| Name | Institution | System | Citation "For" |
| Andrea Benaglia | Milano-Bicocca(student) | ECAL | contribution to calibration and monitoring of ECAL with isolated electrons |
| Yong Yang | Caltech (student) | ECAL | contributions to intercalibration of ECAL with pi0's and eta's |
| Jean-Roch Vlimant | UCSB(postdoc) | Offline | excellent work in the reconstruction project as convener as well as in the daily offline operations |
| Salvatore di Guida | CERN(postdoc) | Offline | excellent work on the infrastructue for alignment and calibration workflows |
| Jacob Linacre | FNAL (postdoc) | Computing | excellent contributions to CMS Data Processing |
| David Sperka | Boston University (student) | Trigger | outstanding HLT work on CPU performance, muon triggers and on-call support" |
| Alex Mott | Caltech (student) | Trigger | outstanding HLT work on monitoring, noise filters, SUSY triggers and on-call support" |
| Anna Cimmino | Ghent (post-doc) | Muons | contribution in the RPC DQM design and development. |
| Chris Farrell | UCLA (student) | Muons | contribution in the CSC muon reconstruction. |
| Ben Kreis | Cornell (student pixel) | Tracker | outstanding contribution to Pixel detector commissioning, calibration and operation." |
| Christian Barth | KIT (student strip) | Tracker | outstanding contribution to Tracker radiation damage studies, DCS and operation. " |
| Yi Chen | Caltech (student) | HCAL | outstanding contribution to the development and implementation of HCAL noise filters |
| Taylan Yetkin | Iowa (post-doc) | HCAL | leadership in HCAL operations and improvements in the HF detector and data quality |
| Ekaterina Kuznetsova | DESY (Postdoc) | HCAL | outstanding contribution to CASTOR commissioning and calibration |
| Gian Piero di Giovanni | Univ. of Florida(postdoc) | TriDas | work in the development and commissioning of the CSC muon trigger |
| Sho Maruyama | UC Davis (student) | TriDas | work on the development of WBM trigger monitoring |
| Jake Anderson | FNAL (postdoc) | Upgrade | outstanding contribution to HCAL upgrade simulations |
| Andrzej Zuranski | Princeton (student) | Run | contributions to the operation of the CMS luminosity measurement |
| James Hirschauer | FNAL (postdoc) | Run | contributions to the operations of the CMS HCAL and prompt feedback |
| Ivan Amos Cali | MIT (postdoc) | Run | leading the effort to commission CMS for heavy ion readout |
