BenchCouncil: International Open Benchmark Council

BenchCouncil Awards

The BenchConcil award committees consist of the BenchCouncil steering committee members and the BenchCouncil Fellows.

Each year, BenchCouncil will present the BenchCouncil Achievement Award (3000$), the BenchCouncil Rising Star Award (1000$), and the BenchCouncil Best Paper Award (1000$), and the BenchCouncil Award for Excellence for Reproducible Research.

We welcome the industry leaders as sponsors to provide the honorariums for the following awards.

• BenchCouncil Achievement Award

This award recognizes a senior member who has made long-term contributions to benchmarking, measuring, and optimizing. The winner is eligible for BenchCouncil Fellow. ($3000)

• BenchCouncil Rising Star Award

This award recognizes a junior member who demonstrates outstanding potential for research and practice in benchmarking, measuring, and optimizing. ($1000)

• BenchCouncil Best paper award

This award recognizes a paper presented at the Bench conferences, which demonstrates potential impact on research and practice in benchmarking, measuring, and optimizing. ($1000)

• BenchCouncil Award for Excellence for Reproducible Research

BenchCouncil incubates benchmark projects and hosts the BenchCouncil benchmark projects, and further encourages reliable and reproducible research using the BenchCouncil benchmarks. We present the BenchCouncil Award for Excellence for Reproducible Research to the papers related with those projects. (Each paper $100 prize, maximally up to 100 papers per year)

BenchCouncil Achievement Awards

• 2020 BenchCouncil Achievement Award
  • Professor David J. Lilja honored with 2020 BenchCouncil Achievement Award
  • 2020 Award Committee
    • Prof. D. K. Panda, the Ohio State University
    • Prof. Lizy Kurian John, the University of Texas at Austin
    • Prof. Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University
    • Prof. Jianfeng Zhan, ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
    • Prof. Tony Hey, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory STFC (Since 2020)


• 2019 BenchCouncil Achievement Award
  • Prof. Dr. Tony Hey honored with 2019 BenchCouncil Achievement Award
  • 2019 Award Committee
    • Prof. D. K. Panda, the Ohio State University
    • Prof. Lizy Kurian John, the University of Texas at Austin
    • Prof. Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University
    • Prof. Jianfeng Zhan, ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

BenchCouncil Rising Star Awards

• 2020 BenchCouncil Rising Star Award
  • Professor Torsten Hoefler honored with 2020 BenchCouncil Rising Star Award
  • 2020 Award Committee
    • Prof. D. K. Panda, the Ohio State University
    • Prof. Lizy Kurian John, the University of Texas at Austin
    • Prof. Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University
    • Prof. Jianfeng Zhan, ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

BenchCouncil Best Paper Awards

• BenchCouncil Bench'20 Best Paper Award Recipients

• Characterizing the Sharing Behavior of Applications using Software Transactional Memory
  Douglas Pereira Pasqualin (Universidade Federal de Pelotas), Matthias Diener (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), André Rauber Du Bois (Universidade Federal de Pelotas) and Mauricio Lima Pilla (Universidade Federal de Pelotas)
• swRodinia: A Benchmark Suite for Exploiting Architecture Properties of Sunway Processor
  Bangduo Chen (Beihang University), Mingzhen Li (Beihang University), Hailong Yang (Beihang University), Zhongzhi Luan (Beihang University), Lin Gan (Tsinghua University), Guangwen Yang (Tsinghua University) and Depei Qian (Beihang University)

• BenchCouncil Bench'19 Best Paper Award Recipients

• Performance Analysis of GPU Programming Models using the Roofline Scaling Trajectories
  Khaled Ibrahim, Samuel Williams and Leonid Oliker (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Researchers Won BenchCouncil Bench'19 Best Paper Award)

• 2019 AI Challenge Award Recipients

  • RISC-V Track First Prize: Jiageng Yu, Yuxia Miao, Yang Tai (Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
  • RISC-V Track Second Prize: Yangyang Kong (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
  • Cambricon Track First Prize: Guangli Li, Xueying Wang, Xiu Ma (ICT, CAS)
  • Cambricon Track Second Prize: Zihan Jiang, Jiansong Li (ICT, CAS)
  • Cambricon Track Second Prize: Yifan Wang, Chen Zeng, Chundian Li (ICT, CAS)
  • Cambricon Track Third Prize: Peng He, Ge Chen, Kai Deng ((ICT, CAS))
  • X86 Track First Prize: Weixin Deng, Jing Wang, Pengyu Wang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
  • X86 Track Second Prize: Tianshu Hao (ICT, CAS), Ziping Zheng (Google)
  • X86 Track Second Prize: Maosen Chen (360), Qianyun Chen (Georgia Institute of Technology), Tun Chen (ICT, CAS)
  • X86 Track Third Prize: Yi Liang, Shaokang Zeng, Yande Liang, Kaizhong Chen (Beijing University of Technology)
  • Algorithm Track First Prize: Xingwang Xiong, Xu Wen, Cheng Huang (ICT, CAS)
  • Algorithm Track Second Prize: Tongyan Gong (ICT, CAS), Huiqian Niu (JD.com)
  • Algorithm Track Second Prize: Heming Sun, Xi Xiong (The Ohio State University)

BenchCouncil Award for Excellence for Reproducible Research

• 2020 Award Recipients
  • Characterizing the Sharing Behavior of Applications using Software Transactional Memory
    Douglas Pereira Pasqualin (Universidade Federal de Pelotas), Matthias Diener (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), André Rauber Du Bois (Universidade Federal de Pelotas) and Mauricio Lima Pilla (Universidade Federal de Pelotas)
  • swRodinia: A Benchmark Suite for Exploiting Architecture Properties of Sunway Processor
    Bangduo Chen (Beihang University), Mingzhen Li (Beihang University), Hailong Yang (Beihang University), Zhongzhi Luan (Beihang University), Lin Gan (Tsinghua University), Guangwen Yang (Tsinghua University) and Depei Qian (Beihang University)
  • MAS3K: An Open Dataset for Marine Animal Segmentation
    Lin Li (Ocean University of China), Eric Rigall (Ocean University of China), Junyu Dong (Ocean University of China) and Geng Chen (Inception Institute of Artificial Intelligence, United Arab Emirates)