Funded with an endowment by the supercomputer manufacturer Cray Inc., this fellowship 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.
Cray endows the HPC graduate fellowships in honor of the late Ken Kennedy.
Past Recipients:
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
