We are delighted to announce that the 2025 SIGBED Early Career Researcher Award has been awarded to Dr. Fanxin Kong, an Assistant Professor at University of Notre Dame. This award, established by ACM SIGBED in 2017, recognizes contributions by junior researchers in the area of embedded, real-time, and cyber-physical systems.

The 2025 Award Selection Committee was chaired by Professor Wanli Chang (Hunan University, China) and included Professor Jian-Jia Chen (TU Dortmund, Germany), Professor Andreas Gerstlauer (UT Austin, USA), Professor Pi-Cheng Hsiu (Academia Sinica, Taiwan), Professor Pavithra Prabhakar (University of New Mexico, USA), and Professor Marilyn Wolf (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA). The committee carefully considered the nominees and selected Dr. Fanxin Kong in light of his contributions.

Dr. Fanxin Kong’s research centers around assured and intelligent cyber-physical systems with focuses on physical AI, cyber-physical security and safety, and for applications to autonomous systems such as unmanned vehicles and robotic systems. He has published over 80 research papers at top venues including RTSS, RTAS, EMSOFT, ICCPS, DAC, etc, various IEEE/ACM transactions, and books/book chapters. His research is supported by NSF, AFRL, AFOSR, and DARPA. He has received multiple awards including NSF CAREER Award (2025), AFRL Summer Faculty Extension Award (2022, 2024), the champion of Embedded System Software Competition at ESWEEK (2024), etc. He has served as organizing committee members and program committee members for many workshops and conferences.

On behalf of ACM SIGBED, we extend our warmest congratulations to Dr. Fanxin Kong for this distinction and his contributions to embedded, real-time and cyber-physical systems.