AWARDS
- 2025: The Technical Community on Parallel Processing (TCPP) Award for Excellence in Parallel and Distributed Computing Education
- 2024: Elected Fellow of AAAS
- 2021: Elected ACM Fellow
- 2019: IEEE Computer Society Sidney Fernbach Award | Prize Lecture Video
- 2018: Elected IEEE Fellow
- 2015: Charles Babbage Award
- 2015: Elected AMS Fellow
- 2013: Deshpande Award for Julia
- 2011: Elected SIAM Fellow
- 2005: The Lester R. Ford Award with Gilbert Strang
- 2003: MIT 1K Warm-up Round Award for Star-P
- 2001: SIAM Outstanding Paper Prize awarded at the SIAM Annual Meeting
- 2000: SIAM Activity Group on Linear Algebra Prize (with Elmroth and Kågström)
- 1999: Edgerly Science Partnership Award
- 1998: Chauvenet Prize
- 1995: MIT School of Science Partnership Award
- 1995: NSF Faculty Career Award
- 1994: Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship
- 1993: Leslie Fox Competition in Numerical Analysis (second prize)
- 1990: Householder Prize
- 1990: Gordon Bell Prize. (Prize winners since 1987)
- 1989: Leslie Fox Competition in Numerical Analysis (second prize)
- 1989: NSF-NATO Postdoctoral Fellowship
- 1986--1989: Hertz Foundation
- 1985: First Student not only at MIT, but in the entire world to use Commercial MATLAB (Advisor Trefethen bought first license. Not a prize, but cool nonetheless.)
- 1983: Phi Beta Kappa
- 1980-1984: Numerous (8) Yale Mathematics Competition Prizes
- 1980: USA Mathematical Olympiad, ranked tenth in nation