Manish Parashar

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ACM Distinguished Service Award

USA - 2024

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For service and leadership in furthering the transformative impact of computer and computational science on science and engineering

Dr. Manish Parashar's record of exceptional service to the computing community encompasses outstanding national leadership at the US National Science Foundation (NSF), the US White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and the IEEE Computer Society. 

Parashar has served as Office Director of NSF's Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure from 2018 to 2023 and played a central role in developing and implementing NSF's strategic vision for a National Cyberinfrastructure Ecosystem for 21st-century Science and Engineering. He has co-led key NSF initiatives such as Harnessing the Data Revolution and Open Science and Public Access; co-chaired the congressionally established National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource Task Force; and served on the National Science and Technology Council Subcommittee on Open Science. He has worked toward establishing and enabling democratized access to regional and national cyberinfrastructures for science.

Parashar served two terms as editor in chief of ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems; has led steering, organizing, and programming committees for numerous ACM conferences; and is on the editorial boards of key journals such as ACM Computing Surveys. He is the Founding Chair of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Community on High Performance Computing, and editor in chief of the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (where he established its pioneering reproducibility initiative). He chaired the IEEE Computer Society Ad-Hoc Committee on Open Science and Reproducibility and has held leadership roles in its technical communities (e.g., parallel processing and scalable computing) with a focus on establishing reward structures for early career researchers.

Parashar is awarded for his long-lasting and influential disciplinary contributions, significant and broad interdisciplinary impact, and efforts to broaden research in high-performance parallel and distributed computing and computational sciences.

ACM Fellows

USA - 2020

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For contributions to high-performance parallel and distributed computing and computational science

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ACM Distinguished Member

USA - 2014

ACM Senior Member

USA - 2007

2024 ACM Distinguished Service Award

Manish Parashar, Professor, University of Utah, receives the ACM Distinguished Service Award for service and leadership in furthering the transformative impact of computer and computational science on science and engineering.

Parashar’s record of service includes leadership at the National Science Foundation (NSF), where he developed NSF’s strategic vision for a national cyberinfrastructure, as well as at the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), where he developed the Future Advancement Computing Ecosystem Strategic Plan (FACE). For ACM, Parashar served two terms as editor-in-chief of ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (ACM TAAS), and has led steering, organizing and programming committees for numerous ACM conferences.

2020 ACM Fellows Recognized for Work that Underpins Today’s Computing Innovations

ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, has named 95 members ACM Fellows for wide-ranging and fundamental contributions in areas including artificial intelligence, cloud computing, computer graphics, computational biology, data science, human-computer interaction, software engineering, theoretical computer science, and virtual reality, among other areas. The accomplishments of the 2020 ACM Fellows have driven innovations that ushered in significant improvements across many areas of technology, indus.try, and personal life.

The ACM Fellows program recognizes the top 1% of ACM Members for their outstanding accomplishments in computing and information technology and/or outstanding service to ACM and the larger computing community. Fellows are nominated by their peers, with nominations reviewed by a distinguished selection committee.

"This year our task in selecting the 2020 Fellows was a little more challenging, as we had a record number of nominations from around the world,” explained ACM President Gabriele Kotsis. “The 2020 ACM Fellows have demonstrated excellence across many disciplines of computing. These men and women have made pivotal contributions to technologies that are transforming whole industries, as well as our personal lives. We fully expect that these new ACM Fellows will continue in the vanguard in their respective fields."

Underscoring ACM’s global reach, the 2020 Fellows represent universities, corporations and research centers in Australia, Austria, Canada, China, Germany, Israel, Japan, The Netherlands, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

The contributions of the 2020 Fellows run the gamut of the computing field―including algorithms, networks, computer architecture, robotics, distributed systems, software development, wireless systems, and web science―to name a few.

Additional information about the 2020 ACM Fellows, as well as previously named ACM Fellows, is available through the ACM Fellows site.

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