Dear Colleagues,
I hope this message finds you well in these difficult times.
The IEEE TCDE (Technical Committee of Data Engineering) is delighted to announce the 2021 call for nominations for the IEEE TCDE awards. The goal of these highly prestigious awards is to encourage innovative long term contributions to the field of data engineering. Please read the descriptions here (also attached at the end of this message for your convenience):
http://tab.computer.org/tcde/tcdeawards.html
Please think of your colleagues who would merit the honour of a TCDE award, and nominate them!
If you have any questions, the committee and I would be delighted to answer so please do not hesitate to contact me.
Please send me nominations over email (natassa@epfl.ch) by February 12. I will reply and acknowledge every message.
On behalf go the Awards committee, thank you so much for your consideration, and please stay safe!
Anastasia Ailamaki
Chair, 2021 IEEE TCDE Awards Committee
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IEEE TCDE Rising Star Award
This award is based on an individual's whole body of work in the first five years after the PhD. The award aims to promote current database researchers as they create their career.
Eligibility: The candidate should have completed all the requirements for the PhD no earlier than December 31, 2015; parental leaves will move the date by the duration of the parental leave. The candidate can be anyone except the current officers of IEEE TCDE and members of the IEEE TCDE Awards Committee.
Nomination Process: Anyone in the field can nominate one person (self-nominations are excluded). Nominations should include a proposed citation (up to 25 words) and a detailed statement to justify the nomination (500 words or less). Three supporting letters should be submitted. Both the nomination and the letters need to address the significance of the contributions in the first five years after the PhD cited in the nomination. Recipients of other major database awards are eligible if the TCDE nomination is for different contributions. Nominations must be received by Febuary 12, 2021 to be considered for this year's award. Please include a detailed CV for nominee in the nomination. Nominations that did not result in an award can be resubmitted or updated in subsequent years as long as the eligibility conditions for the award still hold. The Awards Committee will evaluate all nominations and decide on zero or more winners.
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IEEE TCDE Impact Award
This award recognizes database researchers whose research contributed to expanding the data engineering field in one of the following ways.
Interdisciplinary. Impact beyond the data engineering field.
Practice. Impact beyond research to industrial practice.
Expansion. Impact resulting in expansion of the data engineering field itself.
Eligibility: The candidate(s) can be anyone except the current officers of IEEE TCDE and members of the IEEE TCDE Awards Committee.
Nomination Process: Anyone in the field can put forward a nomination (self-nominations are excluded). Nominations should include a proposed citation (up to 25 words) and a detailed statement to justify the nomination (500 words or less). The nomination should explicitly indicate the specific nature of the impact (expanding data engineering through interdisciplinary work, though impact on practice, or by expanding the data engineering field itself). Three supporting letters should be submitted. The letters need to address the significance of the contributions cited in the nomination. Recipients of other major database awards are eligible if the TCDE nomination is for different contributions. The nomination and letters should describe the difference and the impact of the new contributions, emphasizing how they expand the data engineering field. Nominations must be received by Febuary 12, 2021 to be considered for this year's award. Please include a detailed CV for the nominee in the nomination. Nominations that did not result in an award can be resubmitted or updated in subsequent years. The Awards Committee will evaluate all nominations and decide on zero or more winners.
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IEEE TCDE Education Award
This award recognizes database researchers who have had impact on data engineering education, including impact on the next generation of data engineering practitioners and researchers.
Eligibility: The candidate(s) can be anyone except the current officers of IEEE TCDE and members of the IEEE TCDE Awards Committee.
Nomination Process: Anyone in the field can put forward a nomination (self-nominations are excluded). Nominations should include a proposed citation (up to 25 words) and a detailed statement to justify the nomination (500 words or less). Three supporting letters should be submitted. The letters need to address the significance of the contributions to education cited in the nomination. Recipients of other major database awards are eligible if the TCDE nomination is for different contributions. Nominations must be received by Febuary 12, 2021 to be considered for this year's award. Please include a detailed CV for nominee in the nomination. Nominations that did not result in an award can be resubmitted or updated in subsequent years. The Awards Committee will evaluate all nominations and decide on zero or more winners.
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IEEE TCDE Service Award
This award recognizes an individual who has contributed significantly to ICDE, TCDE, and the data engineering community in general.
Eligibility: The candidate can be anyone except the current officers of IEEE TCDE and members of the IEEE TCDE Awards Committee.
Nomination Process: Anyone in the field can put forward a nomination (self-nominations are excluded). Nominations should include a proposed citation (up to 25 words) and a detailed statement to justify the nomination (500 words or less). Three supporting letters should be submitted. The letters need to address the significance of the service contributions cited in the nomination. Recipients of other major database awards are eligible if the TCDE nomination is for different contributions. Nominations must be received by Febuary 12, 2021 to be considered for this year's award. Please include a detailed CV for nominee in the nomination. Nominations that did not result in an award can be resubmitted or updated in subsequent years. The Awards Committee will evaluate all nominations and decide on zero or more winners.
All Awards
All nominations should be sent to the IEEE TCDE Awards Committee Chair, Anastasia Ailamaki (anastasia.ailamaki@epfl.ch).
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2021 IEEE TCDE Awards Committee
Anastasia Ailamaki (chair)
Michael Carey
Sunita Sarawagi
Paolo Atzeni
Magdalena Balazinska
Val Tannen
Wang-Chiew Tan
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