Prize History

Citation

The 2025 SIAM/ACM Prize in Computational Science and Engineering is awarded to the Principal Authors of the deal.II Project for their highly impactful library supporting finite element calculations. The software achieved a very high standard of software quality and modularity by providing packaged algorithms and data structures in a comprehensive and well-documented manner that enables and elevates whole communities to achieve more computationally advanced models than they could possibly otherwise.

Selection Committee

• Xiao-Chuan Cai (Chair)
• Lorena Barba
• Olaf Schenk

Citation

The 2023 SIAM/ACM Prize in Computational Science and Engineering is awarded to the SUNDIALS core development team for innovative research and development of nonlinear and differential/algebraic equation solvers for high-performance computing that provides unique, critical capabilities in the scientific software ecosystem.

Selection Committee

• Robert Schnabel (Chair)
• Xiao-Chuan Cai
• Ulrike Meier Yang

Citation

The 2021 SIAM/ACM Prize in Computational Science and Engineering is awarded to George Karniadakis for advancing spectral elements, reduced-order modeling, uncertainty quantification, dissipative particle dynamics, fractional PDEs, and scientific machine learning, while pushing applications to extreme computational scales and mentoring many leaders.

Selection Committee

• David Keyes (Chair)
• Lois McInnes
• Robert Schnabel

Citation

The 2019 SIAM/ACM Prize in Computational Science and Engineering is awarded to Jack Dongarra for his key role in the development of software and software standards, software repositories, performance and benchmarking software, and in community efforts to prepare for the challenges of exascale computing, especially in adapting linear algebra infrastructure to emerging architectures.

Selection Committee

• Linda Petzold (Chair)
• Geoffrey Fox
• David E. Keyes

Citation

The 2017 SIAM/ACM Prize in Computational Science and Engineering is awarded to Thomas J.R. Hughes for pioneering finite element methods to solve PDEs that are used world-wide in engineering design and simulation, and science.

Selection Committee

• James Demmel (Chair)
• Nick Gould
• Linda Petzold

Selection Committee

• Carol S. Woodward (Chair)
• James W. Demmel
• Volker H. Schulz

Selection Committee

• Christopher R. Johnson (Chair)
• Chandu Thekkath
• Carol S. Woodward

Selection Committee

• Richard J. Hanson (Chair)
• Christopher R. Johnson
• Barbara Wohlmuth

Selection Committee

• Mary Fanett Wheeler (Chair)
• Richard J. Hanson
• James M. Hyman

Selection Committee

• John B. Bell (Chair)
• Anthony Ralston
• Mary Fanett Wheeler

2005 Achl Brandt

Selection Committee

• Wayne H. Enright (Chair)
• John B. Bell
• Steve McCormick

2003 John B. Bell and Phillip Colella

Selection Committee

• Linda R. Petzold (Chair)
• Wayne H. Enright
• David S. Wehrly