[DMANET] Call for Nominations - IEEE TCSC MCR Awards - 2021

Dear Colleagues:

Call for Nominations - IEEE TCSC Middle Career Researcher (MCR) Awards -
2021

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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 Middle Career Researcher (MCR) Award. The award includes an
award plaque that will be presented at the annual IEEE HPCC conference,
along with a public citation for the award on the IEEE TCSC website.

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IEEE TCSC Middle Career Researcher Award IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence in
Scalable Computing (Middle Career Researcher) recognizes up to 3
individuals who have made distinguished, influential, and on-going yet
towards long-lasting contributions in the field of scalable computing with
applications. Typically the candidates are within 5 to 15 years of
receiving their PhD degree as of January 01 of the year of the award.

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Nomination Materials for the MCR Award:
A candidate must be nominated by members of the community. 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) Name/email of person making the nomination (self-nominations are not
eligible)
(2) Name/email of the nominee
(3) A statement by the nominator (maximum of 500 words) as to why the
nominee is highly deserving of the award both on excellence and in relation
to IEEE TCSC.
(4) CV of the nominee
(5) Up to three support letters from persons other than the nominator -
these should be collected by the nominator and included in the nomination.
Members of selection committee cannot be nominators or referees.

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Important Dates:
- Nomination Deadline: December 07, 2021
- Results Notification: December 15, 2021

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Award Selection Committee:
- Bernady O. Apduhan, Kyushu Sangyo University, Japan, bob@is.kyusan-u.ac.jp
- Jinjun Chen (Chair), Swinburne University of Technology, Australia,
jchen@swin.edu.au
- Beniamino Di Martino, Universita' della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy,
beniamino.dimartino@unicampania.it
- Didier El Baz, LAAS-CNRS, France, elbaz@laas.fr

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Award & Presentation Note:
Awardees will be presented a plaque and will be recognized by IEEE TCSC in
its website, newsletter and archives. The awards for 2021 will be presented
at IEEE HPCC-2021, Dec 2021 in Hainan, China.

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