[Announcements] Call for Nominations: UbiComp Gaetano Borriello Outstanding Student Award

[Zhi Liu]

Call for Nominations: UbiComp Gaetano Borriello Outstanding Student Award

The UbiComp Steering Committee is pleased to announce the nomination
process for the 2025 Gaetano Borriello Outstanding Student award. Named in
honour of the late Gaetano Borriello, this award recognizes a PhD student
who is making outstanding contributions to academia and society, and is
making strong and rounded contributions to the field of Ubiquitous and
Pervasive Computing.

The student receiving this award will be recognized during the UbiComp/ISWC
2025 conference, held in Espoo, Finland, from 14-16th October. They will
receive a small financial reward and a certificate to celebrate their
achievement.

ELIGIBILITY

   1.

   Nominees must be pursuing a research-based degree in any country in a
   field related to ubiquitous and pervasive computing.
   2.

   Nominees must have been a co-author and major contributor to at least 1
   UbiComp and/or IMWUT paper (any year).
   3.

   Nominee should be a current student in good standing as of the time of
   the nomination.

DEADLINE

Nominations are due by August 27th 2025, AOE.

NOMINATION PROCESS

For students to be nominated, there are two steps.

Step One: The student must create a single PDF that includes all of the
following materials, and upload it through to: https://tinyurl.com/gaetano25


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   A cover letter that includes:
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      Your name, contact email address and affiliation.
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      The date you started your doctoral program (Year/Month).
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      Expected graduation date of your graduate program (Year/Month).
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      A statement of your rationale as to why you should be considered.
      This can include:
      1.

         Intellectual contributions to the academic field in Ubicomp/IMWUT
         2.

         Important societal, environmental or other benefits arising from
         your work
         3.

         Service to the conference/ journal community. In honour of Gaetano
         this award especially seeks to recognise work of societal
importance, e.g.
         tackling issues of global equity, social and environmental justice.
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      A table listing contributions to Ubicomp/IMWUT (main
      conference/journal and adjunct proceedings). Please include DOIs for
      papers in the main proceedings, and a clear indicator of the contribution
      type (e.g., demo, posters, workshop organiser, workshop paper) for
      contributions to the adjunct proceedings.
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      The history of your service to IMWUT and UbiComp, and your broader
      research community.
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   A brief summary of research (maximum 2 pages, can be a dissertation
   proposal abstract or similar).
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   A brief academic CV.


Step Two: Students must have a recommendation letter from their research
advisor, submitted separately. The letter should confirm the eligibility of
the student and briefly state their rationale for supporting the
nomination. In addition, students may have an optional, additional
recommendation letter from other members of the UbiComp research community.


Endorsers, please upload your recommendation letter to the following URL by
August 27th 2025, AOE: https://tinyurl.com/gaetano25-endorsers

After the deadline, students who have made complete nominations will be
sent a confirmation of receipt. In case you submit your nomination but do
not hear from us by 31st August, please send an email to awards
-2025 at ubicomp.org

The award is decided jointly by a committee of domain experts. Our combined
judgement is final. Members with a known or self-declared conflict of
interest will not participate in reviewing conflicted nominations and in
the final decisions of awards.

The student winning the award will be notified in the first week of
September, and the award recipient will be announced during the conference.
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