Awards

SIGBED Research and Career Awards

SIGBED Early Career Researcher Award 2023

Call for Nominations

ACM SIGBED established the Early Career Researcher Award in 2017 to recognize contributions by junior researchers in the area of embedded, real-time, and cyber-physical systems. We are now inviting nominations for the 2023 edition of this award.

Award Recipients

2023

  • Zhishan Guo

    North Carolina State University

2022

  • Marco Zimmerling

    University of Freiburg

2021

  • Swarun Kumar

    Carnegie Mellon University

2020

  • Nan Guan

    Hong Kong Polytechnic University

2019

  • Alessandro Biondi

    Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna

  • Miroslav Pajic

    Duke University

2018

  • Björn Brandenburg

    Max Planck Institute for Software Systems

Eligibility

The nominee should

  • Be a SIGBED member;
  • Have obtained the PhD degree after 1 January 2016*;
  • Have a research focus on topics of relevance to embedded systems, as evidenced by venues of the majority publications.

*Note: The cutoff date for this award in 2023 is 1 Jan 2016. However, there was a mistake with the cutoff date last year (2022), which was set at 1 Jan 2014 and different from what it should have been historically. Therefore, we are providing one-off exception this year and candidates who graduated between Jan – Dec 2015 can also apply for this award. The cutoff date for 2024 will be 1 January 2017 and no exception will be given.

Nomination Process

The nomination package should consist of a nomination letter from a senior researcher in the field summarizing the nominee’s research contributions and explaining their significance and relevance to SIGBED. The letter should also compare the nominee’s research impact and scholarship with others at a similar stage in their career, and make a convincing case for an early career award.

In addition, a document, listing in a tabular form, the following information about the nominee, should be included in the nomination package:

  • Name
  • Current affiliation and position/rank
  • Research area (max. 12 words)
  • Top journals and top conferences (max. 3 each) in the field of embedded systems where the nominee has published, along with how many publications in each of these forums
  • Three most important contributions, along with a short (max. 100 words) description of each of them, emphasizing theoretical breakthroughs and/or practical impacts
  • List of major awards/honors
  • Important research funding/projects along with the nominee’s role (PI/co-PI) and funding amount
  • Short description of contributions to education/teaching (max. 150 words), if applicable

Finally, a CV of the nominee is needed, containing a full publication list.

All these three documents (nomination letter, summary, and CV) should be sent as a single PDF file by email to the Chair of the award committee (tulika@comp.nus.edu.sg) and copied to SIGBED (sigbed.acm@gmail.com), from either the nominator or the nominee. The subject of the email should be “Nomination for ACM SIGBED Early Career Researcher Award 2023”. Please contact the Chair and SIGBED for any questions.

Nomination Deadline

Please send your nomination by 10 April 2023.

Award Details

The award will be presented at CPS-IoT Week 2023, consisting of a plaque engraved with the nominee’s name and a USD $2,000 honorarium. Funding for the award is provided by ACM SIGBED.

2023 Award Selection Committee

  • Edward Lee, UC Berkeley
  • Tulika Mitra, NUS (Chair)
  • Mani Srivastava, UCLA
  • Lothar Thiele, ETH
  • Ingrid Verbauwhede, KU Leuven
  • Marilyn Wolf, University of Nebraska–Lincoln

Conflict of Interest Policy

The award committee members are not allowed to make nominations. If their former students or colleagues from the same institution are nominated, then appropriate steps will be taken to ensure that the decision on the award remains impartial.

Past Award Selection Committees

2022:

  • Tei-Wei Kuo (Chair), City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, & National Taiwan University, Taiwan
  • Samarjit Chakraborty, University of  North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
  • Nikil Dutt,  University of California, Irvine, USA
  • Joerg Henkel, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
  • Xue Liu, McGill University, Canada
  • Lothar Thiele,  ETH Zurich, Switzerland

2020:

  • Samarjit Chakraborty (UNC Chapel Hill) – Chair
  • Sanjoy Baruah (Washington University in St. Louis)
  • Reinhard Wilhelm (Saarland University)
  • Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli (UC Berkeley)
  • Prabal Dutta (UC Berkeley)
  • Massimo Poncino (Politecnico di Torino)
  • Kang Shin (University of Michigan)
  • Nikil Dutt (University of California, Irvine)

2019:

  • Sanjoy Baruah (Chair), Washington University in Saint Louis
  • Rolf Ernst, Technical University of Braunschweig
  • Janos Sztipanovits, Vanderbilt University
  • Lothar Thiele, ETH Zurich
  • Marilyn Wolf, Georgia Tech

2018:

  • Rajeev Alur (Chair), University of Pennsylvania,
  • Sanjoy Baruah, Washington University in Saint Louis
  • Janos Sztipanovits, Vanderbilt University
  • Marilyn Wolf, Georgia Tech