Awards

SIGBED Research and Career Awards

SIGBED Distinguished Leadership Awards (2025)

Call for Nominations

ACM SIGBED established the Distinguished Leadership Award in 2022 to recognize individuals who have exemplary and substantive leadership in leading and implementing activities over the communities relevant to SIGBED, such as those over embedded, real-time, and cyber-physical systems at regional, national, and/or international level.

Eligibility

The nominee should be a SIGBED member and have a research focus on topics of relevance to SIGBED. See the SIGBED webpage for SIGBED sponsored conferences to determine relevance and instructions regarding how to join SIGBED.

Nomination Process

The nomination package should consist of a nomination letter from a senior researcher in the field to summarize the nominee’s leadership roles and contributions and to explain its significance and relevance to SIGBED. In addition, the following should be included in the package. A document, listing in a tabular form, the following information about the nominee:

  • Name
  • Current affiliation and position/rank
  • Research area (max 12 words)
  • No more than three most important contributions in leading and implementing activities over the communities relevant to SIGBED
  • List of major awards/honors
  • A Citation (max 25 words)
  • A CV of the nominee, containing a full publication list

All of 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 (Prof. Tei-Wei Kuo). The subject of the email should be “Nomination for ACM SIGBED Distinguished Leadership Award 2022”. The email should be sent by the nominator to the Chair of the Award Selection Committee with a cc-copy to the SIGBED Chair. Please contact the chair for any questions.

Award Selection Committee

  • Tei-Wei Kuo (Chair), Delta Electronics & National Taiwan University, Taiwan
  • Nikil Dutt,  University of California, Irvine, USA
  • Joerg Henkel, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
  • Insup Lee, University of Pennsylvania, USA
  • Lothar Thiele,  ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Timeline

  • Nomination Deadline: March 10
  • Short Finalist Decision: March 28
  • Awardee Decision: April 15
  • Award to Be Presented at CPSWeek (May 6-9, 2025)

Award Details

The award will be presented at CPS-IoT Week 2025.