Open Awards Recipients

Doug Bates

Emeritus Professor of Statistics

For his work as a member of the R core team from early versions until March 2024. He co-developed the nlme and lme4 packages for R, among others. He was honored by the American Statistical Association for his fundamental contributions to statistical computing infrastructure and the R and Julia languages.

Karl Broman

Professor of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics

For his work on numerous software packages in R, including R/qtl, and his openly shared teaching materials, tutorials, and scholarship.

Kevin Eliceiri

RRF Walter H. Helmerich Professor of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering

For his work on ImageJ, an open source project for processing and analyzing scientific images. He is also an Open Source Hardware Trailblazer Fellow.

Matthew Feickert

Data Science Institute Research Scientist

For his work on the executive board of the Institute for Research and Innovation in Software for High Energy Physics (IRIS-HEP) and on the SciPy Conference organizing committee. He received the US Research Software Sustainability Institute (URSSI) Early Career Fellowship.

Morton Ann Gernsbacher

Vilas Research Professor and Sir Frederic C. Bartlett Professor of Psychology

For her work on open active learning courses that have served thousands of UW-Madison students. She also provides open access to her research lab’s materials, data, and manuscripts, contributes scholarship on open science topics, and champions open and reproducible research practices.

Corinna Gries

Center for Limnology Distinguished Scientist

For her contributions to open data practices in the fields of ecology and environmental science. She established the Environmental Data Initiative, a repository of environmental data for open and reproducible science, and now leads the data curation, outreach, and training activities of EDI in an ex officio capacity.

Miron Livny and the Center for High Throughput Computing (CHTC)

For his work as director of CHTC, director and chief technology officer of the Software Assurance Marketplace, leader of the HTCondor open source software project, and the technical director of the Open Science Grid (OSG), a consortium for distributed high throughput computing (dHTC) services.

Sarah Stevens and The Carpentries community

For her work as director of the Data Science Hub and as an instructor and executive council member on The Carpentries Board of Directors. She organized the UW-Madison Carpentries community and the Midwest Carpentries Community.

Open Source Seed Initiative Founders

Irwin Goldman and Jack Kloppenburg

For their work on the Open Source Seed Initiative, dedicated to maintaining fair and open access to plant genetic resources worldwide.

NASA Health and Air Quality Applied Sciences (HAQAST) Team

Tracey Holloway and Jenny Bratburd

For their work on HAQAST connecting NASA data and tools with public stakeholders. The data products provided by HAQAST have supported public outreach platforms reaching thousands of users.

The JuliaPhylo Team

Cécile Ané, Claudia Solís-Lemus, Joshua Justison, Nathan Kolbow, and Benjamin Teo

For their work on JuliaPhylo, an open source software ecosystem for phylogenetics in the Julia language with an active user-contributor community across its publications, repositories, and user group.

The Tiny Earth Project

Sarah Miller

The Tiny Earth Project champions open practices in scientific teaching and data sharing through student research experiences in antibiotic discovery.

SSEC Community Satellite Processing Package (CSPP)

The CSPP provides open source software for satellite data collection, delivery, and visualization.

James E. Pustejovsky

Associate Professor of Educational Psychology

For his work demonstrating a sustained commitment to open practices throughout his scholarly career, and his efforts advancing the practices of sharing data, materials, and open source software within the field of research synthesis.​

Ryan Jacobs

Materials Science & Engineering Research Scientist

For his commitment to open scholarship, software, and data that is helping to lead a revolution in machine learning and data-centric thinking in materials.​

Rich Townsend

Professor of Astronomy

For his work on GYRE, a stellar oscillation code. GYRE is an open-source tool for asteroseismic analysis used by hundreds of researchers worldwide.​

Tyler Caraza-Harter

Faculty Associate in Computer Sciences

For his work maintaining the OpenLambda project since 2016. The OpenLambda project has over 1,000 commits from dozens of contributors, and serverless research projects frequently build upon and reference it.​