2025 TBA
2024 Tomáš Vinař (Comenius University, Slovakia)
2023 Teresa Przytycka (NCBI/NLM/NIH, USA)
2022 Leena Salmela (University of Helsinki, Finland)
2021 Mona Singh (Princeton University, USA)
2020 Dan Gusfield (UC Davis, USA)
2019 Nadia El-Mabrouk (Université de Montréal, Canada)
2018 Mihai Pop (University of Maryland, USA)
2017 Tandy Warnow (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
2016 Kiyoshi Asai (University of Tokyo, Japan)
2015 Paola Bonizzoni (Università Degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy)
2014 Hélène Touzet (University of Lille, France)
2013 Bernard Moret (EPFL, Switzerland)
2012 Jens Stoye (Bielefeld University, Germany)
2011 Vincent Moulton (University of East Anglia, U.K.)
2010 Eran Halperin (Tel Aviv University, Israel and ICSI, Berkeley, CA, USA), Paolo Ferragina (University of Pisa, Italy)
2009 Shelley Berger (University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA), Elchanan Mossel (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
2008 Eytan Ruppin (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
2007 Maja Bucan (University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA), Pavel Pevzner (UC San Diego, CA, USA)
2006 Ron Shamir (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
2005 Marino Zerial (MPI of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany)
2004 Marie-France Sagot (Inria Rhône-Alpes, Lyon, France)
2003 Francois Major (Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada)
2002 Gene Myers (Celera Genomics, USA)
2001 [Gene Myers (Celera Genomics, USA) - cancelled]