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SIGMICRO Service Award/Dissertation Award/Early Career Award Winners for 2026

November 7, 2026

SIGMICRO Distinguished Service Award
SIGMICRO Dissertation Award
SIGMICRO Early Career Award

Congratulations to the 2026 awardees for their sustained service, impactful dissertation research, and early-career excellence across the SIGMICRO community!

  • Lieven Eeckhout, 2026 SIGMICRO Distinguished Service Award
    For extraordinary leadership and community service in quantity and quality.
  • Rahul Bera, 2026 SIGMICRO Dissertation Award
    For Mitigating the Memory Bottleneck with Machine Learning-Driven and Data-Aware Microarchitectural Techniques.
  • Swamit Tannu, 2026 SIGMICRO Early Career Award
    For broad work in compilers, control systems, and error correction – establishing quantum computing as an area of computer architecture research.
  • Divya Mahajan, 2026 SIGMICRO Early Career Award (Honorable Mention)
    For broad and foundational work on the design of efficient AI accelerators and data center systems, and that work's impact on production AI infrastructure.

Read more about the Distinguished Service Award, Dissertation Award, and Early Career Award.