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| ACM Student Research Competition | |
|---|---|
| Name | ACM Student Research Competition |
| Discipline | Computer science |
| Country | International |
| Established | 1999 |
| Organizer | Association for Computing Machinery |
ACM Student Research Competition
The ACM Student Research Competition is an international scholarly competition for undergraduate and graduate students organized by the Association for Computing Machinery and hosted at major conferences such as SIGGRAPH, CHI, and SOSP. The program connects student researchers with professional societies and venues including IEEE, ACM SIGPLAN, ACM SIGCOMM, ACM SIGMOD, and ACM SIGARCH, promoting work linked to conferences like ACM SIGMETRICS, ACM Multimedia, and ACM CCS.
The program began in 1999 under auspices of the Association for Computing Machinery and early partners such as Microsoft Research, IBM Research, and Bell Labs; subsequent collaborations involved entities like Intel, Google Research, Cisco Systems, and NSF. Over time the competition expanded across conferences including PLDI, POPL, ICSE, FSE, KDD, ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR, and CHI EA, reflecting trends also seen at SIGGRAPH Asia, Eurosys, and EuroSys. Milestones include integration with award programs at ACM Awards, coordination with committees from ACM Council, and influence on initiatives from institutions such as Stanford University, MIT, UC Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon University, and University of Cambridge.
Eligibility rules align with policies from organizers like ACM SIGSOFT, ACM SIGPLAN, ACM SIGCHI, ACM SIGCOMM, and conference steering committees such as SIGGRAPH Executive Committee, SIGMOD Advisory Board, and SIGOPS. Categories traditionally separate undergraduate and graduate contestants, with variations at conferences like CHI, SIGGRAPH, and SIGMOD; sponsors including Google, Facebook, Amazon, SAP, HP Labs have influenced prize structures. Entrants typically register through conference submission systems used by EasyChair, HotCRP, and CMT according to membership criteria of ACM Student Chapters, IEEE Student Branches, and university departments at places such as Harvard University, University of Oxford, Princeton University, ETH Zurich, and Tsinghua University.
Regional and conference-level rounds follow procedures coordinated by program chairs from SIGCHI Conference Chairs, SIGGRAPH Papers Chairs, SIGCOMM Program Committees, and steering committees such as NeurIPS Program Committee, ICML Program Committee, and KDD Conference Organizing Committee. Typical formats include poster sessions alongside oral presentations similar to sessions at FCRC, ACM SIGCOMM Workshop, ACM SAC, and ESEC/FSE. Entrants prepare materials compatible with conference proceedings from ACM Digital Library, IEEE Xplore, and repositories like arXiv, with judging sessions sometimes taking place during plenary slots used by ACM Turing Award ceremonies and keynote sessions led by speakers from Google DeepMind, OpenAI, Microsoft Research Redmond, and Facebook AI Research.
Judging panels draw on program committee members from ACM SIGMOD, SIGPLAN, SIGMETRICS, SIGARCH, SIGCOMM, and guest judges from National Science Foundation, DARPA, European Research Council, Wellcome Trust, and corporate labs such as IBM Research Yorktown Heights, Intel Labs, Bell Labs Research, AT&T Labs, and Samsung Research. Awards include first, second, and third prizes at conference levels and a Grand Final awarded at events tied to ACM CouncilACM Awards cycles, with recognition from entities like IEEE Computer Society, Association for Computational Linguistics, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, and professional societies at SIGPLAN Symposiums. Prize packages often feature travel grants from ACM SIGs, cash or equipment sponsored by NVIDIA, Intel, Google, and internships or fellowships linked to institutions such as Microsoft Research Cambridge and IBM Watson.
The competition has highlighted student work that later influenced projects at Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, NVIDIA Research, and academic labs at MIT CSAIL, Stanford AI Lab, Berkeley AI Research, and CMU Robotics Institute. Notable alumni and finalists have included students who became faculty or researchers at Stanford University, MIT, Princeton University, Carnegie Mellon University, UC Berkeley, University of California, San Diego, University of Toronto, ETH Zurich, and Tsinghua University, and contributors to major initiatives such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, Kubernetes, LLVM, Linux Kernel, React, MapReduce, and Hadoop. The program's visibility has been noted in coverage linked to events like SIGGRAPH Art Papers, CHI Late-Breaking Work, and award announcements at ACM SIGCOMM Conference.
Organization is administered by the Association for Computing Machinery in partnership with conference-specific SIGs including ACM SIGGRAPH, ACM SIGCHI, ACM SIGPLAN, ACM SIGCOMM, ACM SIGMOD, ACM SIGARCH, and ACM SIGSOFT. Sponsorship has historically come from corporate research labs and funding bodies such as Microsoft Research, Google Research, IBM Research, Intel, NVIDIA, Amazon Web Services, Facebook AI Research, National Science Foundation, European Research Council, and private foundations like Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and The Wellcome Trust. Administrative coordination involves volunteers from university chapters at Harvard University, Stanford University, University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, University of Toronto, and professional event services used by Informa, ACM Conferences, and conference platforms such as ConfTool.
Category:Academic competitions