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ACM Special Interest Group
on Security, Audit and Control (SIGSAC)
SIGSAC Outstanding Early-Career Researcher Award
CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
In 2024 ACM SIGSAC introduced the SIGSAC Outstanding Early-Career Researcher Award. The award committee is soliciting nominations for this inaugural year of the award. Nominations should be submitted via e-mail to the chair of this year's committee: Dr. Ninghui Li (ninghui@purdue.edu).
Deadline for Award Nominations
The deadline for receiving nomination is midnight AOE, August 9th, 2024.
Award Overview
The SIGSAC Outstanding Early Career Award, approved by ACM in 2024, is designed to recognize early-career researchers who have demonstrated exceptional contributions to the field of computer security and privacy, broadly defined.
The award will be presented at the 2024 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), Oct. 14-18, 2024, Salt Lake City, USA. The award will be presented as a plaque or a framed certificate, accompanied by a monetary prize of $1500 and waiver of the registration fee for attending the CCS main conference.
Eligibility and Award Criteria
- A nominee's PhD. degree should be received in 2018 or later. The award committee may adjust eligibility to accommodate documented career interruptions. These can include, but are not limited to, family-related or medical leaves, family leaves, or military service. For questions concerning eligibility, please contact the award committee chair before submitting a nomination.
- Nominees will be evaluated by the award committee based on the impact, originality, and depth of their work. Special emphasis will be placed on significant research contributions made independently of the nominee's PhD and postdoctoral advisors.
2024 SIGSAC Awards Committee
Ninghui Li, Chair (Purdue University, USA)
Véronique Cortier (CNRS, Loria, France)
Lorrie Cranor (CMU, USA)
Trent Jaeger (UC Riverside, USA)
Jonathan Katz (University of Maryland, USA)
Kui Ren (Zhejiang University, China)
Nomination Process
Each nomination should be submitted by a nominator with three endorsements. Each nomination must include:
- Curriculum vitae of the nominee
- A nomination statement summarizing the originality, depth, and impact of the candidate's research (two pages maximum)
- Three endorsement letters, from people other than the nominator. Each letter should be no longer than 500 words and explain the endorser's familiarity with the nominee's contributions and the reasons behind endorsing the nominee. The endorsement letters can be submitted either together with the nomination or via email to the award committee chair.
Note
- Self-nomination and self-endorsing are not allowed.
- Nominees and nominators are NOT required to be members of ACM or SIGSAC.
- The committee will adhere to the ACM Awards Committee Conflict of Interest (COI) guidelines. In particular, members of the award committee or SIGSAC executive committee are not eligible to be nominees, nominators, or endorsers.
- Each nominator can submit at most 1 nomination. There is no limit regarding the number of nominees that one can endorse.
Deadline for Award Nominations:
The deadline for receiving nomination is midnight AOE, August 9th, 2024.
2024 Award Recipients
- Nicolas Papernot, University of Toronto
- Elissa Redmiles, Georgetown University
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