Award Opportunities

Award Opportunities

• SIGMM Award for Outstanding PhD Thesis in Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications

SIGMM Award for Outstanding PhD Thesis in Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications

More info: http://sigmm.utdallas.edu/SIGMM%20Awards/thesisaward

 Award Description

This award will be presented every year to a researcher whose PhD thesis has made contributions and has the potential of very high impact in multimedia computing, communication and applications. The goal will be to evaluate contributions towards advances in multimedia including multimedia processing, multimedia systems, multimedia network protocols and services, multimedia applications and interfaces. The award will recognize members of the SIGMM community and their research contributions in their PhD theses as well as the potential of impact of their PhD theses in multimedia area.

The selection committee will focus on candidates' contributions as judged by innovative ideas and potential impact resulting from their PhD work. The award includes a $500 honorarium, an award certificate of recognition, and an invitation for the recipient to receive the award at a current year's SIGMM-sponsored conference, the ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM Multimedia). A public citation for the award will be placed on the SIGMM website, in the SIGMM Records e-newletter as well as in the ACM e-newsletter.

Funding

The award honorarium, the award plaque of recognition and travel expenses to the ACM International Conference on Multimedia will be fully sponsored by the SIGMM budget.

Nomination Applications

Nominations will be solicited by January 3rd, 2010 deadline, with decision made by July 30, in time to allow the above recognition and award presentation at ACM Multimedia in that Fall (October/November). The PhD thesis to be nominated for the award must be deposited at the nominee's Academic Institution between January and December of the previous year of nomination. Nominations for the award must include:

1. A statement summarizing the candidate's PhD thesis contributions and potential impact, and justification of the nomination (two pages maximum);

2. PhD thesis;

3. Curriculum Vitae of the nominee;

4. Three endorsement letters supporting the nomination including the significant PhD thesis contributions of the candidate. Each endorsement should be no longer than 500 words with clear specification of nominee PhD thesis contributions and potential impact on the multimedia field;

5. A concise statement (one sentence) of the PhD thesis contribution for which the award is being given. This statement will appear on the award certificate and on the website.

The nomination rules are:

1. The nominee can be any member of the scientific community.

2. The nominator must be a SIGMM member.

3. No self-nomination is allowed.

The submission process of nominations will be preceded by the call for nominations. The call of nominations will be widely publicized by the SIGMM awards committee and by the SIGMM Executive Board at the different SIGMM venues, such as during the SIGMM premier ACM Multimedia conference (at the SIGMM Business Meeting), on the SIGMM web site, via SIGMM mailing list, and via SIGMM e-newsletter between September and December of the previous year.

Selection Committee
Professor Svetha Venkatesh - Chair (Curtin University of Technology, Australia)
Professor Dick Bulterman (CWI, The Netherlands)
Professor Abed El Saddik (abed@mcrlab.uottawa.ca) University of Ottawa, Canada