ACM-W would like to announce Dr. Vivienne Sze as the winner of the inaugural ACM-W Rising Star Award. The ACM-W Rising Star Award recognizes a woman whose early-career research has had a significant impact on the computing discipline.  Dr. Sze will receive a framed certificate and $1,000 stipend. ACM-W would like to thank Dr. Andrea Goldsmith for her donation, which was used to establish this award.

Dr. Sze is an Associate Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department. Dr. Sze develops new techniques that bridge algorithm and hardware design, enabling designs optimized across multiple layers of abstraction for greatly improved performance. Her efforts focus on algorithms, circuits, and systems for a broad set of applications, including machine learning, computer vision, robotics, image processing, and video coding. Examples of her groundbreaking work include customized accelerators that provide substantial power reduction in computer vision and deep learning applications and new video coding algorithms that provide order-of-magnitude throughput improvements.

Dr. Sze is widely recognized and has received many awards, including the AFOSR and DARPA Young Faculty Award, faculty awards from Google, Facebook, and Qualcomm, the Edgerton Faculty Award, the 2018 Symposium on VLSI Circuits Best Student Paper Award, the 2017 CICC Outstanding Invited Paper Award, and the 2016 IEEE Micro Top Picks Award. She received the Jin-Au Kong Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Prize in electrical engineering at MIT in 2011. From September 2010 to July 2013, she was a Member of Technical Staff in the Systems and Applications R&D Center at Texas Instruments (TI), Dallas, TX, where she designed low-power algorithms and architectures for video coding. She also represented TI in the JCT-VC committee of ITU-T and ISO/IEC standards body during the development of High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), which received a Primetime Engineering Emmy Award.

The ACM-W President Dr. Jodi Tims will be presenting the award (pending logistics) to Dr. Sze at the International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA 2020) in Valencia, Spain. We would like to congratulate Dr. Sze on her early career success and contributions to the field of computing!

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