August 27, 2025 –
Jon Calhoun, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and recent CU Computer Engineering master’s graduate Emily Lattanzio have won the Outstanding Paper Award from the IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing (HPEC) conference for their paper, “Performance Analysis of Inline Compression in pySDC,” Emily Lattanzio (CU), Sansriti Ranjan (Siemens EDA), Robert Underwood (Argonne National Laboratory), Thomas Baumann, Robert Speck (Jülich Supercomputing Centre), Jon C. Calhoun (CU). The Outstanding Paper Award is awarded to those papers among the top 5% of papers submitted to the conference, and are now candidates for the Best Paper Award. CU Computer Engineering alum Sansriti Ranjan (BS, Master’s) was also a co-author on the paper.
The IEEE HPEC conference, organized by MIT and SIAM, is the largest computing conference in New England and is the premier conference in the world on the convergence of High Performance and Embedded Computing. The conference, held virtually September 15-19, features over 150 presentations, with 30+ talks on AI. For more information and registration for the free conference, visit https://ieee-hpec.org/ .
