Dear Colleagues: Please accept our sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message. Call for Nominations - IEEE TCSC Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award - 2021 ============= The IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) is a technical committee within IEEE Computer Society, aimed at fostering research and education in scalable computing with applications. The committee solicits nominations of Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award. Each award includes an award plaque along with a public citation for the award on the IEEE TCSC website and presented at IEEE HPCC-2021 conferemnce. The IEEE TCSC 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 scalable computing 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 TCSC. ============= Nomination Materials for Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award: Nominations must be submitted via email to the selection committee chair. A nomination application (as a single PDF file) must consist of the following materials: (1) A doctoral dissertation written by the applicant in any language, no more than 2 years prior to the submission deadline. (2) 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. (3) Sample published paper(s) in English based on the dissertation written primarily by the PhD candidate in scientific journals, especially IEEE Transactions/Journals. (4) Listing of all publications by the applicant in the related field. (5) 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 TCSC field. ============= Important Dates: - Nomination Deadline: November 21, 2021 - Results Notification: December 5, 2021 ============= Award Selection Committee: - Bernady O. Apduhan, Kyushu Sangyo University, Japan bob@is.kyusan-u.ac.jp - Beniamino Di Martino, Universita' della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Italy beniamino.dimartino@unicampania.it - Didier El Baz, LAAS-CNRS, France elbaz@laas.fr - Hai Jiang (Chair), Arkansas State University, USA hjiang@astate.edu