# Awards

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Yogesh Simmhan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computational and Data Sciences
at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. His research explores scalable software
platforms, algorithms and applications on distributed systems. These span Cloud and Edge
Computing, Temporal Graph Processing, and Scalable Machine Learning to support emerging Big
Data and Internet of Things (IoT) applications. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed
papers, and won the Best Paper Award at IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing
(CLOUD) 2019, IEEE TCSC SCALE Challenge Award in 2019 and 2012, the Distinguished Paper
award at EuroPar 2018, and the IEEE/ACM Supercomputing HPC Storage Challenge Award in 2008.
He is the recipient of the Swarna Jayanti Fellowship in 2019 and IEEE TCSC Award for
Excellence in Scalable Computing (Mid Career Researcher) in 2020. He is an Associate Editor
of Future Generation Computing System (FGCS), and earlier served as Associate
Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Systems (JPDC), Associate Editor
of IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing and a member of the IEEE Future Directions
Initiative on Big Data.

Yogesh has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Indiana University, Bloomington, and was
previously a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California (USC),
Los Angeles, and a Postdoc at Microsoft Research, San Francisco. He is a Distinguished
Member of ACM, a Distinguished Contributor of the IEEE Computer Society and serves on the
ACM India Executive Council.