[fg-arc] Call-for-Nominations: SPEC Kaivalya Dixit Distinguished Dissertation Award 2023

[Weiyi(Ian) Shang]

The SPEC Kaivalya Dixit Distinguished Dissertation Award aims to recognize
outstanding doctoral dissertations in the field of computer benchmarking,
performance evaluation, and experimental system analysis in general.
Nominated dissertations will be evaluated in terms of scientific
originality, scientific significance, practical relevance, impact, and
quality of the presentation.

The SPEC Research Group promotes research in quantitative system evaluation
and analysis both with classical performance metrics – such as response
time, throughput, scalability and efficiency, as well as other
extra-functional system properties included under the term dependability –
such as availability, reliability, and security. Contributions of interest
span the design of metrics for system evaluation as well as the development
of methodologies, techniques and tools for measurement, load testing,
profiling, workload characterization, dependability and efficiency
evaluation of computing systems.

The winner will receive $1000, which will be awarded at the ACM/SPEC
International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE 2024).

Nomination Guidelines

A nomination consists of one PDF file less than 20MB  that must include the
following information in this order:

A nomination letter with the name of the student, the title of the
dissertation, the institution where the dissertation was defended, and the
date of the defense. The nomination letter should outline the outstanding
contributions of the dissertation and should not exceed 2 pages (letter
size) using 11 point font.
A C.V. of the nominee (up to three pages) that clearly marks all
publications/technical reports that are included in the dissertation.
The dissertation itself, including a one-page extended abstract of the
dissertation. The dissertation may be accompanied by publications
describing the same research as the dissertation. However, the dissertation
itself also needs to be submitted.

SPEC Kaivalya Dixit Distinguished Dissertation Award is open to
dissertations defended between October 2021 and September 2023; a thesis
can be nominated only once, which means that a 2022 thesis nominated in
2023 cannot be nominated again in 2024. If there are several outstanding
submissions, the committee may choose to split the award.

Nominations should be uploaded to EasyChair at URL:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=specaward2023. The submission
system will open end of June, with a hard nomination deadline of October
20st, AOE.

Nominations can be provided by anyone except the thesis author. Typically,
it is the thesis advisor or a member of the thesis defense committee, but
other people – especially experts in performance evaluation – can do so as
well.

List of Topics

The SPEC Research Group promotes research in quantitative system evaluation
and analysis both with classical performance metrics – such as response
time, throughput, scalability and efficiency, as well as other
extra-functional system properties included under the term dependability –
such as availability, reliability, and security. Contributions of interest
span the design of metrics for system evaluation as well as the development
of methodologies, techniques and tools for measurement, load testing,
profiling, workload characterization, dependability and efficiency
evaluation of computing systems.

Selection committee

Cristina Abad (University in Guayaquil, Ecuador), selection committee chair
Varsha Apte, IIT Bombay, India
Valeria Cardellini, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata", Italy
David Daly, MongoDB, USA
Anshul Gandhi, Stony Brook University, USA
Klaus Lange, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), USA
Arif Merchant, Google, USA
Evgenia Smirni, William and Mary, USA
Marco Vieira, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Jan Vitek, Charles University, Czech Republic

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to nominations at spec
dot org.
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