Caltech’s Harvey Newman and His Team Recognized with 2026 CENIC Innovations in Network Award for Experimental Applications

For advancing science through networking software research led by academic faculty leaders and supported by CENIC engineers

LA MIRADA, Calif. & SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC) is pleased to announce that Caltech Professor of Physics Harvey Newman and his team of researchers will be recognized with the 2026 CENIC Innovations in Networking Award for Experimental Applications. Professor Newman’s team includes Preeti Bhat, Tom Hutton, John Graham, and Mohammad Sada. The award will be presented at CENIC’s biennial conference “The Right Connection” to be held from March 31–April 1, 2026 in Monterey, CA.

At numerous CENIC conferences, Professor Newman has consistently forecasted that the exponential growth in the volume and complexity of the data generated by those actively engaged in global science programs would require commensurate growth in advanced networking to keep pace.

Moreover, achieving this goal has integrated AutoGOLE/SENSE connections and associated advanced services that can be managed automatically and at a distance. Working with ESnet colleagues Inder Monga, Tom Lehman, and Justas Balcas, and San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) engineers John Graham, Tom Hutton, and Mohammad Sada, Harvey and his team recently realized the coordinated orchestration of exascale data transfers at SC25—a remarkable achievement!

Harvey has served as one of California’s most influential innovators and intellectual drivers towards significant progress in this programmable Layer 2 and 3 circuit methodology that now can provide persistent ultrafast networking capabilities to the global research community. As the term “big-data science” comes to encompass more disciplines every year, his accomplishments continue to enable important achievements in an ever-growing number of sciences and will do so for years to come.

As a core anchor of the Global Network Advancement Group (GNA-G) Data Intensive Science Working Group and with active collaborations with colleagues at universities and laboratories across the US, Latin America, Asia and at CERN, Harvey’s physics research interests drive CENIC and its members to reach farther than anyone thought possible. That has led to innovations that serve the National Research Platform, the Global Research Platform, and locally, the CENIC AI Resource (CENIC AIR), in providing network efficiency and effectiveness for all our members.

The CENIC community is in Professor Harvey Newman’s debt for decades of unwavering focus and accomplishment.