Student Paper Contest Guidelines

Deadline: All submissions must be received no later than May 1st, 2017

Note to authors submitting papers:

  • No more than four submissions are allowed per contributor, as author or co-author.
  • One of the author(s) of the paper must be physically present at the meeting and present the paper at the conference for the paper to be published in the proceedings. No exception is made to this policy.
  • The author presenting the paper at the conference must be registered for the conference.

The Asilomar Conference Student Paper Contest is designed to highlight the contributions of some of the best students throughout the world.

Qualification constraints

To qualify for the Student Paper Contest, submitted papers must meet the following guidelines:
  1. The first author on the papers must be a full-time undergraduate or graduate student at the time of submission of the paper.
  2. The first author must have contributed at least 50% to the technical content of the paper.
  3. The first author must be willing to present the paper in person at the conference in either poster or lecture form to be determined later.
  4. Papers must be submitted electronically. No submissions will be accepted by e-mail or regular mail.
  5. Full papers must be submitted by May 1st  in the requested two-column format.

Submissions received without the complete paper by May 1st  will be rejected. Student submitters must insure they check the box indicating interesting in being considered for the Student Paper Contest, which certifies that the above conditions are met. Papers must indicate the technical area in which the paper falls selecting ONE from the list below.

Technical Areas

Student submitters must indicate the technical area in which the paper falls by selecting ONE from the list below during the electronic submission process.

A.     Communications Systems

B.  MIMO Communications and Signal Processing

C. Networks

D.  Signal Processing  & Adaptive Systems

E.  Array Signal Processing

F. Biomedical Signal and Image Processing

G. Architecture and Implementation

H. Speech, Image & Video Processing

 

 

Submission practicalities

  1. The Student Paper Contest is separate from and held in parallel with the regular paper submission process, 

  2. Student authors wishing their papers to be considered for the Student Paper Contest must follow general submission procedures and meet the May 1st general submission deadline,

  3. In addition to general submission requirements, students must submit their complete five-page paper in two-column IEEE conference format electronically by the general May 1st submission deadline.

  4. Incomplete submissions (i.e., without the complete paper uploaded by the May 1st deadline) will not be considered for the contest.

  5. Student authors whose papers are selected by the Student Paper Contest committee of judges will be asked to present their papers in a special Poster Session on Sunday afternoon as well as in the regular session assigned to them through the regular submission process.  Hence, the student author of papers selected for the Student Paper Contest will be required to present the paper twice, once in the regular session and once in the special Student Paper Contest poster session.  Note that it is possible that student authors might have to present both a lecture version in the regular session and a poster version in the special Student Paper Contest poster session, since the regular session can be either lecture or poster.

  6. Notifications of selection for the Student paper contest will be e-mailed to the first authors by early July.

Student Paper Contest submission steps

  1. Go to submission site and enter author information, paper title, and abstract;
    Fill out completely the Title, Abstract, and author information on the web page;
  2. Select "Apply for Student Paper Contest" checkbox;
  3. Upload extended summary (needed for usual submission evaluation);
  4. Submit requested information (an e-mail confirmation with author/paper ID will be sent upon completion);
  5. Full papers must be submitted by May 1st  in the requested two-column format.

Submissions received without the complete paper by the submission deadline will be rejected. Student submitters must insure they check the box indicating interesting in being considered for the Student Paper Contest, which certifies that the above conditions are met. Papers must indicate the technical area in which the paper falls selecting ONE from the list below.

Judging Procedures

Prizes

Questions