullivan. Past
members include Fridtjof Nansen, Sir Edmund Hillary, Thor Heyerdahl, or Roald Amundsen.
[Link]
(2022) ACM SIGHPC Doctoral Dissertation Award
Selected by the ACM SIGHPC as the best doctoral dissertation in High-Performance Computing worldwide, "for
outstanding contributions that demonstrate how to simultaneously achieve high performance, large scale,
and programmability in highly challenging and relevant irregular computations"
Press release
(2022) SPEC Kaivalya Dixit Distinguished Dissertation Award
Selected by the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. "The SPEC Kaivalya Dixit Distinguished
Dissertation Award aims to recognize outstanding doctoral dissertations in the field of computer benchmarking,
performance evaluation, and experimental system analysis in general."
(2021) IEEE TCSC Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award
Selected by the IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) as the best doctoral dissertation in scalable computing worldwide.
"The IEEE TCSC Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award is an annual award to recognize candidates that (...) have
written an outstanding PhD dissertation in the field of the scalable computing with applications. This award
is established to encourage doctoral research that combines theory and practice or makes in-depth technical
contributions."
(2021) ETH Medal
"for an outstanding doctoral thesis"[ link1 ]
(2020) Invited Paper (to ACM TRETS, Special Issue)
(2019) Best Paper Finalist & Best Student Paper Finalist at ACM/IEEE Supercomputing'19 (SC19).
(paper "Slim Graph: Practical Lossy Graph Compression for Approximate Graph Processing, Storage, and Analytics").
(2019) Best Student Paper Award & Best Paper Finalist at ACM/IEEE Supercomputing'19 (SC19).
(paper "Red-Blue Pebbling Revisited: Near Optimal Parallel Matrix Multiplication").
(2019) Best Paper Finalist at ACM FPGA'19.
(2018) HiPEAC Paper Award.
awarded by the HiPEAC Steering Committee
(2018) ACM Research Highlights.
Paper published in the Communications of the ACM Research Highlights.
(2016) Karsten Schwan Best Paper Award at ACM HPDC'16. [ link1 ]
(2015) ACM/IEEE-CS George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowship. [ link1, link2, link3 ]
"The fellowship honors exceptional PhD students throughout the world whose research focus areas are in
high-performance computing, networking, storage, and large-scale data analysis."
(2015) Best Paper Award at ACM FCRC/HPDC'15. [ link1 ]
(2014) Best Student Paper Award at ACM/IEEE Supercomputing'14 (SC14). [ link1, link2, link3, link4 ]
(2014) Best Paper Finalist at ACM HPDC'14. [ link1 ]
(2014) ACM Student Travel Award to HPDC'14.
(2013) Best Paper Award at ACM/IEEE Supercomputing'13 (SC13). [ link1, link2, link3 ]
(2013) Google European Doctoral Fellowship. [ link1, link2, link3 ]
The first Google Fellowship in Parallel Computing. "Google Fellowship students are a select group recognized
by Google researchers and their institutions as some of the most promising young academics in the world."
(2012) Distinguished MSc Thesis Award ("AGH Diamonds"),
"for an outstanding MSc thesis"
(2012) Best Student of Poland. [ link1, link2 (PL) ]
Winner of the national competition "Student Nobel prize" for the Best Student of Poland.
(2010) Polish Education Minister’s Scholarship.
National-level scholarship, awarded for outstanding academic achievements (for 2010/2011 academic year).
(2010) "Sapere Auso" Academic Scholarship.
Regional-level scholarship, awarded for outstanding academic achievements (for 2010/2011 academic year).
(2009) Polish Education Minister’s Scholarship.
National-level scholarship, awarded for outstanding academic achievements (for 2009/2010 academic year).
(2009) "Sapere Auso" Academic Scholarship.
Regional-level scholarship, awarded for outstanding academic achievements (for 2009/2010 academic year).
(2006) National Mathematical Competition.
Winner of a national-level mathematical competition.
(2005) Polish Prime Minister’s Scholarship.
National-level scholarship, awarded for outstanding education achievements.