Franck Cappello

Franck Cappello is a French and American computer scientist, working at Argonne National Laboratory.[1]

He was awarded the IEEE Computer Society Charles Babbage Award in 2024,[2] and named as an ACM Fellow in 2025, "for contributions to parallel/distributed computing, resilience, and scientific data reduction"[3] and IEEE Fellow, class of 2017 "for contributions to high-performance computing, fault tolerance, and grid-based computing".[4]

He also received other multiple awards:

  • For Scientific & Leadership Recognitions:
    • Secretary of DOE Honor's Award, 2024
    • Europar Achievement Award, 2024
    • ACM HPDC Achievement Award, for pioneering contributions in methods, tools, and testbeds for resilient high performance parallel and distributed computing, 2022
    • IEEE TC Award for Editorial Service and Excellence, 2021
    • IEEE TCPP Outstanding Service and Contribution Award, 2018
  • Technical Software Recognitions:
    • R&D 100 Award - SZ: A Lossy Compression Framework for Scientific Data, 2021
    • R&D 100 Award - Scalable Checkpoint/Restart, 2019

References

  1. ^ "Franck Cappello". anl.gov. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
  2. ^ "Franck Capello". computer.org. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
  3. ^ "Excellence and Impact Recognized by World's Preeminent Computing Society: Association for Computing Machinery Selects 71 Professionals for Outstanding Achievements". ACM. January 21, 2026. Retrieved 2026-01-09.
  4. ^ "IEEE Computer Society Members Elevated to Fellow for 2017:Sixty IEEE Computer Society members and 11 IEEE members evaluated by the CS Fellow Evaluation Committee will be elevated to IEEE Fellow grade in 2017". IEEE. 2026.