Islam will receive the award at SC26, the premier annual conference for high-performance computing, Nov. 15-20 in Chicago. The event draws about 18,000 people from universities, national laboratories, government and major technology companies to share new computing technologies and announce the world’s fastest supercomputers.
Islam directs TXST's Per4ML Laboratory and holds a dual appointment as an associate computational scientist within Brookhaven National Laboratory's Computing and Data Sciences Directorate. Her research has secured more than $5.25 million from the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Advanced Micro Devices and national laboratories.
She also co-founded Bangladeshi Women in Computer Science and Engineering, a research and mentoring platform that supports hundreds of women pursuing graduate education, research opportunities, fellowships and computing careers in Bangladesh and abroad.
Through her fellowship with the DOE’s Sustainable Research Pathways program, Islam has built partnerships with scientists at national laboratories and created research opportunities for graduate and undergraduate students. She has also launched hands-on training programs for future high-performance computing software researchers and held leadership roles at major conferences in the field.
As high-performance computing advances rapidly, its future depends on researchers who can equip the next generation. Through her research, mentorship and partnerships, Islam is preparing scientists and engineers to ask bigger questions and find new ways to answer them.
