The IEEE Computer Society’s Awards Committee and the Society’s Board of Governors has selected Dr. Ahmed Louri, professor of computer engineering, to receive the 2020 Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award “For pioneering contributions to the solution of on-chip and off-chip communication problems for parallel computing and manycore architectures.” The award is given for outstanding and innovative contributions to the fields of computer and information science and engineering or computer technology, usually within the past 10, and not more than 15, years. Contributions must have significantly promoted technical progress in the field. The award consists of a certificate and $2,000 honorarium and will be presented to Dr. Louri at the Computer Society’s annual awards dinner and presentation on May 27. More information about the award and a list of past recipients, may be found online.
Dr. Louri is an internationally renowned scholar, known for his pioneering and cutting-edge research in advancing computer performance and tackling society’s grand challenges with an enduring impact on both academia and industry over the last three decades. Dr. Louri has done seminal work on the development of general frameworks for scalable, energy-efficient, high-performance, and reliable communications for parallel computing systems. In particular, he has accomplished fundamental and pioneering work in the critical areas of scalable and reliable multiprocessors and energy-efficient, fault-tolerant and high-performance network-on-chips (NoCs) for multicore and manycore architectures. These systems are the critical engine of our modern information technology society.