Oct 14, 2024, Salt Lake City, USA
All CCS’24 Attendees are Welcome to Participate
8:40 AM Welcoming remarks
8:50 AM – 10:30 AM Session 1, Chair: Gang Tan
10:30 AM – 11:00 AM Break
11:00 AM – 12:15 PM Session 2, Chair: Kevin Roundy
12:15 PM – 1:30 PM Lunch
1:30 PM – 3:10 PM Session 3, Chair: Apu Kapadia
3:10 PM – 3:30 PM Break
3:30 PM – 4:45 PM Session 4, Chair: Kevin Butler
4:45 PM Concluding remarks
Pursuing a PhD can be an arduous journey. Starting in 2024, a dedicated Doctoral Symposium will be held in conjunction with the ACM CCS conference to provide PhD students with timely feedback from the SIGSAC research community on their dissertation research. The Inaugural Doctoral Symposium will be held on Oct 14, the day before the CCS’24 main conference. Invited PhD students will present their in-progress PhD dissertation work to the audience. During and after each presentation, the student and the audience will engage in constructive discussions with the purpose of providing perspectives and suggestions to help the student refine and strengthen their dissertation work.
It is worth noting that a PhD dissertation has much more depth than a single peer-reviewed paper or simply a collection of results from several published papers. A PhD dissertation shall be based on a coherent postulate that is subject to rigorous scientific reasoning and experimentation, and consists of a substantial amount of inquiry -- theoretically, experimentally, or both -- that demonstrates the validity and utility of the said postulate. An ideal candidate who can benefit from the Doctoral Symposium is one who can articulate this vision, and explain to the committee 1) why it is worthwhile to conduct the research, 2) the rationale behind the approaches being contemplated/experimented, and 3) any existing data that demonstrates a feasible path forward. We expect students who can benefit most from the Doctoral Symposium are those who are in the middle of their PhD journey. This is also a period when a PhD student is eager to acquire a wide perspective of their work, but may not have had the exposure (e.g., conference presentations) necessary to receive feedback from the broader research community. To encourage participation in the Doctoral Symposium, ACM SIGSAC has provided generous financial support so each invited PhD student will receive a $1,000 student travel grant to help defray the cost of attending the Doctoral Symposium.
Gabriela Ciocarlie (co-chair) - UT San Antonio