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ACM Special Interest Group
on Security, Audit and Control (SIGSAC)
SIGSAC Outstanding Early-Career Researcher Award
CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
The award committee is soliciting nominations for SIGSAC Outstanding Early-Career Researcher Award.
Deadline: July 20, 2025
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 2025 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), Oct. 13–17, 2025, Taipei. 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 2019 or later.
- 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.
2025 SIGSAC Awards Committee
Hao Chen, Chair (University of California, Davis, USA)
Christopher Kruegel (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
Adrian Perrig (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Thomas Ristenpart (Cornell Tech, USA)
Elaine Shi (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
David Wagner (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
Wenyuan Xu (Zhejiang University, China)
Jianying Zhou (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore)
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.
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.
2025 Award Recipient
Julian Loss, Ruhr University Bochum
2024 Award Recipients
- Nicolas Papernot, University of Toronto
- Elissa Redmiles, Georgetown University
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