We are pleased to announce that Devesh Tiwari of Northeastern University, USA, has been selected to receive the 2026 Jack Dongarra Early Career Award.This award recognizes his contributions to advancing sustainable high performance computing and to developing post-Moore computing systems, including hybrid quantum-classical high performance computing.

The ISC Jack Dongarra Early Career Award has been in place since 2023 to honor an early- to mid-career researcher who has been a catalyst for scientific progress through exceptional work in fields such as HPC, system software, and emerging computing paradigms. The award includes a monetary prize of 5,000 euros, sponsored by ISC Group.

Tiwari was selected for his outstanding contributions to research and mentorship, as well as for his impact on the advanced computing community. His work has advanced emerging areas in HPC, including hybrid quantum-classical systems, environmentally sustainable computing, and system software for large-scale infrastructures. His group has been among the first to implement system-level innovations on real quantum hardware platforms, effectively bridging the gap between theoretical advancements and practical deployment.

Additionally, Tiwari has also made significant contributions to the broader HPC ecosystem by developing open-source software and large-scale datasets that support research across academia and industry. He is widely acknowledged for his commitment to mentoring the next generation of researchers, many of whom have advanced to academic positions at prestigious institutions.

This ISC award commemorates Professor Jack Dongarra’s lifelong contributions to HPC and the global research community. The award recipient was selected by an international committee of experts in the field, led by Professor Michela Taufer, who holds the Jack Dongarra Professorship in High Performance Computing at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Tiwari is currently the Associate Vice Provost for Research Computing and Director of the Goodwill Computing Lab at Northeastern University. He is widely recognized for his leadership and service to the HPC community, including his roles as co-chair of the steering committee for the ACM International Symposium on High Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing and as a member of the ACM/IEEE Supercomputing Conference Steering Committee.

Among his many accolades, Tiwari is the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, the IEEE TCSC Middle Career Researcher Award, and, most recently, the IEEE TCPP Outstanding Service and Contributions Award. In recognition of his teaching and mentoring efforts, he has received the Northeastern College of Engineering Outstanding Teaching Award. He has mentored students who have gone on to receive prestigious honors and faculty positions at leading institutions.

The award will be presented on Wednesday, June 24, at 10:45 a.m. in Hamburg by Jack Dongarra himself, followed by a lecture by Tiwari. His address will be published in Future Generation Computer Systems, a leading peer-reviewed scientific journal. 

ISC 2026 returns to the Congress Center Hamburg from June 22 to June 26 for its 41st edition. Since its inception in 1986, it has been recognized as the world’s oldest and Europe’s most-attended event for HPC, AI, and quantum professionals and organizations interested in performance, energy efficiency, and cost-effectiveness.

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