Alex Conway, assistant professor of computer science at Cornell Tech and the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science, has won the 2025 Early Career Prize by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Activity Group on Applied and Computational Discrete Algorithms (ACDA). The award recognizes Conway’s influential contributions to the design and analysis of algorithms, particularly for data storage systems.

The SIAM ACDA Early Career Prize is awarded every two years to an early-career researcher who has made outstanding contributions to the field of discrete algorithms. In its announcement, SIAM highlighted Conway’s “groundbreaking contributions ranging from theory to practice, in the design, implementation, and application of algorithms and data structures for high-performance memory and storage systems.”

“My work focuses on making the fundamental building blocks of computer memory and storage systems faster and more efficient,” Conway said in the announcement. “Ultimately, this research contributes to a faster, more capable digital infrastructure, which underpins many of the technologies we rely on.”

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