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| ACM SIGCOMM Rising Star | |
|---|---|
| Name | ACM SIGCOMM Rising Star |
| Awarded for | Early-career contributions to computer networking research |
| Presenter | Association for Computing Machinery |
| Country | International |
ACM SIGCOMM Rising Star
The ACM SIGCOMM Rising Star is an early-career award presented by the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Data Communication to recognize promising contributions in computer networking and data communication. The prize highlights researchers whose work has influenced topics such as network architecture, congestion control, routing, distributed systems, and internet measurement, building on traditions established by awards like the Turing Award, ACM Prize in Computing, IEEE Internet Award, SIGCOMM Award, and IEEE John von Neumann Medal.
The award is administered by ACM through SIGCOMM committees and celebrates early-career achievements at the intersection of systems and theoretical work similar to milestones recognized by USENIX, IEEE, IETF, NSDI, SIGCOMM Conference, TOCS, and IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. Past practices mirror selection frameworks used by MacArthur Fellows Program, Royal Society, National Academy of Engineering, Gairdner Foundation, and European Research Council starting grants. Recipients are often active in communities around conferences like SIGCOMM, NSDI, OSDI, PODC, INFOCOM, and IMC and publish in venues such as ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, ACM Computing Surveys, IEEE Transactions on Networking, and Communications of the ACM.
Eligible nominees are early-career researchers typically within a time window analogous to eligibility for fellowships from NSF CAREER, ERC Starting Grant, Rhodes Scholarship alumni timeframes, or the early-career stages recognized by Sloan Research Fellowships and Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship. Selection emphasizes independent research contributions, impact comparable to work cited alongside researchers from MIT, Stanford University, UC Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon University, Princeton University, Harvard University, University of Cambridge, ETH Zurich, and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Criteria include evidence of influence seen in citations at venues like SIGMETRICS, VLDB, SOSP, SIGMOD, and patents filed with offices such as the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Nominations are solicited from the international community, following procedures analogous to nomination calls by ACM Awards Committee, IEEE Awards Board, Royal Society Fellowships, and selection panels at National Academies. Nominees must be proposed by peers, mentors, or institutional representatives from departments at institutions like Cornell University, University of Washington, Caltech, Columbia University, University of Toronto, EPFL, Tsinghua University, and Peking University. Evaluation panels include senior researchers from organizations such as Google Research, Microsoft Research, Facebook AI Research, Amazon Web Services, Bell Labs, IBM Research, and academic societies like SIGCOMM and ACM SIGOPS. Assessment considers publication records in conferences and journals including SIGCOMM Conference, NSDI, IMC, IEEE INFOCOM, ACM CCS, and awards such as Best Paper Awards at leading conferences.
Recipients often go on to receive further recognition from institutions such as National Science Foundation, Simons Foundation, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Packard Fellowship, MacArthur Fellows Program, Royal Society, Royal Society of Canada, and memberships in academies like National Academy of Engineering and American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Notable laureates have affiliations with labs and centers such as Broad Institute, CERN, Bell Labs, Microsoft Research Cambridge, Google Brain, Xerox PARC, and universities like Yale University, Brown University, Duke University, Rice University, University of California San Diego, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, and National University of Singapore. Awardees' work is often cited alongside foundational contributions by researchers from groups at AT&T Labs, Cisco Systems, Nokia Bell Labs, Juniper Networks, Intel Labs, and ARM Research.
The prize highlights emergent directions in networking theory and practice, influencing research agendas at venues like SIGCOMM, NSDI, SOSP, PODC, SIGMETRICS, and IMC. Awardees' innovations inform standards efforts at IETF, deployment strategies by operators such as Verizon, AT&T, BT Group, Deutsche Telekom, and Orange S.A., and product roadmaps at companies like Cisco Systems, Juniper Networks, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon. The recognition helps shape funding priorities at agencies including NSF, European Commission, DARPA, EPSRC, and NSERC and contributes to collaborations with consortia such as Open Networking Foundation, ETSI, ONF, and research initiatives at Horizon 2020.
The award is often compared to early-career honors such as the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award, IEEE Computer Society Young Computer Scientist Award, SIGMOD Jim Gray Dissertation Award, NSF CAREER Award, Sloan Research Fellowship, Packard Fellowship, and national early career awards from institutions like Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, DFG grants, and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions. Comparative assessments consider impact metrics used by Google Scholar, Scopus, Web of Science, and bibliometric analyses common in evaluations by Research Excellence Framework and university promotion committees.
Category:Computer networking awards