[Announcements] [Call for Nominations: Deadline Jul. 15] - 2024 HITC Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award

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*Call for Nominations - HITC Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award - 2024*


The IEEE HITC Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award is an annual award to
recognize candidates who have recently received a PhD degree for no more
than 2 years and have written an outstanding PhD dissertation in the field
of hyper-intelligent systems with applications. This award is established
to encourage doctoral research that combines theory and practice or makes
in-depth technical contributions, having the potential to contribute to the
IEEE HITC.

*Nomination Rules:*

·       A candidate may be nominated by members of the community.

·       Self-nominations are not eligible.

·       An individual may nominate at most one candidate for this award.

·       Name/email of the person making the nomination; self-nominations
are not eligible.

·       Name/email of candidate for whom the award is recommended.

·       A statement by the nominator (maximum of 500 words) as to why the
nominee is highly deserving of the award and a brief summary of the service
contributions.

·       CV of the nominee.

·       Up to three support letters from persons other than the nominator;
these should be collected by the nominator and included in the nomination.

*Nominations:*

Nominations must be submitted via email to the selection secretary (and CC
the committee chair). The subject of the nomination email should be named
as: HITC + Award Category+ Nominee, such as HITC-PhD Dissertation
Award-Abbott, HITC-Early Career Award-Obama, HITC-Middle Career
Award-George Washington, HITC-Achievement Award-Macron, HITC-Industrial
Impact Award-Jack. The subject of the nomination email is: HITC + award
category of nomination + name of applicant. A nomination application (as a
single PDF file) must consist of the following materials:

·       A doctoral dissertation written by the applicant in any language,
no more than 2 years prior to the submission deadline.

·       A summary of the dissertation in English of up to 2 pages in length
written by the PhD candidate, highlighting the significance of the problem,
the technical approach taken, and the application context and potential.

·       Sample published paper(s) in English based on the dissertation
written primarily by the PhD candidate in scientific journals, especially
IEEE Transactions/Journals.

·       Listing of all publications by the applicant in the related field.

·       A letter of recommendation from the applicant’s dissertation
advisor that assesses the significance of the research, attests to the
originality of the work, and comments on the engagement of the applicant in
the HITC field.

*Important Dates:*

*·       Nomination Deadline: July 15, 2024*

*·       Results Notification: August 31, 2024*

*Award Selection Committee:*

·       Laurence T. Yang (Chair), St. Francis Xavier University, Canada (
ltyang at ieee.org)

·       Flavia C. Delicato, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil (
felipe at cos.ufrj.br)

·       Bernady O. Apduhan, Kyushu Sangyo University, Japan (
bob at is.kyusan-u.ac.jp)

·       Anna Kobusińska, Poznan University of Technology, Poland (
Anna.Kobusinska at cs.put.poznan.pl)

·       Klimis Ntalianis, University of West Attica, Greece (
kntal at image.ntua.gr)

*Award Selection Secretary: *

Zhi Liu, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan (liu at ieee.org)

*Award & Presentation Note:*

Awardees will be presented with a plaque and will be recognized by IEEE
HITC on its website, newsletter, and archives. The awards for 2024 will be
presented at a selected IEEE HITC sponsored conference.
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