| Name | Institution | System | Nomination |
| Shervin Nourbakhsh | Universita' di Roma La Sapienza and INFN Roma-1 (student) | ECAL | decisive contribution to the ECAL calibration and resolution studies |
| Yutaro Ilyama | Canergie-Mellon U. (student) | ECAL | decisive contribution to the ECAL Data Quality Monitoring |
| Danilo Piparo | CERN | PPD | excellent work in the Physics data MC validation (PdmV) project as convener as well as in the daily offline operations |
| Sho Maruyama | FNAL | PPD | excellent work on the data certification |
| Piergiulio Lenzi | Universita' di Firenze | Offline | |
| Slava Krutelyov | UCSD | Offline | |
| Juliette Alimena | Brown univ | Trigger | implementation of triggers for long-lived particles and outstanding contributions to HLT code and trigger menu integration |
| Lucie Gautier | UIC | Trigger | trigger menu development, implementation of SUSY triggers and outstanding service as an HLT on-call expert " |
| Antonio Branca | Padua (Student) | Muons | important contributions to the DT-DQM, which, thanks to his implementation of well designed tests, is able to certify the data quality with great accuracy" |
| Danielle Fasanella | Bologna (postdoc) | Muons | outstanding contribution in supporting the DT PVSS , HV and LV systems, for which he developed numerous functionalities for dealing with difficult problems, such as the VCON error in the LV, making it one of the key elements for the DT excellent peformance in the past two years." |
| Erik Butz | MIT (postdoc) | Tracker | important contribution to strip-Tracker operations and his major role in assuring the highest availability and best performance of the strip detector during the full p-p running period. |
| Janos Karancsi | Univ. Debrecen | Tracker | important contribution to our understanding of pixel-detector efficiency in very high rate conditions, in addition to his detailed studies of transient and cumulative radiation effects." |
| Sudarshan Paramesvaran | UC Riverside (postdoc) | HCAL | outstanding contributions to the HCAL commissioning and operations with his leading role in 2012. |
| Edmund A. Berry | Princeton U. (student) | HCAL | excellent contribution to the HCAL operations and DAQ expertise. |
| Jeffrey Wood | U. of Kansas (Student() | HCAL | outstanding contribution to the ZDC development and operations . |
| Nadir Daci | LLR (student) | TriDas | studies of the L1 Electron-Photon trigger performance including ECAL spike killing |
| Giuseppe Codispoti | UAM (postdoc) | TriDas | maintaining, operating and monitoring the DT Track-finder trigger, including its software" |
| Kevin Pedro | Maryland (student) | Upgrade | development of simulation tools andstudies for forward calorimetry concepts |
| Mark Grimes | Bristol (postdoc) | Upgrade | studies on physics performance with the pixel detector upgrade |
| Juan Antonio Lopez Perez | FNAL | Run | outstanding contribution to the development of online monitoring tools in WBM and persistent support during the run |
| Ivan Amos Cali | MIT | Run | contribution to the preparation, commissioning and coordination of CMS for the Heavy Ion run" |
