PAKDD Early Career Research Award
Application for PAKDD-2025
Thanks to PAKDD Steering Committee, PAKDD will provide Early Career Research Award to an individual in the first 10 years after PhD. The award aims to promote young researchers in KDD fields when they create their career. It consists of a plaque (and potentially cash) to the awardee. The recipient will receive the award at the annual PAKDD Conference during the awards session.
Eligibility
- Anyone in the field can nominate one person. Self‐nominations are excluded. The nominator should obtain the endorsement from the nominee before nomination.
- The nominee's PhD should have been awarded no earlier than December 31st, current year – 11 years. For example, for the year 2025 awards, this means no earlier than 31st December 2014.
- The nominee can be anyone except the current PAKDD Award Selection Committee.
- The nominee must have published at least one full/long paper in PAKDD, and attended at least one PAKDD conference to present his/her results.
Selection Criteria
The application is evaluated based on the nominee's overall research contributions, leadership, and service in KDD fields since the awarding of the PhD. The awardee should commit to attend the PAKDD 2025 ceremony on‐site to receive the award.
The Award Selection Committee will evaluate all nominations and decide on zero or more winners.
Required Documents
- Statement including:a. Nominator Information
- Name
- Email Address
- Affiliation
- Homepage URL
b. Nominee Information- Name
- Email Address
- Affiliation
- Homepage URL
c. Proposed CitationUp to 25 wordsd. Detailed Statement500 words or fewer to justify the nomination - Endorsement LetterApproximately 1 page written by at least one SC (Steering Committee) member who is not the nominator. The letter should include detailed statement about the nominee's overall research, leadership, and service contributions in KDD fields since the awarding of the PhD.
- PhD CertificateCertificate showing PhD degree awarding institution and the time receiving the PhD degree
Note: Only PDF files are accepted. No other file formats are accepted. Submissions violating the above guideline will be disregarded.
Submission Details
Deadline
Dec 31, 2024
23:59:59 PST
Notification
Jan 25, 2025
23:59:59 PST
Submit to
Raymond Wong
raywong@cse.ust.hk
PAKDD Junior Award Selection Committee Chair
Email Subject
PAKDD: Application of 2025 PAKDD Early Career Research Award
Please include the nominee in the CC list of the submission email.
Nominations that did not result in an award in the current year can be re‐submitted or updated in subsequent years as long as the eligibility conditions for the award still hold.