Call for Nominations - IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence for Early Career Researchers 2021

The IEEE TCSC (Technical Community on Scalable Computing) Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing (Early Career Researchers) recognizes up to 5 individuals who have made outstanding, influential, and potentially long-lasting contributions in the field of scalable computing. Typically the candidates are within 5 years of receiving their Ph.D. degree as of January 01 of the year of the award.

Nominations

A candidate may be nominated by members of the community. An individual may nominate at most one candidate for this award. Nominations must be submitted via email to the selection committee chair. A nomination application (as a single PDF file) should contain the following details:

1. Name/email of person making the nomination (self-nominations are not eligible);
2. Name/email of the candidate for whom the award is recommended;
3. A statement by the nominator (maximum of 500 words) as to why the nominee is highly deserving of the award both on excellence and in relation to IEEE TCSC;
4. CV of the nominee;
5. Up to three support letters from persons other than the nominator – these should be collected by the nominator and included in the nomination. Members of the selection committee cannot be nominators or referees.

Important Dates

Nomination Deadline: 07 December 2021

Results Notification: 15 December 2021

Award Selection Committee

• Bernady O. Apduhan, Kyushu Sangyo University, Japan, bob@is.kyusan-u.ac.jp
• Jinjun Chen (Chair), Swinburne University of Technology, Australia, jchen@swin.edu.au
• Beniamino Di Martino, Universita' della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy, beniamino.dimartino@unina.it
• Didier El Baz, LAAS-CNRS, France, elbaz@laas.fr

Award & Presentation Note

Awardees will be presented with a plaque and will be recognized by IEEE TCSC in its website, newsletter, and archives.

The awards for 2021 will be presented at a selected IEEE TCSC sponsored conference IEEE HPCC 2021.