AP Regional Awards

Asia/Pacific Young Researcher Award
sponsored by
IEEE Asia/Pacific (APB) Board

This award honors researchers who have been very active in IEEE ComSoc publication and conference activities over the last 3 years.

• The upper age limit is 35.
• Applicants must be members in the Asia Pacific region.
• The "IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Young Researcher Award" will be given to the best candidate.
• The candidates not selected are eligible for the award of “Outstanding Young Researcher(s)” which can be issued at the same time.

Award Prize

• The recipient of “IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Young Researcher Award” will receive a plaque and honorarium of US$500.
• Each outstanding young researcher will receive a plaque and honorarium of US$250.

Selection Process

APB shall establish a selection committee, which will determine the award recipient(s) from among the eligible applicants. The committee will then determine the outstanding young researcher(s) from the remaining applicants.

Each applicant must send the application form to IEEE ComSoc APB TAC chair before the deadline.

• Application form should include the followings
• Applicant’s biography
• A list of publication and conference activities over the last 3 years.
• Description of main topics/thesis of the applicant over the last 3 years. (A4 1 page)
• The cover page should contain the applicant's name, affiliation, address, telephone, fax number and e-mail address.

Application submission due

• July 1: Application submission due
• October 1: Announcement of awardees
• December: Award ceremony in Globecom.

Each application must be sent to the following address by e-mail.
APB Technical Affairs Committee: APB-OFFICERS-TAC [at] ieee [dot] org
(for email go to http://www.comsoc.org/about/boards/member-relations)

Questions should be directed to:
Prof. Wanjiun Liao
Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University
Taipei, Taiwan
TEL: +886-233663548, FAX: +852-223646710
E-mail: wjliao [at] ntu [dot] edu [dot] tw

The 6th IEEE ComSoc APB Young Rearcher Award

IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Outstanding Paper Award

Motion 11:18: “That the BoG approve an annual ComSoc Asia/Pacific Outstanding Paper Award sponsored by the IEEE Asia-Pacific Board given for an original paper authored by a ComSoc member/members in Asia/Pacific Region published in a ComSoc journal/conference in the previous 3 calendar years; prize is a plaque and honorarium up to US $500.” Approved BoG2 2011

Prize

Plaque and honorarium up to US $ 500 (award total)

Eligibility

Given to an outstanding paper authored by ComSoc Members in Asia-Pacific Region and published in IEEE ComSoc journals or conferences in the previous 3 calendar years. All authors’ affiliations must be from Asia-Pacific region at the time the paper is published. The paper should be nominated by ComSoc members in Asia-Pacific region. No self-nomination is acceptable.

Basis of Judging

Quality, originality, utility, timeliness, and clarity of presentation.

Nominee Solicitation and Selection Process

APB shall sponsor the award and establish a selection committee. Nominations shall be solicited by the committee chair; committee will select an award recipient from among the eligible nominees.

Presentation

Presented annually by the selection committee chair at APB meeting at IEEE ICC (International Conference on Communication).

Nomination Form

Each nomination should include:

• Cover page with nominator’s name, affiliation, address, telephone, fax, and email.
• Information about nominated paper: title, authors’ names, affiliations, source, publication month/year, contact information.
• Copy of the nominated paper
• Letter of recommendation (up to A4 1 page)

Application submission due: (see the current “Call for Nominations” for details)
Each nomination must be e-mailed to APB Technical Affairs Committee at APB-OFFICERS-TAC [at] ieee [dot] org
(or see the current “Call for Nominations” for details)

APCC Best Paper Award

Purpose

The award is presented to the authors whose work presented at an annual Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications (APCC) is recognized to be outstanding.

Name

The name of the award is “APCC Best Paper Award”.

Award Committee

The Award Committee, organized under the guidance of APCC Steering Committee, is responsible for selecting and making the award from among all the papers presented at a specific APCC.

Members of the Award Committee

The members of the Award Committee consists of

• the representatives from CIC, IEEE COMSOC APB, IEICE-CS and KICS, which sponsor the award by donating USD 500 per year
• TPC chair of the specific APCC
• ASC Chair and ASC secretary

In case a member of the committee is also the author or co-author of shortlisted papers, then a nominee of the member will represent the member in the award selection process.

Number of the Award

The Award Committee will determine the number of awards to be given out in a specific APCC. This will be limited to a maximum of four awards at any one APCC.

Award format

Every author of an awarded paper will be presented with a certificate. Each awarded paper will also receive a cash honorarium with an amount equivalent to USD 300.

As an option, conference organizers may wish to add some small local souvenir gifts as part of the award.

Selection method

• The Award Committee requests the TPC Chair of the conference to nominate 7 to 10 papers based on their review scores. These scores will not be made known to members of the award committee prior to the final decision of the award.
• Members of the Award Committee will review and score each of the nominated papers.
• The winning papers together with a few runners-ups are selected based on the combined scores of the Award Committee members and the TPC reviews in the ratio of 1:1. It is possible that some considerations/adjustments on certain issues, such as regional balance, (e.g., regional balance, etc.) may be necessary in the final selection of the awarded papers.
• The members of the Award Committee will make sure that the winning papers have been orally presented at the conference. If no oral presentation is made by a winning paper, then the runner up paper, which receives the highest score and has been presented, will be chosen in its place.
  
  Comment: Since the awards are given out during the conference banquet, normally held on the second day of the conference, it is necessary to make sure that those winning papers scheduled for the last day of the conference will in fact be presented.
  

Fund for the awards

The awards are supported by the cash donations from KICS, IEICE-CS, CIC, and IEEE COMSOC APB. The ASC Secretary will receive from each organization a cash donation of USD 500 per year.

(APB  (ComSoc) is expected to give the APCC organization US$1000 every two years.)

APCC Steering Committee