Faith Singer, Managing Editor, Texas Advanced Computing Center

The Paul A. Navrátil Young Research Award

Celebrating young researchers who push the boundaries of science and innovation using TACC resources

Jaesuk ‘Eugene’ Park (left) and Zheyu Wen (right) exchange ideas on their research during the poster session.

TACCSTER 2025

This year’s conference debuted the Paul A. Navrátil Young Researcher Award, celebrating early-career researchers who push the boundaries of science with TACC’s advanced computing resources.

Excellence in Publication

Zheyu Wen
Graduate researcher, Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences

For groundbreaking work integrating medical imaging, biophysical modeling, machine learning, and HPC to advance Alzheimer’s disease studies.

Excellence in Presentation

Jaesuk “Eugene” Park
Graduate student, Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences

For developing a scalable machine learning workflow to compute higher-order force constants with automatic differentiation.

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