Bob Van Valzah
Fellowship awarded in 2018 for key contributions to STAC-M2 (benchmarks for high-speed messaging stacks) and other latency-oriented STAC Benchmarks.
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Since 2014, we've recognized individuals from leading financial institutions who have made extraordinary contributions to the STAC community—from developing benchmark specifications to providing strategic guidance that expands our impact.
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Fellowship awarded in 2018 for key contributions to STAC-M2 (benchmarks for high-speed messaging stacks) and other latency-oriented STAC Benchmarks.
Fellowship awarded in 2017 for key contributions to STAC-TS (benchmarks for timestamping and event-capture solutions)
Fellowship awarded in 2025 for key participation, connections, and energy that have grown the STAC ecosystem in SIGs, working groups, in the Chicago community and beyond.
Fellowship awarded in 2017 for key contributions to STAC-TS (benchmarks for timestamping and event capture solutions).
Fellowship awarded in 2014 for key contributions to STAC-M2 (benchmarks for high-speed messaging stacks) and for playing an instrumental role in expanding industry involvement in the STAC Benchmark Council.
Fellowship awarded in 2014 for key contributions to STAC’s activities related to trade execution and for playing an instrumental role in expanding industry involvement in the STAC Benchmark Council.
Fellowship awarded in 2014 for key contributions to research programs involving STAC-M3 (benchmarks for tick database stacks).
Fellowship awarded in 2014 for key contributions to STAC-A2 (benchmarks based on risk computations).
Fellowship awarded in 2014 for technology foresight advice and contributions to the expansion of the STAC Benchmark Council.
Fellowship awarded in 2014 for key contributions to the research programs relating to network I/O and to STAC-N1 (benchmarks for network stacks).
Fellowship awarded in 2024 for key contributions to research programs involving STAC-AI LANG6 (benchmarks for LLM Inference stacks).