ICPC Vaclav Rajlich Early Career Achievement Award

Call for Nominations

ICPC Vaclav Rajlich Early Career Achievement Award

This award is presented to an individual who has made outstanding contributions in the area of program comprehension as an early career investigator.

To be eligible for nomination for the award, individuals’ most recent computer-related educational degree (baccalaureate, masters, or doctoral degree) must have been awarded no more than seven years prior to the date of nomination. The 7-year window may be extended for extenuating circumstances such as parental or medical leave. Extenuating circumstances must be described in the nomination statement for the committee’s deliberation (the committee reserves the right to accept or deny the consideration of the extenuating circumstances).

The award recipient receives a $1000 honorarium. The award will be announced by the ICPC General Chair at ICPC during ICPC’s award presentation session. The award recipient will receive travel support of up to $4000 to attend ICPC and present their work at Wayne State as a colloquium speaker, where they will be presented with a plaque engraved with their name and signed by the General Chair and Steering Committee Chair of ICPC and the Department Chair of Wayne State University.

To submit a nomination for the award, please use HotCRP as the awards nomination portal. Please note that:

An intent to nominate must be submitted in the nomination system by Feb 16, 2024. The intent submission is very lightweight and only requires (1) the full name and affiliation of the nominee and (2) the contact information of the nominator. If no intent is received by the deadline, the nomination will be deemed late and not considered for this round of award selection. Self-nomination is not allowed.

A single PDF containing the nomination package must be submitted through the portal to complete the submission by Feb 19, 2024. The PDF should contain the following: Full name and affiliation of the nominee;

• Curriculum vitae of the nominee;
• Proposed citation (up to 25 words);
• A succinct description of why the nominee is well-qualified for the award (100-250 words);
• Detailed nomination statement (no length limit, but please be reasonable);
• Up to three support letters (200-300 words will be sufficient for each support letter, although longer statements of support are of course welcome). Each support letter must include the following sentence: “To the best of my knowledge, the candidate I am endorsing has not committed any action that violates the ACM Code of ethics or IEEE Code of Ethics and ACM’s or IEEE Core Values.

The selection committee shall have the option to decline to make an award in a given year, if no suitable nominations are presented. If you have questions about this award, please contact anita.sarma (at) oregonstate (dot) edu.

Selection Committee

• Anita Sarma
• Venera Arnaoudova
• Raula Gaikovina Kula
• Fabio Palomba
• Federica Sarro
• Bonita Sharif

[Notes about Selection Committee: Current Steering Committee members, unless a member has a COI with a nominee (e.g., ACM COI) or is a nominator, then they should recuse themselves from the selection committee. We should have at least 4 committee members, if we need additional committee members, we can ask past Steering Committee chairs to participate.]