[fg-arc] Call-for-Nominations: SPEC Kaivalya Dixit Distinguished Dissertation Award 2025

[Weiyi(Ian) Shang]

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

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 2026).
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 Arial 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 2023 and September 2025; a thesis
can be nominated only once, which means that a 2023 thesis nominated in
2024 cannot be nominated again in 2025. 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=specaward2025. The submission
system will open at the end of June, and the hard nomination deadline is
September 30th, 2025 @23:59:59 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

   - Weiyi Shang, University of Waterloo (selection committee chair)
   - Klaus-Dieter Lange, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), USA
   - Alexander Podelko, Amazon, USA
   - Jianmei Guo, East China Normal University, China
   - Pooyan Jamshidi, University of South Carolina, USA
   - Heng Li, Polytechnique Montreal, Canada
   - Philipp Leitner, Chalmers/University of Gothenburg, Sweden
   - Jeromy Carrie, Datadog, USA
   - Junwen Yang, Meta, USA
   - Vittoria De Nitto Personè, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy

Contact

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