[Announcements] Call for Nominations - IEEE HITC Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award - 2025

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The IEEE Technical Committee on Hyper-Intelligence (HITC) is a technical
committee within IEEE Systems Council, aimed at fostering research and
education in hyper-intelligent systems with applications. The committee
solicits nominations of Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award. The award
includes an award plaque that will be presented at a selected IEEE HITC
sponsored conference, along with a public citation for the award on the
IEEE HITC website.

The IEEE HITC Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award is an annual award to
recognize candidates that have recently received a PhD degree for no more
than 2 years and have written an outstanding PhD dissertation in the field
of the 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.

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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 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.

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Nomination:
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.

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Important Dates:
- Nomination Deadline: July 31, 2025
- Results Notification: August 22, 2025

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Award Selection Committee:
• Laurence T. Yang (Chair), Zhengzhou University, China (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)

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Award Selection Secretary:
• Xiaokang Zhou, Kansai University, Japan (zhou at kansai-u.ac.jp)

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Award & Presentation Note:
Awardees will be presented a plaque and will be recognized by IEEE HITC in
its website, newsletter and archives. The awards for 2025 will be presented
at CyberSciTech 2025 (IEEE HITC sponsored conference) - Hakodate City,
Hokkaido, Japan, October 21-24, 2025.
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