The Katyanagi Prize for Research Excellence will be awarded annually to an established researcher with a record of outstanding, and sustained achievement. The prize carries a $20,000 honorarium. The recipient is chosen through a selection process involving formal nominations and voting by committee members at both Carnegie Mellon and TUT.

2008: Christos H. Papadimitriou
The Algorithmic Lens: How the Computational Perspective is Transforming the Sciences

2007: David A. Patterson (Inaugural Year)
Computer Architecture is Back: The Berkeley View of the Parallel Computing Research Landscape