Memorial and Honorary Fellowships

Ken Kennedy-Cray Inc. Fellowship

Cray

Funded with an endowment by the supercomputer manufacturer Cray Inc., this fellowship of $7,500 is named in honor of the late Ken Kennedy, a Rice computing pioneer who founded the Ken Kennedy Institute at Rice University (formerly the Computer and Information Technology Institute and also known as CITI) and served on Cray’s board of directors.

In 2007, Cray endowed the Ken Kennedy-Cray Inc. Graduate Fellowship Fund with $150,000 gift to help support graduate students with a preference towards high performance computing. "From his pioneering work in FORTRAN optimization to his contributions in parallel programming models, Ken Kennedy helped shape the way we view HPC software today,” said Peter Ungaro, president and CEO of Cray. “It’s critical that his important work in these areas is continued. We are honored that Cray is able to help advance HPC in this way.”

Past Recipients:

2022/2023

  • Guanchu Wang, Computer Science

2021/2022

  • Morgan Underwood, Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences

2020/2021

  • Boning Li, Electrical and Computer Engineering

2019/2020

  • Nidish Narayanaa Balaji, Mechanical Engineering

2018/2019

  • Philip Taffet, Computer Science

2017/2018

  • Jeffrey Dudek, Computer Science

2016/2017

  • Yabin Zhang, Computational and Applied Mathematics

2015/2016

  • Maurice Fabien, Computationa and Applied Mathematics

2014/2015

  • Shanguy Luo, Computer Science

2013/2014

  • Ellis Giles, Electrical and Computer Engineering

2012/2013

  • Yiting Xia, Computer Science

2011/2012

  • Yenny Chandra, Civil and Environmental Engineering

2010/2011

  • Saifon Chaturantabut, Computational and Applied Mathematics

2009/2010

  • Igor Terentyev, Computational and Applied Mathematics

2008/2009

  • Arta Sadrzadeh, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

2007/2008

  • Mack Joyner, Computer Science
VISIT


The Rice Ken Kennedy Institute is located on the campus of Rice University inside Duncan Hall. Click the map below for directions.

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CONTACT


Rice University
Ken Kennedy Institute
6100 Main Street, MS39
Houston, Texas 77005

CONNECT


Phone: 713-348-5823
Email: kenkennedy@rice.edu


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