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link: https://us-rse.org/usrse25/ link_name: Register Now! - - title: US-RSE Organizational Membership + - title: 2025 Community Awards Winners Announced subtitle: > - Support US-RSE as an organizational member. Join by December 1, 2025 to be a Founding Member. - link: https://us-rse.org/org-membership/ + The four 2025 Community Awards Winners have been announced! + link: 2025-09-04-community-awards-results/ link_name: Learn More diff --git a/_posts/2025-09-04-community-awards-results.md b/_posts/2025-09-04-community-awards-results.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..90619da28 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2025-09-04-community-awards-results.md @@ -0,0 +1,123 @@ +--- +layout: post +title: "2025 Community Award Results" +tags: [community-awards] +posted_by: Miranda Mundt +--- + +## Overview + +The 2025 US-RSE Community Awards recognize and celebrate the impactful +contributions of individuals and teams who are advancing the field of research +software engineering in the United States. + +This year there were two categories of awards: + +- **Technical Excellence**: Recognizes outstanding technical contributions that + materially advance research software engineering practice. This award + celebrates "the things RSEs do that are normally ignored." +- **Community Impact and Leadership**: Honors leadership and service that + amplifies the reach, visibility, and growth of the RSE profession. This + award focuses on people who step beyond their own codebases to promote + belonging, engagement, and awareness. + +Each award also had two subcategories: **Student/Early Career** (current +student or within five years of starting their career) and **Professional**. + +## Winners + +We are pleased to announce this year's winners for our two award categories. +Each winner will receive a certificate as well as a $250 gift card. +Please join us in congratulating our 2025 winners! + +### US-RSE Technical Excellence + +**Student/Early Career: Manoj Sundarrajan** + +Manoj Sundarrajan is a Research Software Engineer in the Vehicle Grid +Integration group at Idaho National Laboratory (INL). He co-led the +development of Caldera, an EV charge modeling toolkit that was a 2023 +R&D 100 finalist. Caldera is utilized by several leading private industry +institutions, research organizations, universities, and national labs. Manoj's +research focuses on developing tools for modeling and simulation of EV +charging on the grid, as well as creating smart charge management solutions to +enhance grid stability and reliability. + +In addition to his role at INL, Manoj is a PhD student in the Systems +Engineering at Colorado State University. Before joining INL in 2020, he +earned his MS degree in Computer Systems Engineering from the University of +Houston and a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from +Anna University, India. + +**Professional: JAWS Team - Daniela Cassol, Mario Melara, Elais Player-Jackson, +Ramani Kothadia, Setareh Sarrafan, Nicholas Tyler** + +JAWS (JGI Analysis Workflow Service) is a scalable, multi-site workflow execution framework +developed at the Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), to support +large-scale genomic data analysis. Designed for robust and secure scientific computing across +national DOE facilities, JAWS empowers researchers to run complex, containerized workflows +seamlessly across the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, Environmental +Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Argonne Leadership +Computing Facility. It integrates Cromwell, HTCondor, and Globus to ensure reproducibility, +portability, and performance monitoring, aligning with the DOE's Integrated Research +Infrastructure vision. + +The JAWS team includes software engineers, data scientists, and user support specialists who +collaboratively develop infrastructure and tools to meet evolving scientific and technical +demands. The team supports production workflows across diverse domains, including +metagenomics, genome assembly, transcriptomics, and annotation. Through continuous user +engagement, strategic partnerships, and open science practices, JAWS contributes to the DOE +scientific mission and energy research. + +JAWS innovations include performance dashboards, support for GPU workloads, and secure +multi-site job orchestration. As leaders in scalable workflow management, the JAWS team is +advancing findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR) workflows and empowers the +scientific community with robust, portable bioinformatics pipelines. + + +### US-RSE Community Impact and Leadership + +**Student/Early Career: Daniel Madren** + +Daniel joined Purdue University in April 2024 as a Senior Research Development +Administrator for the newly established Center for Research Software +Engineering (RSE) within the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC). In +his role as Program Manager for RSE, he leads the design and execution of +strategic project management processes, including intake workflows, service +rate development, and long-term business planning. Daniel plays a pivotal +role in shaping the Center's operational strategy, cultivating cross-functional +collaborations with academic and government stakeholders, and driving +sustainable growth through diversified funding models. Daniel draws on deep +expertise in both predictive and agile methodologies to manage a diverse +portfolio of research projects. He also serves as Co-Chair of the US-RSE +Group Leaders Network, where he supports national coordination and +knowledge-sharing among RSE leaders to advance the research software community. + + +**Professional: Rinku Gupta** + +Rinku Gupta is a Research Software Specialist and Technical Product Manager +with over 20 years of experience in scientific computing. At Argonne National +Laboratory, she leads multi-institutional computing projects and efforts to +improve high-performance scientific software through research and community +engagement. + +Her work focuses on software sustainability, productivity, and fault tolerance +at extreme scale. She has conducted research on DOE-funded efforts including +the IDEAS, BSSw.io, and Argo projects, the VeloC checkpointing library, and +the CESAR co-design center. As product manager for Aurora GPT and BSSw.io, +she coordinates across scientific teams to support large-scale AI models for +science, aligning priorities and fostering collaboration. + +Ms. Gupta is Editor-in-Chief of the Better Scientific Software website +(BSSw.io), a community resource focused on improving software quality and +sustainability in computational science. She is also a recognized leader in +the Research Software Engineer (RSE) movement. She served on the US-RSE +Association Steering Committee (2023–2024) and has helped define and advocate for the +RSE role at Argonne and across the broader HPC community. She has led +lab-wide initiatives, cross-divisional collaboration, and peer networks +supporting RSEs. + +She holds a B.E. in Computer Engineering from Mumbai University and +an M.S. from The Ohio State University. +