[Announcements] Call for Nominations - IEEE HITC Award for Excellence for Middle Career Researchers - 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 Middle Career Researcher (MCR) 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 Award for Excellence in Hyper-Intelligence (Middle Career
Researcher) recognizes up to 3 individuals who have made distinguished,
influential, and on-going yet towards long-lasting contributions in the
field of hyper-intelligent systems with applications. Typically, the
candidates are within 5 to 15 years of receiving their PhD degree as of
January 01 of the year of the award.

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Nominations:
A candidate must be nominated by members of the community. 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. A
nomination application (as a single PDF file) must consist of the following
materials:
• Name/email of person making the nomination (self-nominations are not
eligible).
• Name/email of the nominee.
• A statement by the nominator (maximum of 500 words) as to why the nominee
is highly deserving of the award both on excellence and in relation to IEEE
HITC.
• 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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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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