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.”
HPE acquired Cray Inc. in 2019. View the press release here.
Past Recipients:
2024/2025
- Catherine He, Computer Science
- Arnold Kazadi, Computer Science
- Nicolas Zilberstein, Electrical and Computer Engineering
2023/2024
- Anja Conev, Computer Science
- Edward Duc Hien Nguyen, Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Carlos Taveras, Electrical and Computer Engineering
2022/2023
- Guanchu Wang, Computer Science
2021/2022
- Morgan Underwood, Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences
2020/2021
- Boning Li, Electrical & 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 & Applied Mathematics
2015/2016
- Maurice Fabien, Computational & 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 & Environmental Engineering
2010/2011
- Saifon Chaturantabut, Computational & Applied Mathematics
2009/2010
- Igor Terentyev, Computational & Applied Mathematics
2008/2009
- Arta Sadrzadeh, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
2007/2008
- Mack Joyner, Computer Science
