2018 Abie Awards

2020 Abie Award Winners

Dr. Jess Wade

Dr. Jess Wade

Change Agent Abie Award

Sponsored by Intel Corporation

Jess Wade is a physicist at Imperial College London whose research investigates new materials for electronic devices. Beyond her daily work as a physicist, Jessica is championing women in scientists by tackling gender bias on Wikipedia. Only 18.46% of the biographies on English language Wikipedia are about women – and the percentage of women scientists…

Dr. Olga Russakovsky

Dr. Olga Russakovsky

Emerging Leader Abie Award

Dr. Olga Russakovsky is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University. She is one of the leaders of the ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge, and has been recognized as one of the world’s top young innovators. Her current research considers the historical and societal bias within visual recognition and the development of…

Dr. Lisa Su

Dr. Lisa Su

Technical Leadership Abie Award

Sponsored by Capital One Services, LLC

Lisa is the Chief Executive Officer and President of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). AMD is powering the future of high-performance computing and visualization through its microprocessors, APUs, and graphics chips. Through Lisa’s remarkable leadership as a business executive and electrical engineer, AMD went from struggling to having its strongest performance in the 50-year history of…

Pelagia Majoni

Pelagia Majoni

Student of Vision Abie Award

Discover Financial Services

Pelagia Majoni is an outstanding undergraduate student of Computer Science at Haverford College in Pennsylvania who is using her skillset as an engineer to address the agricultural and infrastructure challenges in her home country of Zimbabwe. Pelagia grew up in a remote unelectrified region of Zimbabwe. She was aware of challenges within her community from…

Tracy Young

Tracy Young

Technology Entrepreneurship Abie Award

Tracy Young is the co-founder and former CEO of PlanGrid, the leader in mobile construction management software. Under Tracy’s leadership and vision, PlanGrid grew from a small startup in 2011 to a construction industry leader with more than 400 employees and 1.5 million construction projects in over 90 countries. In this period of growth, Tracy…