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The science competitions your students can enter this year

By Emma Molloy

Discover STEM-themed competitions for you and your students to enter in this academic year

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Learn about the fantastic array of science competitions your students can enter – so you can sign up as soon as possible

There is a great range of science competitions out there that your students can enter. Competitions come in all shapes and sizes, including essay writing, photography and video competitions, and can be local or national events.

Besides the array of downloadable materials you can make use of in your lessons, as homework or part of a science club, the benefits of taking part include learning how to work in a team, grasping how lessons apply to real-world problems, and there could even be some extra cash to bag!

You can jump straight to the lists of science-writing competitions , or more arty competitions (such as photography and drawing prizes), or simply read on to discover what’s open to you and your students this academic year.

These competitions have been ordered by closing date. Listing a competition does not serve as an endorsement by the RSC.  Last updated: April 2024.

BIEA Youth STEAM Competition

Age: 6–18 Registration opens:  October 2023 Closes: April 2024 for first-round submissions

The  BIEA Youth STEAM Competition  asks students to use their creativity to come up with ideas for a more sustainable future based on a specific theme. The theme for 2024 has yet to be announced, but the theme for 2023 was “developing solutions for sustainable cities”. Students research, design and present their solution, including a written report.

Students can enter as individuals or in teams of up to five members and schools can enter more than one team. There are lots of competition categories to cover all age groups. Submissions are expected to be accepted from January 2024 and the international final to be in July 2024. Learn more on the competition  website .

Royal College of Science Union (RCSU) Science Challenge

Age: 14–18 Registration opens:  1 March 2024 Closes: 26 April 2024

Imperial College London’s RCSU Science Challenge is all about science communication – requiring students to demonstrate their skills in debate and reasoning and teach the public about science and its consequences. Questions on a given theme are set by eminent scientists – who even read the shortlisted entries, so there’s a real chance students’ work will be seen by world-leading academics. This year’s theme is Hidden depth.

Students can answer one of the questions in either written or video form of up to 1000 words or three minutes, 30 seconds, respectively. Winners receive cash prizes, plus there are non-cash prizes for the runners up.

Shortlisted candidates will be invited to the grand final on 21 June 2024 at the Royal Institution, where they will deliver a short presentation. Find more information about taking part on the  challenge website .

Unsung Heroes of Science video competition

Age: 16–18 Close s: 30 April 2024

The International  Unsung Heroes of Science video competition   from Hertford College, University of Oxford is open to all 16–18 students. Entrants are tasked with making a two-minute video sharing the story of a scientist whose contributions were overlooked. Entries can be submitted by individuals or in teams of up to three.

The competition website also has lesson plans and links to videos of previous unsung heros, which are great resources for teachers to inspire their students.

Science meets art

If you have some students who would be hooked by the artistic side of science, check out these competitions:

• RSB Photography competition (open to all ages; opens March 2024; £500 top prize for under 18s)
• RSB Nancy Rothwell Award for specimen drawing (ages 7–18; open March–July 2024; prizes include set of drawing pencils and small cash prizes for students and schools)
• Science Without Borders challenge is an artwork competition with a focus on ocean conservation. The 2024 theme is ‘hidden wonders of the deep’ (ages 11–19; closes 4 March 2024; maximum prize of $500)
• British Science Week poster competition ; this year’s theme will be ‘time’ (ages 3–14; closes March 2024)
• RPS Woman Science Photographer of the Year is open to women of all ages and backgrounds (open and under 18s; closing date TBC but expected March 2024)
• Minds Underground Competitions ; Minds Underground run a number of essay competitions each year covering a variety of STEM and other topics (all ages; closing dates vary but 2024 questions will be released January 2024, see website for full details)

Stockholm UK Junior Water Prize

Age: 15–20 Submissions open: 29 Feb 2024 Submission deadline: 13 May 2024

This prize challenges young people in STEM to develop innovative yet practical solutions to the global water crisis. Entrants decide on a topic or problem that they want to investigate and undertake background research and experimental work before submitting a full written report.

Students whose reports are shortlisted get to present their work virtually to the judges. The winning UK entry receives £1,000 cash prize and a fully funded trip to represent the UK and their school at the Stockholm Junior Water Prize competition in Sweden in August and be in with a chance to win the international grand prize of US$15,000!

Learn more on the  website .

UKBC Biology Challenge

Age: 13–15 Registration opens: now open Competition dates: 1–17 May 2024

The Biology Challenge is a fun, annual competition open to students aged 13–15 in the UK. The challenge compromises of two, 25-minute, multiple-choice papers, and students need to complete both papers to be considered for an award category.

The questions set cover the school curriculum, but also caters to budding biologists whose knowledge has been enhanced by reading books and magazines, watching natural history programmes and taking a keen interest in all things biology.

Practice papers are available to help students prepare. The competition is free to enter for UK schools and participants receive an e-certificate that recognises their category of achievement.

Find more information and register your school to take part on the  Biology Challenge website .

Science writing competitions

Numerous essays competitions run each year covering all aspects and areas of STEM. Below is just a selection of some of the competitions out there. Entries into science writing competitions make great additions to UCAS applications, and they get students thinking about science, too.

• The Oxford Scientist Schools’ Science Writing Competition  (700-word magazine article; ages 15–18; deadline likely to be July 2024; prize includes £50 and being published in the magazine)
• Newnham College, Camb ridge (2000-word academic essay; age 16–18 women at state school only; deadline 8 July 2024; winners receive up to £400 to split with their school). Teachers can sign up to mailing lists now to hear more about this essay competition and other events from the college.

Cambridge Chemistry Challenge

Age: 19 or younger Registration opens: now Closes:  1 June 2024

This competition — aimed at Year 12 students but available to younger students — is designed to stretch and challenge students beyond the curriculum interested in chemistry and is excellent experience for anyone considering chemistry for further study.

Students sit a 90-minute written paper under exam conditions in school, which is sent out to schools in advance. Mark schemes are available to teachers, and for schools submitting more than five scripts, these should be marked by the teacher. Scripts of students scoring over 50% are then submitted. Students who perform well receive a certificate and the best performers are invited to join a residential camp at the University of Cambridge at the end of August

The website contains lots of past papers and mark schemes, which are a valuable resource for teachers. Full details are on the  website .

Local to Newcastle?

Newcastle Secondary School SciFair  is a university-run secondary school science fair for students from state schools across Newcastle. Sci-Fair is a whole day event that will take place during British Science Week. Students can get the opportunity to present their models, posters or PowerPoint presentations about a scientific topic of their choosing. SciFair is open to ages 11–16. There are multiple prizes to be won on the day to recognise student’s efforts. Spaces are limited capacity, so students should wait for their projects to be approved before starting work.

UKBC Intermediate Biology Olympiad

Age: Students in first year of 16+ education Registration opens: now open Competition dates: 5–12 June 2024

This international, annual competition is open to students in the first year of post-16 education in the UK. The competition consists of a one-hour multiple choice paper that is taken online under formal exam conditions. Questions cover topics students will be familiar with alongside some new concepts to test their problem-solving skills and understanding of core principals.

Practice papers are available to print to help students prepare. The competition is free to enter for UK schools and participants receive an e-certificate that recognises their level of achievement.

Find more information, including registering your school to take part, on the UKBC website .

IET Faraday Challenge

Age: 12–13 Registration opens: January 2024 for the 2024–2025 season Closes: July 2024

Faraday Challenges are cross-curricular STEM activity days for UK schools run by the Institution of Engineering and Technology. This annual competition draws on students’ practical science and engineering skills, asking them to work in teams to solve real-world engineering problems and think creatively. Schools can host Challenge Days and invite teams from local schools to join them or apply to join a day at another school. Planning for these events starts early, so plenty of time to get organised for the day.

Teams should be made up of six students aged 12–13 years old (England and Wales Year 8, Scotland S1/S2, Northern Ireland Year 9). Schools may host a challenge day themselves or attend one hosted at another school.

Students win prizes for themselves and a trophy for their school. There is also a national league table and the top teams from across the UK go through to the national final, with the chance to win a cash prize of up to £1000 for their school. Plus, by taking part students will also meet the criteria for achieving a CREST Discovery Award.

If you are not able to enter into the main competition, there is also the opportunity for students to take part in the Virtual Faraday Challenge open to anyone aged 7–15.

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British science week poster competition.

Age: 3–14 Registration opened: January 2024 Closes: March 2024

British Science Week will run from 8–17 March. Alongside numerous activities and events across the country, there will be a themed poster competition – and this year’s theme will is ‘time’.

Entrants can explore a wide range of ideas covered by the broad theme. Judges are on the look out for an innovative angle or creative interpretation of the theme; clear, accurate and informative content; and effective, engaging communication. This competition is a great way for students to practise their communication skills. There are numerous prizes up for grabs that cover all age categories.

Entrants can be teams or individuals from any organisation, although schools are limited to five entries. Find out more on the  website , including activity packs and other resources to make the most of British Science Week.

Big Bang Young Scientists and Engineers Competition

Age: 11–18 Registration opens:  October 2023 Closes: 27 March 2024

The Big Bang Competition  is open to young people aged 11 to 18 in state-funded education or who are home educated or who enter as part of a community group. Private school participants can get involved as part of a collaboration with state-school peers.

Participants complete project-based work, focusing on investigation, discovery and use of scientific methods. Students choose their own STEM topic and work to submit their project as a written report or short video. The possibilities are endless!

Students can include their involvement in the competition in their extracurricular activities on UCAS forms and personal statements and have a chance of winning a range of awards and cash prizes.

Find out how to get started and get inspired with past projects on the  Big Bang website .

MathWorks Math Modeling challenge

Age: 16–19 (England and Wales only) Registration opens:  November 2023 Closes: 24 February 2024

The  M3 Challenge  is an internet-based applied maths competition that inspires participants to pursue STEM education and careers. Working in teams of three to five students, participants have 14 consecutive hours to solve an open-ended maths-modelling problem based around a real issue during the challenge weekend, 1–4 March 2024.

The problem typically has a socially conscious theme – equity, the environment, conservation or recycling, energy use, health, and other topics that young people care about. The challenge gives students the opportunity to use maths modelling processes to represent, analyse, make predictions and otherwise provide insight into real-world phenomena. For example, 2023’s problem centred around modelling the impacts of e-bikes to better understand if they are likely to become part of a global, more sustainable energy plan.

Numerous free  resources , including modelling and coding handbooks, videos and sample problems are available to help teams prepare for the event.

The competition’s final presentation and awards ceremony event is held in New York City in late April – an all-expense paid experience for the finalist teams. These top teams will be awarded scholarships toward the pursuit of higher education, with members of the overall winning team receiving $20,000 (»£16,000).

For rules, resources and to register, visit the competition  website .

The Cambridge Upper Secondary Science Competition

Age: 16–18 Registration opens: now Closes:  30 September 2023 and 31 March 2024

The  Cambridge Upper Secondary Science Competition , run by Cambridge Assessment, is an exciting extra-curricular activity for teams of aspiring scientists who are studying with the Cambridge IGCSE or O Level science programmes.

Teams of three to six students choose a topic and work on a scientific investigation over 20–25 hours. The competition encourages investigations with some practical or community relevance and an eye on sustainability.

Projects may involve laboratory work and should include creative and collaborative working, critical thinking and reflection. Students should be given the opportunity to present their results to a wider audience, perhaps at a science fair or other school event.

Teachers provide initial project evaluations and the best are put forward for consideration by a panel of experts. The winning team receives a certificate and is featured on the competition website. The competition runs twice a year, so keep abreast of all the dates  on the website .

TeenTech Awards 

Age: 11–16 Registration opens: now Closes:  March 2024 for first-round submissions

The  TeenTech Awards  encourage students to see how they might apply science and technology to real-world problems across several different categories, from food and retail through the future of transport to wearable technology. Students identify an opportunity or a problem, suggest a solution and research the market.

Students can work in teams of up to three people and there are lots of award categories. All submitted projects receive feedback and a bronze, silver or gold award. The event is well supported with training sessions for teachers and students, so everyone knows what to expect and what the judges will be looking for!

The best projects go forward to the TeenTech Awards Final for judging and the winning school in each category will receive a cash prize. The final is expected to take place in London in June 2024.

Schools’ Analyst

Age: 16–17 Registration opens: soon Closes: 23 February 2024

The  Schools’ Analyst Competition  is returning to schools in 2024. Run collaboratively by the Analytical Chemistry Trust Fund and the Royal Society of Chemistry, this event allows students to expand their chemistry knowledge and skills through practical analytical experiments. Students must be in Year 12 (England, Wales, NI)/S5 (Scotland)/5th Year (Ireland).

Schools and colleges register their interest to host a heat and, if randomly selected, can now enter up to 25 teams of three students to compete to be crowned the overall school winner. Each winning school team will then compete within their region to find regional winners. Regional winners receive a cash prize for themselves and their school.

Register your school  to take part by 23 February 2024. To take part, students only need access to standard school laboratory equipment and some consumables (a bursary is available for those who need it).

Equipment boxes are sent to 400 entrants, selected at random, and delivered in advance of the event. Results must be submitted by 17 May in Ireland (to ensure schools have the chance to award winners before the summer holidays) and 14 June elsewhere.

Slingshot Challenge

Age: 13–18 Registration opens: now Closes: 1 February 2024

The  Slingshot Challenge  is run by National Geographic and is an exciting opportunity for students to get involved with the global programme. Students can enter in teams of up to six. Individual entries are welcomed although all entries are expected to involve collaboration with peers, stakeholders, and/or marginalized communities.

Students work to prepare a short, 1-minute video, from topics with an environmental focus. Training sessions for teachers and resource/tool kits are available from the website and the providers can offer feedback and technical support ahead of official submissions.

Videos are expected to put forward compelling, evidence-based information and be engaging for the audience. A small number of motivating prizes are awarded each year to the student of up to $10,000.

For full details see the  Slingshot Challenge website .

UK Chemistry Olympiad 

Age: 16–18 (recommended) Registration opens: September 2023 Closes: January 2024

Run by the RSC, the  UK Chemistry Olympiad  is designed to challenge and inspire older secondary-school students, by encouraging them to push themselves, boost their critical problem-solving skills and test their knowledge in real-world situations.  Explore past papers  to get an idea of the types of questions involved.

There are three rounds that culminate with the prestigious  International Chemistry Olympiad , which will take place this year in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Round 1, a written test taken in your school, is scheduled to take place on 25 January 2024. Students then receive bronze, silver or gold certificates depending on their scores. Up to 30 students will then be selected to move on to the second round – a training weekend at the University of Nottingham. Four students will then be chosen to represent the UK in the international competition from 21–30 July 2024.

To get started, register your school or college. Do this and find out more information about preparing on the  Olympiad homepage .

Top of the Bench

Age: 14–16 Registration opens: soon Closes: January 2024

Top of the Bench  (TOTB) is an annual practical chemistry competition that has been running for over 20 years. It’s a long-standing favourite for students and teachers, and provides an opportunity for students to put their teamwork and practical skills to the test.

Regional heats are led by  RSC local sections  between October and January. The winning team from each heat progresses to the national final, held in the spring at a UK university (where there is also a session for teachers to explore resources and classroom ideas with one of the RSC’s education coordinators).

First prize is awarded to the best overall school performance, with five teams receiving runners up prizes. The Jacqui Clee Award is also awarded each year to the student who makes an outstanding individual contribution.

Teams must consist of four students: two from year 9/S2; one from year 10/S3; one from year 11/S4.

Find more information including past papers and how to apply on the  TOTB homepage .

Imperial College Science & Innovation Competition

Age:  4–adult Registration opens:  September  2023 Closes:  15 December 2023

The  Science & Innovation Competition , run by the Faculty of Natural Sciences at Imperial College, aims to motivate primary and secondary-aged children to engage with science, to encourage them to work as part of a team and engage in fun activities. Adults are also welcome to enter.

Teams of two to four people are asked to develop a new and innovative scientific solution to help achieve one of the  United Nation’s Global Goals for Sustainable Development . To enter, teams need to create a five-minute film that describes the science behind their idea. Finalists are invited to take part in an event during spring 2024 at Imperial College, London (date to be confirmed). Learn more on the  website .

Global essay competition: Young voices in the chemical sciences for sustainability

Age: 35 and under  Registration opens: now Closes: 31 March 2023

An  annual essay competition  on the role of the chemical sciences in sustainability, organised by the International Organization for Chemical Sciences in Development (IOCD) in collaboration with the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). The competition is open globally to entrants under 35 years of age. The theme for the 2023 competition is: How can the chemical sciences lead the stewardship of the Earth’s element resources?

Essays will be grouped into seven regions for shortlisting and selection of winners, based on the entrant’s country of normal residence. Each regional winner will receive a prize of US$500 and their entries will be published in  RSC Sustainability . The shortlisted essays will be collected in an annual compendium,  Young voices in the chemical sciences for sustainability , available on the IOCD’s website. Individual shortlisted entries will also be featured from time to time on IOCD’s website.

Essays will be judged on how well they highlight the importance of scientific approaches grounded in the chemical sciences for solving sustainability challenges. Entrants should take a broad, global perspective, and reflect on the intersection of science, society and policy aspects, rather than describing a particular scientific advance in great technical detail. Essays must not exceed 1500 words of body copy.

Cambridge Chemistry Race

Age: 16–18 Registration opens: Mon 5 December 2022 Closes: February 2023

In the  Cambridge Chemistry Race , teams of 3–5 students solve as many theoretical problems as they can over the course of two hours – ranging from easy riddles to tasks of A-level difficulty and complex chemical problems.

Once a team has solved a question, the examiner verifies their answer and hands them the next question. Points are awarded based on the number of successful attempts. Whoever gets the most points wins!

Students are allowed to use a calculator, books, notes, and printed literature. The challenge aims to test problem-solving skills and chemical understanding rather than knowledge. Explore past questions and solutions  here  to get an idea of what’s in store.

Schools may only enter one team each and places are first come first served.

The competition is run in collaboration with the University of Cambridge’s Department of Chemistry. This year, it is joined by the University of Oxford too, so students may compete in either city. The competition will take place on Saturday 4 February 2023. Learn more on the  competition website .

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Student Paper Competitions

Dates to remember.

Abstract Submission Begins: 26 March 2024

Abstract Submission Deadline: 23 May 2024, 8:00 p.m. ET

Author Notification: 26 August 2024

Manuscript Deadline: 2 December 2024, 8:00 p.m. ET

*Dates are subject to change.

 Abstract Submission Process & Requirements  Technical Presenter Resources    Submit an Abstract

Student Eligibility and Submission Requirements

Student Eligibility Requirements:

• Student author(s) must be members of AIAA in order to enter the competition.
• Student author(s) must be full-time students in good academic standing at their university/institution at the time of submission.
• Manuscript content represents the work of the author.
• Student(s) must be the primary author(s) of the paper and the work must have been performed while the author(s) was a student.
• Student author(s) must be able to attend the Forum to present their work should it be selected for presentation.

Student Submission Requirements:

• Student Paper Competition submissions must adhere to the overall Forum Abstract Submission Requirements.
• Students must select the “Student Paper Competition” presentation type during the electronic submission process. Do not submit the abstract more than once. Only submissions with Student Paper Competition” presentation type indicated will be eligible for the competition.
• All submissions must be made by the Forum abstract submission deadline of 23 May, 8:00 p.m. ET.
• For further requirements and instructions, please refer to the detailed descriptions of each Student Paper Competition as described in their call below.

Student Paper Competitions in the topics below are being held in conjunction with the Forum:

Please direct questions to: Eric Stewart , NASA Marshall Space Flight Center

To be considered for one of the student paper awards within the Aerospace Design and Structures Group, students must submit their abstract to one of the following areas:

• Adaptive Structures
• Complexity in Aerospace (CASE)
• Design Engineering
• Multidisciplinary Design Optimization
• Non-Deterministic Approaches
• Spacecraft Structures
• Structural Dynamics
• Survivability
• Systems Engineering

Authorship:  Student papers should report on work primarily conducted by students in collaboration with their faculty advisors; therefore, all primary/presenting authors of papers submitted for consideration in the Student Paper Competition must be students at the time of abstract submission. The first author of the paper must remain the same between the abstract, final paper, and presentation. Up to two non-student co-authors are allowed.

Presentation:  At conference, the presentation must be given by the primary author of the paper.

Extended Abstract:  Student abstracts must be extended abstracts that follow the rules outlined in this Call for Papers. When submitting to the abstract submission website, select “Student Paper Competition” as the paper type.  Semi-finalists will be chosen based on an evaluation of the extended abstracts.  The results of the semi-final round will not be made public.

Deadline:  Student manuscripts must be uploaded to the manuscript submission website by  the published regular conference paper deadline for the AIAA SciTech Forum .  Students should note that the latest version of their paper submitted prior to the deadline will be the version used for judging.

If for any of these reasons a paper is removed from student paper competition, authors still have the opportunity to submit their paper by the published regular conference paper deadline for the full AIAA SciTech Forum deadline as a regular conference paper.

The following awards will be presented to the winners where a single paper can only win one award:

Jefferson Goblet Student Paper Award:  The highest ranked Aerospace Design and Structures paper based on manuscript and presentation quality is recognized with the Jefferson Goblet Student Paper Award, which was established over twenty years ago and named to honor Thomas Jefferson. The recipient receives a monetary award ($500), a certificate, and a goblet modeled after a 1788 design by Thomas Jefferson.

American Society for Composites Student Paper Award:  The highest ranked composites-related paper based on manuscript and presentation quality is recognized with the American Society for Composites Student Paper Award. The recipient receives a monetary award ($500) and a certificate.

Lockheed Martin Student Paper Award in Structures:  The Lockheed Martin Student Paper Award in Structures recognizes an outstanding structures-related paper, based on manuscript and presentation quality. The recipient receives a monetary award ($500) and a certificate.  

Harry H. and Lois G. Hilton Student Paper Award in Structures:  The Harry H. and Lois G. Hilton Student Paper Award in Structures recognizes an outstanding graduate-level, structures related paper, based on manuscript and presentation quality. The recipient receives a monetary award ($500) and a certificate. 

SwRI Student Paper Award in Non-Deterministic Approaches:  The Southwest Research Institute Student Paper Award in Non-Deterministic Approaches recognizes an outstanding NDA-related paper, based on manuscript and presentation quality. The recipient receives a monetary award ($500) and a certificate.

The Aerospace Design and Structures Group Student Paper Competitions include submissions to the following topics:

Please direct questions to:  James Creel , Texas A&M University

The Walter R. Lempert Student Paper Award in Diagnostics for Fluid Mechanics, Plasma Physics, and Energy Transfer is sponsored by the Aerodynamic Measurement Technology (AMT), Plasmadynamics and Lasers (PDL), and Propellants and Combustion (PC) Technical Committees (TC).

The award is given on an annual basis in memory of Dr. Walter R. Lempert. Walter Lempert was an outstanding scientist and engineer who had a profound impact on AIAA and in particular these three TCs. The Walter R. Lempert Student Paper Award is given to the most outstanding student paper submitted to sessions organized by these TCs at the annual AIAA SciTech Forum.

The Award shall consist of $500 cash and a Certificate of Merit identifying the name of the Award, the Award winner, the title of the paper for which they won the award, and the date of the award. If required by the IRS, the winning student shall submit a W-9/W-8 to AIAA. The Award winner will be recognized during the AIAA Aviation and Aeronautics Forum and Exposition (AIAA AVIATION). The Walter Lempert Subcommittee Chair shall provide winner information to AIAA no later than 60 days prior to the Forum.

Any additional funds available through the endowment may be used to support the travel costs for the award winner to attend the conference to receive the award in person. Additional funds may also be used to facilitate honorable mention awards for other outstanding student papers eligible for The Walter R. Lempert Student Paper Award in Diagnostics for Fluid Mechanics, Plasma Physics, and Energy Transfer. Disbursements of funds is based upon the formal AIAA Foundation agreement.

Additional Technical Discipline Eligibility Requirements & Other Rules

Any graduate student in an engineering or related program that is the first author and presenter of a technical paper at an AMT, PDL or PC affiliated session at the AIAA SciTech. The winning students may one receive this award once.

Technical Discipline Selection Criteria:

• The paper must be in the area of measurement techniques and related to the technical disciplines covered by the AMT, PDL and PC technical committees.
• The paper should be evaluated on the innovative nature of the diagnostic or its use. Applications of mature diagnostics are not eligible for this award.
• The papers will be scored according to the following formula:
• Technical Quality/Completeness (50 pts) - Some of the considerations which you may wish to apply here are: clearly stated purpose, a well-developed introduction, methods used, the inclusion of an uncertainty analysis if applicable, well supported conclusions, breadth of references, or other technically applicable criteria.
• Technical Relevance (25 pts) - Considerations here should be contribution to the state-of-the-art or knowledge, timeliness, innovation, etc. in diagnostics for fluid mechanics, plasma physics, and energy transfer
• Readability (25 pts) – Text, grammar, figures, tables, etc.

Please direct questions to:  Andrea Da Ronch , University of Southampton Yunjun Xu , University of Central Florida

The AFM Technical Committee, with the support of Calspan Corporation , is sponsoring the AFM Student Paper Competition. Eligible written papers and oral presentations will be judged by members of the AFM Technical Committee.The competition is within the AFM conference and not part of the larger SciTech Forum and Exhibition. The winner of the competition will be notified after the conference and receive both a certificate and a $500 award.

To be eligible for the competition, the entrant must be the primary author of the submitted paper and the work must have been performed while the author was a student. As such, recent graduates may still be eligible. Entrants will present their papers in the AFM technical sessions, where judges will also be in attendance. To enter the competition, the “Student Paper Competition” option must be selected instead of “Technical Manuscript” when submitting a manuscript via the conference website. Note that when entering the Student Paper Competition, the paper is still published and scheduled within the technical sessions, as normal. Papers are due by the regular final manuscript deadline. All papers with a student as primary author are encouraged to participate in the competition.

The scoring for the award will be equally based on the written paper and oral presentation. Judging of the written paper is based on the criteria:

• Relevance of the topic to atmospheric flight mechanics
• Organization and clarity
• Appreciation of relevant technical issues and sources of error
• Meaningful conclusions of the research.

Judging of the oral presentation is based on the criteria:

• Background and problem definition statement
• Explanation of technical approach
• Explanation of research results

Please direct questions to:  Charles E. Tinney ,  The University of Texas at Austin The Prof. Kirti "Karman" Ghia Memorial Award is presented by the AIAA FDTC to an international graduate student studying in the USA, for an innovative approach to computational fluid dynamics that leads to a greater understanding of the flow physics for a problem related to aeronautics or astronautics.  The winner must present at a paper at SciTech.

Instructions : Graduate student authors may self-nominate for the Professor Kirti "Karman" Ghia Memorial Award by selecting the “Student Paper Competition” option instead of “Technical Manuscript” during submission. Note that when entering the Student Paper Competition, the paper is still published and scheduled within the technical sessions, as normal.

Eligibility : AIAA membership is strongly encouraged but not required.  Nominees must be international graduate students, meaning they do not have USA citizenship or permanent residency, working toward a graduate degree in the USA and presenting a paper at SciTech.  The winner must show written proof, potentially from their departmental graduate office, of eligibility.  Nominees may only win this award once.  Only nominees who choose a topic area under Fluid Dynamics during abstract submission will be considered for the award, and further only those who have a substantial CFD component as part of their paper.

Cash Prize : $1,500 will be provided for the winner’s conference costs, including airfare, registration, lodging, food, and other transportation, to present a paper at SciTech.  This will be given as a check to the winner before the conference to help them plan and pay for their travel.  The winner is required to make their own travel and conference arrangements.

Selection Process and Timing : The award is judged by the FDTC based on the criteria given below.  The judging has 2 rounds.  First, submitted abstracts will be down-selected to a smaller group, and winners of round 1 will be notified at the time of SciTech abstract acceptance decisions (nominally end of August).  Next, round-1 winners will be asked to submit their full papers early, by Oct. 24, for round-2 judging.  One winner will be chosen around the 3rd week of Nov., to give time for travel planning.

Award Presentation Venue : This award is presented at the same SciTech that the paper is given, and the winner will be invited to the FDTC plenary meeting to be recognized and provided with a certificate.  The award will also be acknowledged at the Student Breakfast.

Technical Discipline Selection Criteria

The award is judged by the FDTC, and the evaluation criteria and weights are: 1) an innovative approach to CFD, e.g., a new methodology, speed increase, higher accuracy, new validation framework, post-processing strategy, etc. (weight: 35%); 2) a greater understanding of the flow physics of a given problem, as a result of the CFD innovation (weight: 35%); 3) clarity and prose (weight: 15%); 4) graphical content (weight: 15%).

Please direct questions to: Keiichi Okai , Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Tarek Abdel-Salam , East Carolina University

Green Engineering Best Student Paper Award

This award will be presented to best student paper submitted under Green Engineering Integration Committee.

Please direct questions to: Raghvendra Cowlagi ,  Worcester Polytechnic Institute Xuerui Wang , Delft University of Technology

AIAA Guidance Navigation and Control Best Graduate Student Paper

The GN&C Technical Committee will host a Graduate Student Paper Competition at the AIAA SciTech Forum. In addition to appropriate recognition, all finalists in the GN&C Graduate Student Paper Competition will receive a monetary award of $500 and complimentary registration. The overall winner will receive an additional $1,000 award.

For this competition, full draft manuscript papers are sought from graduate students on GN&C technical research topics, from which up to six finalists will be selected by a panel of judges for inclusion in a special GN&C Graduate Student Paper Competition session. Author eligibility and manuscript submission requirements are described below.

• A student must be the first or sole author, enrolled at an institution of higher learning.
• Upon selection as a finalist the student must provide to the Competition Chairs a 'Statement of Contributions' that delineates the specific technical contributions of each co-author. Furthermore, the student must assert that they have provided the preponderant share of input to both the technical and written dimensions of the paper, and must also include the signatures of all co-authors.
• The student author must be a member of AIAA to become a finalist in the competition.
• The student author must be a full-time graduate student in good academic standing at his or her university/institution at the time of submission.
• Full draft manuscript not exceeding a total length of 25 pages.
• The student author is not the overall winner of the preceding year’s competition.
• Only one paper submission per primary author.

The finalists for the Graduate Student Paper Competition will be selected on the basis of three reviewer scores, with consideration to technical content (30%), originality (30%), practical application (20%) and style and form (20%). Reviewers will be members of the GNC Technical Committee. Each finalist will present their paper in a special session during the conference. The presentation will be evaluated by a panel of judges. The overall winner of the paper competition will be decided on the basis of scores granted to the paper as well as the presentation.

Please direct questions to: Friedolin T. Strauss , German Aerospace Center (DLR) Suo Yang , University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

High-Speed Air-Breathing Propulsion Student Paper Competition

High-speed air-breathing propulsion technical committee solicits student papers which address the design, analysis, optimization, testing, and evaluation of technologies and systems that enable supersonic and hypersonic air vehicle propulsion. The key technology areas include but are not limited to ramjet, scramjet and combined cycle engines, inlets, isolators, combustion chambers, nozzles and other enabler components, the design methods and optimization, thermodynamic analysis, the measurement techniques and numerical methods facilitating the interpretation of the physics observed within High-Speed propulsion systems as well as materials, structures and manufacturing methods aiming at construction of the engines.

Focus on high-speed flight regime above or equal Mach 5 or topic related to this flight regime. Topic range includes the same topics as in the general HSABP Call for Papers.

Focus on high-speed flight regime above or equal Mach 5, technical excellence, conciseness, technical approach, technical creativity, compliance with AIAA SciTech style guide and AIAA requirements.

Please direct questions to:  B. Danette Allen ,  NASA

Human Machine Teaming Best Student Paper

Papers are sought that address theoretical, analytical, simulated, experimental, or implementation results related to aerospace applications for advances in human machine teaming where the paper can focus on one of three general elements: the human, the machine, and interactions and interdependencies between them. Concepts regarding human physiology, psychology, human factors, cognitive models, and human performance that support aspects of human machine teaming are of interest. Additionally, concepts regarding artificial intelligence, explainable AI (xAI), machine learning, modeling, feature engineering (e.g., biosignal processing), and human-machine interfaces, which support the mapping of the human to the machine, the interaction with the machine, elucidates trust, and other facets of the human machine system are all topic areas of focus.

Technical Discipline Eligibility Requirements & Other Rules

Submissions will be evaluated by a team which is comprised of:

• Members of the conference program committee
• Representatives from the Human Machine Teaming TC
• Participation is limited to current graduate and undergraduate students from any accredited, degree-program educational institution.
• The teams should be composed of at least one AIAA student member and at least one advisor who is an AIAA member.
• Submissions by individuals or teams are acceptable
• Required submission format: PowerPoint charts + short abstract
• Optional submission material: videos, system mock-ups, demonstrations

The criteria for which each idea will be evaluated on:

• Compliance: is the idea submission complete and does it comply with the rules of the challenge?
• Novelty: does the idea describe a novel approach to providing a solution?
• Originality: how original is the proposed technology or use of existing technology?
• Relevance: How well does the idea relate to the topic and provide a solution aligned with the goals of this challenge?
• Feasibility: how likely can the idea be prototyped?
• Value Proposition: if successful, how well does the idea solve a stakeholder’s need and how likely would the solution be transitioned to a stakeholder?

Please direct questions to:  Andrew Lacher , NASA

Intelligent Systems Best Student Paper

Students are invited to submit extended abstracts by the abstract submission deadline in any broad area of Intelligent Systems to the Intelligent Systems Student Paper Competition. Systems of interest include both military and commercial aerospace systems and those ground systems that are part of test, development, or operations of aerospace systems. Technologies that enable autonomy (i.e. safe and reliable operation with minimal or no human intervention) as well as collaborative human-machine teaming in complex aerospace systems/subsystems are of interest. These include but are not limited to: autonomous and expert systems; discrete planning/scheduling algorithms; intelligent data/image processing, learning, and adaptation techniques; data fusion and reasoning; and knowledge engineering. The application of such technologies to problems that highlight advanced air mobility, certification, carbon emissions/sustainability, space traffic management, and cislunar operations are of particular interest.

• A student paper competition session will be held on Monday evening of January 6th, 2025 at the SciTech Forum; finalists will present during this session.
• Papers will also be included in the conference proceedings, and you will also be required to present as a regular paper in the AIAA SciTech (Two presentations will occur, one on Monday and one in the regular conference schedule).
• Please follow the abstract submission requirements in the Intelligent Systems Technical Discipline Call for Papers.

Technical Discipline Selection Criteria A student competition paper subcommittee and the chair will review the full draft manuscripts submitted as IS student paper competition papers based upon:

• Originality
• Practical Applications or Theoretical Foundations
• Long-Term relevance to IS Technologies
• Technically New, Innovative, or Constructive Review
• Professional Integrity (Credits prior work, claims are supported by results, is objective)
• Clear Presentation (writing, organizing, and graphics)

All papers that are not selected will be forwarded to the area chairs for possible inclusion as regular conference papers. Directly after this session, the subcommittee will decide the winner based on both the paper and the presentation, and the student will be notified by email. The winner will be presented with an award, “Best Student Paper.”

Please direct questions to:  Prof. Carl Ollivier-Gooch , University of British Columbia

MVCE Best Student Paper

The Meshing, Visualization, and Computational Environments (MVCE) Technical Committee is holding a student paper competition for the AIAA SciTech Forum . The student who writes the best extended abstract will receive a $500 award, which will be paid in advance of the conference, to defray the cost of attending the AIAA SciTech Forum .

The extended abstracts will be judged by a subcommittee of the MVCE based upon the importance of the work, originality, quality, and completeness. To be eligible, the student needs to be full-time at either the graduate or undergraduate level. Students are encouraged to submit extended abstracts that are as close as possible to the anticipated final paper.

Please direct questions to: Andrew Dahir , MIT Lincoln Lab Scott Palo , University of Colorado Boulder

Small Satellite Best Student Paper Award

The AIAA Small Satellite Technical Committee is proud to announce the Best Student Paper Competition at the AIAA SciTech Forum. Entrants will be judged by technical committee members and the judging will include both the written manuscript and the oral presentation.  Full-time students at any academic level are encouraged to participate and eligibility requirements are defined by the AIAA and outlined at the top of this page.  More details about the evaluation process can be obtained by contacting [email protected] .

Abstract: Students are encouraged to submit extended abstracts (70% complete papers) which demonstrate the maturity of the work. When submitting to the abstract submission website, select “Student Paper Competition” as the presentation type. Semi-finalists will be chosen based on an evaluation of the extended abstracts. The results of the semi-final round will not be made public.  Deadline: Final student manuscripts must be uploaded to the conference manuscript submission website by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time USA on 11 November 2024 (this is earlier than the deadline for regular technical papers). Students who miss this November deadline will be removed from the student paper competition but may still be allowed to present in the oral session.

The award evaluation will be based on both the written manuscript (75%) and oral presentation (25%).

Please direct questions to: Lulin Jiang , Baylor University Tarek Abdel-Salam , East Carolina University

Terrestrial Energy Systems Best Student Paper Award

This award will be presented to best student paper submitted under Terrestrial Energy Systems Technical Committee.

Please direct questions to: Andrew Lacher , NASA Langley Keith Hoffler , Adaptive Aerospace

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Single paper awarded based on technical discipline selection criteria below.

Must be submitted/presented under any of the Unmanned Systems topics.

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Data Communication Scholarship at ICPSR

We are now accepting applications for two 2022 competitions (ICPSR Undergraduate and ICPSR Master's), which are listed below.

2024 ICPSR Data Communication Scholarship

Times are changing, and so is the ICPSR Research Paper Competition. Since 2007, the annual competition has showcased undergraduate and graduate students’ research papers that have used data archived at ICPSR.

Winners from ICPSR’s member institutions have covered topics from “ Testing the Theory of Rational Crime with United States Data, 1994-2002 ” in 2007 to “ Does (Trans)Gender Identity Complicate the Relationship between Education and Self-Rated Health? ” in 2022. 

Now, we’re excited to announce that the ICPSR Research Paper Competition is transitioning to the ICPSR Data Communication Scholarship. Starting in November 2023, students from ICPSR member institutions can apply for the scholarship. Instead of the traditional research paper format, ICPSR is recognizing students for creating videos about ICPSR data! "We not only want students using our data, but we want to empower the next generation of data advocates," said Linda Detterman, ICPSR's Membership and Communications Director.

Learning Objectives

After completing this project, students should be able to:

• Use the ICPSR search tools to find data on a topic of interest to them.
• Drill down into the information about a study to determine: 
• The basics: What was the study about? Why was the research conducted, and what topics were covered?
• Methodological concepts: Who was in the sample and how were they selected to participate? When and how were the data collected, and was the study part of a larger data collection effort (e.g., longitudinal, repeated cross-section, data collected from more than one ‘source’ [e.g., school, teachers, parents, and kids])?
• Other details: Who were the investigators? Was the research funded and by whom? Are the data members-only or available to all, what is the data citation
• Examine related publications to see what has been done with the data
• Synthesize the information to identify research topics for which the data are well suited
• Create an “advertisement” about the data, highlighting the key features of the study

Feb. 23, 2024, at Midnight, ET

Submissions

What to Submit: 

• An entry form that includes information about the submitter(s) and the data.
• The link to a video, no longer than 2 minutes in length, that describes an ICPSR study that gives the viewer a “run down” of the important points and a glimpse at potential uses. Details about what to include can be found in the “Preparing Your Entry” section.

About the Scholarship

Students from ICPSR member institutions are eligible to win scholarships of $1,000 (first place) or $750 (second place) for creating a short video to promote a study in the ICPSR catalog. Realizing that coursework requirements and assignments have changed since the ICPSR Paper Competition was launched in 2007, we are giving the competition a major facelift to better match what students are being asked to do in an era of more creative, less traditional assignments. Upon completing the video, students should have gained experience navigating and searching ICPSR , identifying data of interest, and using the information provided for each study to determine potential uses of the data.

Preparing Your Entry

The Fine Print

• To be eligible, students must attend a school that is a member of ICPSR. If you are unsure whether your school is a member, please check the member list .
• Students entering the competition must graduate or have graduated no earlier than April 1 of the year prior to submission. For example, students entering in 2024 have to graduate April 1, 2023, or later.
• Studies chosen for the videos must be part of ICPSR's curated collection. Specifically, studies found in OpenICPSR and studies with a description that contains a link to another site from which to get the data are not eligible. Note: some study description pages point to the project’s website for further description – that’s okay, as long as you can download the data from the ICPSR page (clicking on download lists files in formats such as SPSS, Stata, SAS, R, and ASCII or CSV as well as documentation files).

• We encourage you to search all of the collection, but you can also start your search with only the eligible studies .
• Think about a topic you are interested in and might like to conduct research on.
• Use the search tools on icpsr.umich.edu to see what ICPSR has related to that topic. You can start by looking for studies about your topic, studies that contain questions (variables) related to that topic, or research that has been published about your topic. Results for all three types of searches appear on the Search Results page so you don’t need to redo your search to switch from one to the other. You may need to expand or narrow your search based on the results. 
• Find a few studies that look interesting to you. Click on the title to get to the “study homepage” where you will find additional information about the data. Once you find one that you think you want to use for your video, try to answer the questions below based on the information on the study homepage and in the codebook, and any other documentation provided.
• Create a video of no more than 2 minutes that captures the important points about the study you chose. You might frame the video by thinking about it as a “commercial” for the data – highlighting any special features – or what you would tell a researcher interested in learning more about the data. Be creative, but keep in mind what you know about social research. 
• Fill out the entry form and include the link to your video!

How to Approach the Data

Your task for this scholarship opportunity is not to analyze the data, but to learn as much about it as you possibly can and to share that information with other social scientists in an engaging way. No problem, right?!?

Make sure you learn and assess:

• What is the purpose of the study – why were the data originally collected?
• Who carried out the study and did they appear to have funding to do so? If yes, from whom? 
• What topic areas are covered in the data?
• Who is in the sample and how were they selected?
• When and how were the data collected?
• Was this a one-time data collection or was it part of a larger project with ongoing data collection? 
• What was the source of the data (e.g., individual adults, an adult representing a household, records from an employer, newspaper stories)?
• Are the data restricted (do you have to apply for access)?
• What has been done with the data already?
• What are the strengths of these data that might set them apart from other studies? Are there any limitations?

Entry Forms

Papers must be submitted electronically via the ICPSR Research Paper Competition Entry and Publication Release Form

• Awards will be announced in April 2024.
• Cash prizes will be awarded in each competition.
• Each winner will receive a certificate in recognition of the award.
• Letters of achievement will be written to the student, and to the faculty, departments, and deans at the student's institution, upon request.

Promoting the ICPSR Data Communication Scholarship

ICPSR encourages the early promotion of the ICPSR Data Communication Scholarship in your campus community. Please share and/or post these images to help student authors be made aware of it.

For more information, please email the ICPSR Data Communication Scholarship team at [email protected] .

First Place - ICPSR Undergraduate - Simran Sethi Khanna, Princeton University

First Place - ICPSR Master's - Madeline Smith-Johnson, Rice University

First Place - ICPSR Undergraduate - H. S. Matthew Ng, Verity Y. Q. Lua, and Nadyanna M. Majeed, Singapore Management University

Second Place - ICPSR Undergraduate - Taran Samarth, Pennsylvania State University

First Place - ICPSR Master's - In Jeong Hwang, Harvard University

Second Place - ICPSR Master's - Beverly J. Pettrey, Cleveland State University

First Place - ICPSR Undergraduate - Jessica J Cox, Elizabethtown College

Second Place - ICPSR Undergraduate - Rachel Bickelman, Elizabethtown College

First Place - ICPSR Master's - Ruiqian Li, Baylor University

First Place - ICPSR Undergraduate - Arnold Johnsen, Northwestern University

Second Place - ICPSR Undergraduate - Emalie Rell, Elizabethtown College

First Place - ICPSR Master's - Angela Lee, Harvard University

ICPSR Master's First Place Winner - Paul Hemez, Bowling Green State University

ICPSR Master's Second Place Winner - Matthew Utterback, Cornell University

ICPSR Undergraduate Winner - Candace M. Evans, McMurry University (Texas)

ICPSR Master's Winner - Brielle Bryan, Harvard University

ICPSR Undergraduate Winner - Tiffany Foster, Hiram College (OH)

ICPSR Undergraduate Winner - Lorraine Blatt, Grinnell College (IA)

ICPSR Master's Winner - Peter Lista, Indiana University-Bloomington

RCMD Competition Winner - Jian Li, Central University of Finance and Economics (Beijing)

Data Curation Competition Winner - Tiffany Chao, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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The International Research Competition (IRC) is an epitome of the organization’s commitment to knowledge and research. True to its mission, IIARI upholds the value of research and education for intellectual growth and development. IRC aims to nurture research culture among the students in various education levels.

IRC is an international competition open to all student-researchers across the globe. It brings forth a venue for the high school, undergraduate and graduate students to display their research writing prowess.

1. Objectives

The competition aims to:

• continuously develop strong research culture among students;
• provide platform for the dissemination and publication of student research outputs;
• foster collaboration among student-researchers around the globe; and
• develop camaraderie among fellows in the industry and academic community.

2. Categories

There are three categories of the competition:

Category 1 . High School Students. This competition is open to senior high school students.

Category 2 . Undergraduate Students. This competition is open to undergraduate students in any specializations.

Category 3 . Graduate Students. This competition is open to graduate students both in Masters and Doctorate levels in any specializations.

IRC has three levels namely: first, second and final round.

First round . The competitors submit the extended abstract ( download the format ) of their paper during the first round of the competition. All submissions are through the online submission form. The panel of evaluators choose the papers to continue to the second round of the competition.

Second round . The competitors submit the full manuscript of their paper ( download title page  and  download anonymous file ), supporting evidence (student identification, proof of enrollment or certificate of graduation) and registration fee of $40 (P2,000 for Philippine competitors). The panel of evaluators choose maximum ten (10) papers from each category to advance to the final round of the competition. All accepted papers will be published in the proceedings journal. 

Final round . The top papers are called for an online panel interview. There will be one winner per category.

HOW WINNER IS DETERMINED?

First round.

The chair and co-chair vote to "ACCEPT" or "REJECT" each submission in the three categories. After the votes are casted, they will be tallied to determine any split decision. A third evaluator will be called to make the final decision on the split decision. The final number of second round qualifiers will be announced. Only the qualifiers will be sent notice of acceptance via email.

SECOND ROUND

The qualifiers will be given sufficient time to complete their paper and submit the full paper in proper format in order to register for the competition. Any qualifier who complied with all the requirements (full paper, proof of enrolment/graduation, registration fee, complete registration form) will be the second round finalists. The anonymous full papers will be evaluated by a separate panel comprising 60% of the total scores. Each category has different set of two evaluators. At the end of round two, maximum ten papers enter the final round.

FINAL ROUND

Important due dates, 1. scope of research.

There are four key areas: (1) education; (2) business and finance; (3) social sciences and (4) information technology. The competition accepts any topic within its scope and coverage. The submitted article needs to have strong empirical evidence and make significant contribution to the field. It should have strong theoretical and/or methodological literature. The submission is an original article, not have been nor considered for publishing elsewhere. The author must obtain permission for any used copyrighted materials within the article. The competition only accepts articles in English.

The total word count including references for Category 1 must be 3,000 to 5,000. Meanwhile, the Category 2 and 3 requires 6,000 to 8,000 words including references. There is maximum of 5 authors in one article.

2. Eligibility

The competition is open to currently enrolled students. Authors need to provide valid identification or proof of their enrollment. In case of a team, all the authors must be currently enrolled during the academic year at the time of the competition.

Competitors can use a previously written thesis or dissertation as part of their academic requirement by providing a written certification from the school allowing its use. The paper should have not been published nor considered for publication. Students can use academic papers written from 2021 to 2023. If in case the author had graduated, certificate of graduation should be provided.

The authors are allowed to have mentors or advisors as co-authors. Clearly specify in the manuscript if advisor.

3. Accepted papers

All papers will be published in  The Research Probe , the proceedings journal. In addition, some papers can be invited to be published for free in the relevant IIARI journals. Should the author withdraw from the competition after acceptance, a written notice should be sent to the committee at least 7 days before the scheduled final round of the competition.  

4. Selection criteria

The finalist in the first and second rounds of the competitions will be chosen through the following criteria:

• Strong empirical evidence - 10%
• Strong contribution to the field - 30%
• Background and related work (15)
• Methodology (20)
• Results and Discussion (20)
• Conclusion (5)

During the final round of the competition, the criteria for the selection include:

• Manuscript Evaluation - 60%
• Panel Interview - 40%

Prizes and awards

One winner will be announced per category who will receive the following prizes:

Category 1. USD100 (P5000), Certificate and Plaque

Category 2. USD150 (P7500), Certificate and Plaque

Category 3. USD200 (P10000), Certificate and Plaque

The second and third placers in each category receive certificate and medal. The winning advisor/mentor also receives certificate. The non-winners receive e-certificate of recognition.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is there any registration fee.

A: The registration fee is $40 (P2,000) for papers accepted in the second round. There is no payment for the paper submission in the first round of the competition.

What certificates I will receive?

If you register to the competition, you will automatically receive certificate of recognition (as finalist), certificate of publication (proceedings journal), certificate of presentation (conference) and certificate of training (conference).

Can I withdraw my paper from the competition?

A: Yes. You may withdraw your paper after acceptance after a written notice to the competition committee at least seven (7) days before the scheduled evaluation.

Can I submit an on-going study?

Yes. You may submit for the Round 1 of the competition. If chosen as finalist, you need to submit the full manuscript.

Can I submit a research article not within my specialization?

Yes. All papers within the competition scope and coverage can be submitted.

Can I submit a study previously conducted?

Yes. You may submit studies conducted from 2022 to 2023.

In case of a team, should all members appear in the panel interview?

All authors should appear in the panel interview except for the advisor or mentor when included as co-author.

If we have further questions and clarifications, how we can communicate with the committee?

For further queries, you can send email to [email protected] or send WhatsApp message to (+63) 916 387 3537.

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Dr. Helmer B. Montejo

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The ACM Student Research Competition (SRC) offers a unique opportunity for undergraduate and graduate students to present their research to a panel of judges and conference attendees at SPLASH. The SRC provides visibility and exposes up-and-coming researchers to computer science research and the research community. This competition also gives students an opportunity to discuss their research with experts in their field, get feedback, and sharpen their communication and networking skills.

To participate in the competition, a student must submit a 2-page description of their original research project. The submitted project descriptions are peer-reviewed. Each student whose description is selected by a panel of reviewers is invited to attend the SRC competition at SPLASH and present their work.

Winners of the SPLASH competition are invited to participate in the ACM Student Research Competition Grand Finals. Submit your work and take part in the ACM Student Research Competition at SPLASH 2023!

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• Have graduate or undergraduate student status (i.e., be enrolled in a university or college) at the time of submission.
• Be a current ACM student member.
• If selected, register for the conference and attend.

Submission Guidelines

A submitted research abstract must not exceed 2 pages, including all text, appendices, and figures. Additional pages are permitted only for references (and no other text). The submission must be written in English and must be submitted as a PDF file that follows the ACM SIGPLAN acmart style. See http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author/ . Please use the provided double-column LaTeX or Word templates.

You must submit your SRC research abstract electronically via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=splash2023src by July 14th 2023, 23:59pm July 21st, 2023 23:59pm AoE .

Please contact the SPLASH 2023 SRC co-chairs if you need more information.

Competition

If your abstract is accepted, there are two additional rounds of SRC competition that are held during the SPLASH conference.

First Round: Poster Session

The first round is the Poster Session. If you are selected to participate in the competition, you will be invited to present a poster that will be used as a visual helping you to explain your work. This is your opportunity to present your research to conference attendees and SRC judges.

The judges will review the posters and speak to participants about their research. The judges will evaluate the posters based on the quality of the oral and visual presentation, significance of the contribution, research methods, and your broader knowledge of your research area. Following that evaluation, the judges will select students to advance to the second round of the competition.

Second Round: Research Talk

If you are selected for this stage, you will give a 10-minute talk about your research before a panel of judges in a special session at the SPLASH 2023 conference.

You should prepare in advance a presentation and a talk describing your work. The talks will be evaluated by a panel of judges according to the same criteria as posters: the quality of the oral and visual presentation, significance of the contribution, research methods, and your broader knowledge of your research area.

More information about the competition and selection criteria can be found here: https://src.acm.org/about .

Prizes and SRC Grand Finals

The top three winners in each category – undergraduate and graduate – will be recognized during the conference. First-place undergraduate and graduate student winners from all SRCs held during the year (including SPLASH) advance to the SRC Grand Finals.

A separate panel of judges will evaluate all SRC Grand Final participants via the Web. Three undergraduate and three graduate students will be chosen as the SRC Grand Finals winners.

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Student Research Competition ESEC/FSE 2023

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ESEC/FSE 2023 will host an ACM Student Research Competition (SRC). The SRC is a unique forum reserved for undergraduate and graduate students who want to experience the world of software engineering research, present their results to the community.

The ACM Student Research Competition at ESEC/FSE 2023 consists of three parts:

• Research Abstract Submission
• Poster Presentation during the conference
• Research Talk during the conference

The first-place winners are invited to participate in the ACM Student Research Competition Grand Finals (that includes all fields of computer science). Here is how you can participate.

Submit a Research Abstract

To participate, submit an extended research abstract of no more than 800 words (within a 2-page limit) related to the main themes of ESEC/FSE 2023 (see the Research Track for a list of conference topics). The submission should include the following elements: the research problem and motivation, background and related work, approach and novelty, results, and contributions. Your submission must present original research contributions that have not been published elsewhere. Papers will be judged based on how well they cover the above aspects of the work.

All research abstracts must conform to the ESEC/FSE 2023 Format and Submission Guidelines , and must not exceed 800 words (within 2 pages), including all text, appendices, and figures. However, please note that references do not count against the word and page limit: the list of references may expand into a third page but no content (text, figures) is allowed on the third page (i.e., the third page, if any, should contain nothing else except all or part of your references). All submissions must be in English. Submissions must be in PDF format. Papers must be submitted electronically through the ESEC/FSE SRC HotCRP submission site ( http://esecfse2023-src.hotcrp.com ) by 15th June 2023. A panel of experts will review the submissions and select the students to participate in the Student Research Competition, which will be held during ESEC/FSE 2023. Accepted submissions will be published in the conference electronic proceedings and made available in the ACM Digital Library.

The review process is single-blind. There is no need to anonymize the submission. The submission will be handled using HotCRP.

First Round: Poster Presentation

The first round of the competition will take place during the ESEC/FSE 2023 conference and will be a poster session. You will get to present your research to the conference attendees and leading experts in software engineering research, including the SRC committee.

The committee members will review the posters and talk to participants about their research. Subsequently, they will evaluate the research (in terms of quality, novelty, and significance) as well as the presentation of the research (poster and discussion), and choose the participants to advance to the second round of the competition.

Second Round: Give a Presentation

Selected participants will be invited to give a short presentation of their research before the SRC committee members in a special session during the ESEC/FSE 2023. Each presentation will be followed by a short Q&A session. Evaluations of presentations will be based on the presenter’s knowledge of their research area, contribution of the research, and the quality of the oral and visual presentation. At most three winners will be chosen in undergraduate and graduate category, and receive prizes.

The SRC Grand Finals

The first-place winner in each category (undergraduate and graduate) from the SRC held at ESEC/FSE 2023 will advance to the ACM SRC Grand Finals. A different panel of judges evaluates the winners of all SRCs held during the calendar year against each other via the web. Three undergraduates and three graduates will be chosen as the SRC Grand Finals winners.

The top three winners in each category (undergraduate and graduate) will be recognized during the conference and will receive prizes. The first-place winners of the ESEC/FSE SRC are also invited to compete with winners from other conferences in the ACM Student Research Competition Grand Finals.

Requirements

Participants must be undergraduate or graduate students pursuing an academic degree at the time of initial submission. Participants must be current student members of the ACM, and must provide their ACM member number. Supervisors of the work may not be listed as co-authors; you must submit a single-authored version of your work for the competition.

Important Dates

All dates are 23:59:59 AoE (UTC-12h).

• Paper Submission: Fri, 30 June 2023
• Notification: Fri, 11 August 2023
• Camera-ready Version: Thu, 24 August, 2023

NOTE: The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of the conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work.

For additional information, visit the official ACM Student Research Competition website. For questions, please contact the SRC chairs, Caroline Lemieux and Chakkrit (Kla) Tantithamthavorn .

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Do I need to travel to San Francisco if my abstract gets accepted?

Yes, you will need to travel to ESEC/FSE 2023 to participate in the SRC. We will not offer a virtual/hybrid option for the Poster and Presentation rounds of the competition. Should exceptional circumstances (e.g., visa issues) prevent you from travelling to San Francisco in time, contact the SRC chairs.

Q: Does the SRC offer a travel stipend?

Unfortunately the ESEC/FSE 2023 SRC is unable to provide a travel stipend to participants. Should your advisor or institution be unable to cover the travel cost, we encourage you to apply SIGSOFT CAPS .

Q: I am a PhD student. Am I eligible to participate in the SRC?

Yes. As a PhD student, you will compete in the Graduate category of the competition.

Q: What should I write in my research abstract?

A submission to the competition should describe recently completed or ongoing student research related to the topics covered by ESEC/FSE. It is important that your research abstract discusses (1) research problem and motivation, (2) background and related work, (3) approach and uniqueness, and (4) results and contributions. The committee will assess your research abstract along these dimensions.

Q: What criteria will be used to evaluate the poster and conference presentations?

The judges will assess the poster presentations using the following criteria: Oral presentation, Visual presentation, Research methods, and Significance of contribution. For the conference presentation, the evaluation criteria are Knowledge of research area, Contribution of the research, and Presentation.

Q: My research is not related to software engineering or any of the main themes of the ESEC/FSE conference. Can I still participate in the Student Research Competition?

Yes, but not at ESEC/FSE. To participate in the competition at ESEC/FSE, your research needs to be related to the main themes of the ESEC/FSE conference (see the topics for the main conference track). If your research is not among the topics relevant for ESEC/FSE, please check the list of current SRC calls to find a conference that is better related. If you don’t find a conference that covers your research, you can participate in the SRC at the SIGCSE conference.

Q: Can I submit research that is already published elsewhere?

No, the submission needs to be original. In particular, you cannot participate with a short version of a paper that is accepted in the main track. We will ask you to retract work that has already been published elsewhere.

Q: Can I get my paper published if I cannot attend?

No, the student will need to attend/present their poster or your paper will not be published.

Q: Can I participate without an ACM student membership?

No, you need to have an ACM student membership to participate.

Q: Do figures count towards the word limit?

No, they do not.

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University of british columbia.

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Monash university.

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University of otago, new zealand.

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Jetbrains research.

Jieshan Chen

Csiro's data61.

Diego Costa

Concordia university, canada.

Zhipeng Gao

Shanghai institute for advanced study of zhejiang university.

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Chalmers | university of gothenburg.

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Carnegie mellon university, united states.

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Singapore management university, singapore.

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New jersey institute of technology.

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Cornell university.

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Dalhousie university.

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Concordia university; meta.

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University of nebraska-lincoln, usa.

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Concordia university.

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The univeristy of melbourne.

ACM SIGMETRICS 2023

Orlando, Florida, USA June 19-22, 2023

ACM SIGMETRICS Student Research Competition (SRC)

The ACM Student Research Competition (SRC) offers a unique forum for undergraduate and graduate students to present their original research at well-known ACM sponsored and co-sponsored conferences before a panel of judges and attendees. The SRC consists of two rounds of competition, held at conferences, and a grand finals competition.

To participate in the competition, a student must submit an 800-word abstract of their original research project. Each submitted abstract will be evaluated by a minimum of three faculty members, none of whom are affiliated with the student's university. Each student whose abstract is selected is invited to attend the SRC competition at SIGMETRICS and participate in the SRC poster session. Posters will be evaluated based on the research methods, the significance of contribution and the oral and visual presentation. A group of semi-finalists (top five in each category) will be chosen to give a short presentation in the second round of the competition, on the last day of the conference. Evaluations are based on the presenter’s knowledge of his/her research area, contribution of the research, and the presentation. Three winners will be chosen in each category, undergraduate and graduate (Masters or PhD program), receiving $500, $300, and $200, respectively. First place undergraduate and graduate (Masters or PhD program) student winners can participate in the SRC Grand Finals.

Submit your work and take part of the ACM Student Research Competition at SIGMETRICS 2023!

SRC Winners

Undergraduate category:

• 1st place: Tianhao Huang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) - An End-to-End Benchmarking Tool for Analyzing the Hardware-Software Implications of Multi-modal DNNs
• 2nd place: Xiangan He (Boston College) - Zephyr: An Economically Feasible, Zero-Knowledge Light Client for Enhanced Blockchain
• 3rd place: Nishat Ahmed (The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art) - Best Practices for Exoskeleton Evaluation Using DeepLabCut

Graduate category:

• 1st place: Isaac Grosof (Carnegie Mellon University) - The RESET Technique for Multiserver-Job Analysis
• 2nd place: Yuanyuan Li (Northeastern University) - Distributed Experimental Design Networks
• 3rd place: Zifeng Niu (Imperial College London) - Graph Learning based Performance Analysis for Queueing Networks

Accepted Posters

• Xiangan He (Boston College) - Zephyr: An Economically Feasible, Zero-Knowledge Light Client for Enhanced Blockchain
• Beatriz Souza, Marcio Miranda (advisor), Luiz Maltar (advisor) (Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro) - An Energy-efficient Wireless Sensor Network Applied to Greenhouse Cultivation
• Nishat Ahmed, Amaan Rahman, Lucia Rhode (The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art) - Best Practices for Exoskeleton Evaluation Using DeepLabCut
• Tianhao Huang, Mo Niu, Xiaozhi Zhu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) - An End-to-End Benchmarking Tool for Analyzing the Hardware-Software Implications of Multi-modal DNNs
• Amanda Camacho Novaes de Oliveira (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)) - Learning the Optimal Representation Dimension for Restricted Boltzmann Machines
• Zifeng Niu (Imperial College London) - Graph Learning based Performance Analysis for Queueing Networks
• Isaac Grosof (Carnegie Mellon University) - The RESET Technique for Multiserver-Job Analysis
• Md Rajib Hossen (The University of Texas at Arlington) - PEMA+: A Comprehensive Resource Manager for Microservices
• Yuanyuan Li (Northeastern University) - Distributed Experimental Design Networks

Call for Contributions

How to participate: submit a research abstract.

To enroll in the Student Research Competition (SRC), you must be an undergraduate or graduate student pursuing an academic degree at the time of initial submission. You must submit a research abstract (at most 800 words) related to any of the main SIGMETRICS themes. A submission should describe the motivation of the research, background work, the approach, the actual results and your contribution. Supervisors of the work may not be listed as co-authors (see the Frequently Asked Questions section). As with any publication, the content of the submission must be at least 30% different than any other publication.

The SRC committee members will review the submissions and select students to participate in the competition. Submissions that are accepted to the competition will be published in ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review.

SRC Participation Requirements

Participants must register for SIGMETRICS 2023 as well as be currently enrolled in a university or college and have an active ACM student membership. Qualifying research areas are those covered by the conference; they are specified in the conference’s call for papers. Students may only participate in one SRC per program year (April 1-March 31). Students that have applied to an SRC, but whose research abstract has not been selected, may respond to other SRC calls for contributions during the program year.

Only individual research is accepted from Graduate (Masters or PhD program) students; group research projects will not be considered. If an individual is part of a group research project and wants to participate in an SRC, they can only present their part of the research. Team projects will be accepted from Undergraduate students. One person should be designated by the team to attend the conference and make the oral presentation. Should the designated presenter win first, second or third place in competition only they will receive the medal and monetary award.

Submission Guidelines

A submission to SRC must not exceed 800 words, and not exceed 2 pages including all text, references, appendices, and figures. The submission must be written in English and must be submitted as a PDF file. All submissions must conform to the Alternate ACM SIG Proceedings Paper Formatting Guidelines (LaTEX users must use the class file ). Please note that upon acceptance, authors will be required to complete the ACM rights form, fill in the copyright information in their document, and submit their final version within 48 hours of its being requested.

The SRC research abstract is to be submitted electronically using the HotCRP submission page: https://sigmetrics23src.hotcrp.com/ and the ACM membership number be provided in the submission form.

Important Dates

• SRC Submissions Deadline: March 1st, 2023 at 11:59:59 pm (midnight) ET – Eastern Time
• SRC Acceptance Notification: March 25th, 2023
• SRC Poster Session (First round): June 20, 2023
• SRC Presentation (Second round): June 22, 2023
• SRC Camera Ready: June 30, 2023

Additional Information

• Sara Alouf, Inria, France
• Y.C. Tay, National University of Singapore, Singapore

SRC committee

• Benny Van Houdt, University of Antwerp, Belgium
• Daniel Figueiredo, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• Giulia Fanti, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• Jussara Almeida, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
• Luoyi Fu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
• Martin Arlitt, Micro Focus, Canada
• Matthieu Jonckheere, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina

At the Conference

First round competition: poster presentation on june 20, 2023.

If you are selected to participate in the competition, you will be invited to the first round, which will take place at SIGMETRICS 2023. You will present a poster describing your work to conference attendees and leading experts in the field, including the SRC committee. Judges will review the posters and discuss the research with participants. The scale for evaluating the visual presentation of the research is as follows: (1) oral presentation: 10 points, (2) visual presentation: 10 points, (3) research methods: 15 points, (4) significance of contribution: 10 points. The top five students in each category will advance to the second round of the competition.

Second Round Competition: Research Talk (likely on June 22)

If you are selected for the second round, you will give a short presentation of your research before a panel of a minimum of five judges in a special session at the SIGMETRICS 2023 conference. You should prepare in advance a presentation and a talk describing your work. After each presentation, there will be a brief question-and-answer session. The scale for evaluating the conference presentation of the research is as follows: (1) knowledge of research area: 15 points, (2) contribution of research: 10 points, (3) presentation: 10 points. Based on their scores, the top three undergraduate and three graduate (Masters or PhD program) students will be chosen as winners. They will be recognized during the conference and will receive prizes.

SRC Grand Finals (after the conference)

The first place winners of the SIGMETRICS 2023 SRC will be invited to participate in the ACM SRC Grand Finals, where they will compete with winners from other conferences held during the program year. A different panel of judges evaluates these winners against each other via the web. Three undergraduates and three graduates will be chosen as the SRC Grand Finals winners.

The top three undergraduate and graduate winners at each SRC receive prizes of $500, $300, and $200, respectively (USD). All SRC participants receive a certificate of participation. 

The top three undergraduate and graduate winners at each SRC receive an award medal and a one-year complimentary ACM student membership with a subscription to ACM’s Digital Library.

Conference Registration and Expenses Coverage

To be announced.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can i list my advisor as a co-author on my poster/talk/paper.

People who have overseen a project but are too senior to compete in the SRC (e.g., faculty or post-doc advisors for the graduate category, faculty or graduate student advisors for the undergraduate) may be listed as co-authors, but their role should be clearly identified as advisory; it's clearest to list these people in an "acknowledgements" section and not as co-authors if possible. Even if listed as co-authors, such people should have no more than an advisory or editorial role in writing the submission and may not have any role in presenting it.

What should be part of the research abstract?

A submission to the competition should describe recently completed or ongoing student research related to the topics covered by SIGMETRICS. It is important that your research abstract discusses (1) research problem and motivation, (2) background and related work, (3) approach and uniqueness, and (4) results and contributions. The committee will assess your research abstract along these dimensions.

Based on what criteria will judges evaluate the abstract/research?

The judges will assess research abstracts based on four criteria: Problem and motivation, Background and related work, Approach and uniqueness, and Results and contribution. For the poster presentation, the criteria are Oral presentation, Visual presentation, Research methods, and Significance of contribution. For the conference presentation, the criteria are Knowledge of research area, Contribution of research, and Presentation.

My research is not related to any of the main themes of the SIGMETRICS conference. Can I still participate in the Student Research Competition?

Yes, but not at SIGMETRICS. Participate in a SRC at conference that is related to your research. To participate in the competition at SIGMETRICS, your research needs to be related to the main themes of the SIGMETRICS conference (see the topics for the Technical Research Track). If your research is not among the topics relevant for SIGMETRICS, please check http://src.acm.org/ to find a conference that is better related.

I submitted a paper to SIGMETRICS 2023. May I also submit an abstract on the same topic to the Student Research Competition?

No. The purpose of the SRC is to give feedback on ongoing or incomplete research. If the work is complete enough to be submitted as a full paper to SIGMETRICS 2023, then it is not eligible for the SRC. (see below)

Can already published works be submitted to an SRC?

Standard self-plagiarism rules are in effect for the SRC. If the research results have already appeared in a publication, prior to the SRC submission date, then they are not permitted to be submitted to an SRC for consideration. Furthermore, the same work may not be presented at an SRC and in another session in the same conference in the same year.

Student Grant Program

Sigmetrics 2023 is pleased to offer student grants to subsidize travel and registration costs for attending the conference. The number and amount of the awards will depend on the number of applications received and the available funds.

Eligibility

Only students may apply to the Registration Grant Program, where “students” here refers to undergraduate or graduate levels, but not postdocs.

How to apply

All student applicants should fill out the application form here .

These grants are generously sponsored by the National Science Foundation for students at US universities or students who are US citizens, and by our industry sponsors for students who are neither studying in the US nor US citizens.

The deadline for submitting the application form is May 20th . We may extend the deadline depending on the number of applications. We will process applications on a rolling basis, but expect to communicate all decisions to applicants by May 30th .

The instructions for reimbursement will be conveyed to the awardees once selected. Applicants should wait to hear back before registering, as the award will be made in the form of a coupon code. We are not able to reimburse students who register prior to hearing back about the grant results . If you have any questions about the application process, please email the student awards chairs Avhishek Chatterjee and Zhenhua Liu .

Applicants with financial need and those that are presenting at the conference or an associated workshop, especially in-person attendees, will be given preference. We also strongly encourage students from traditionally underrepresented groups and students in India to apply; a subset of the funds is specifically designated to support those students.

ACM Student Research Competition (SRC)

List of accepted papers is available here .

About ACM SRC

In 2023, ISEC will host its 2nd ACM Student Research Competition (SRC). ACM SRC offers a unique platform for undergraduate and graduate (Masters or early PhD) students to present their research work before a panel of judges and attendees, and compete for prizes. The forum provides an excellent opportunity for students to discuss their research with experts in their field, get feedback, and sharpen their research, communication and networking skills.

To participate in the competition, ISEC 2023 invites students to submit a 2-page extended abstract of his or her research work. The submitted work will be peer-reviewed. Each student whose paper is selected by a panel of reviewers will be invited to attend the SRC competition at ISEC 2023 and present his or her work as a poster presentation and a research talk.

Categories and Awards

The SRC contest has two categories, one for undergraduate research and the other for graduate research. Research completed while the student was an undergraduate may be submitted to the undergraduate category even if the student is now a first-year graduate student.

Three winners will be selected in each category. The three winners in each category, undergraduate and graduate will receive certificates and a monetary award of $500, $300, and $200, respectively. The names of the winners will also be posted on ISEC 2023 website.

The first-place winners of the undergraduate and graduate (Masters or early PhD program) from the SRC will be invited to participate in the ACM Student Research Competition Grand Finals.

Submission Guidelines

To participate in the competition at ISEC 2023, your research needs to be related to the main themes of the ISEC 2023 conference (see the topics for the Research Papers Track). If your research is not among the topics relevant for ISEC 2023, please check http://src.acm.org/ to find a conference that is better related to your research work.

Participants must register for the host conference as well as be currently enrolled in a university or college and have an active ACM student membership. All requirements of participation can be found at https://src.acm.org/participate

Extended abstracts written in English must not exceed 2 pages (800 words max), including all text, appendices, and figures. Each submission should include the author(s)' name(s), affiliations, email addresses, research advisors' names, ACM student member number, SRC category (undergraduate or graduate), and an extended abstract of no more than two pages in the conference template available at https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template . Additional pages are permitted only if they contain only references. The extended research abstract must be submitted as a PDF file electronically via Easychair submission site by 31 October 2022.

Selection Process

Following ACM SRC guidelines, the ISEC 2023 SRC consists of three rounds:

Extended Abstracts : All students are encouraged to submit a 2-page extended abstract outlining their research. All submissions will be reviewed by at-least three reviewers and selected papers will be invited to a poster session to be held during ISEC 2023. A submission to the competition should describe recently completed or ongoing student research related to the topics covered by ISEC 2023. It is important that your research abstract discusses.

• Research problem and motivation
• Background and related work
• Approach and uniqueness
• Results and contributions

Poster Session at ISEC 2023 : In the poster session, students will have the opportunity to present their work to the judges, who will select three finalists in each category (graduate/undergraduate) to advance to the next round based on (a) Motivation of the research, (b) Background work, (c) Approach and research methods, (d) Results and significance contributions, and (e) Quality of the oral and visual presentation.

Presentations at ISEC 2023 : The students of the selected papers from poster session will give an oral presentation at ISEC 2023 to compete for the final awards in each category (undergraduate and graduate). The panel of judges will evaluate all presentations and select winners based on the presenter's knowledge of their research area, contribution of the research, and the quality of the oral and visual presentation.

ACM will provide the medal and monetary award to the SRC student winners (top three winners in graduate/undergraduate category)

For additional information, see SRC Frequently asked questions , consult the ACM Student Research Competition website or contact SRC Track chairs Sheikh Umar Farooq and O. P. Vyas .

Important Dates AoE (UTC-12h)

• Paper Submission Deadline: 30 November 2022
• Notification of Acceptance: 10 December 2022
• Camera Ready Copy due: 20 December 2022

Easychair Submission Link

Papers must be submitted electronically through the Easychair submission site

SRC Track Chairs

• Sheikh Umar Farooq , University of Kashmir, India
• O. P. Vyas , IIIT Allahabad, India

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Research Papers Competition

The Sloan Sports Analytics Conference showcases cutting-edge research that is frequently featured in top media outlets throughout the world and has even changed the way sports are analyzed. The Research Papers Competition is an ideal way to build your reputation within the field of sports analytics.

This year’s competition will feature six sports tracks – Basketball, Baseball, Soccer, Football, Business of Sports, and Other Sports.

Abstract Submissions for SSAC24 are now closed

Abstracts are selected based on the novelty, academic rigor, and impact of the research.

All submissions are required to be open-source and a link to the author's GitHub repository or other repository supporting the research will be required.

Please refer to our Research Papers Rules page for full details on the submission and evaluation process. We look forward to reading your contribution!

Competition Format

The competition consists of the following phases:

• Abstract Phase

Authors submit abstracts. Based on the judged merits of their abstract submissions, a select group of authors will be invited to submit full manuscripts.

• Full Manuscript Phase

Invited authors submit full manuscripts. Referees will evaluate every manuscript, and authors of the best submissions will be invited to give a presentation on their findings at the conference. The referees will also select a separate set of authors who will be invited to present their work during a poster session, as well as a final set of three authors to give a deep-dive of their work in an open-source workshop.

• Conference Phase I

     a. Presentations

Invited authors will present their findings during the first day of the conference. Based on the quality of the presentation and manuscript, one paper per sports track (see tracks below) and one wildcard will be selected to present at the conference in front of a panel of industry experts. The judge scores will be tabulated and the winners will be announced following presentations.

     b. Poster Competition

All posters selected for the conference will be entered into a competition for Best Poster, determined by a combination of a fan and judges vote during the weekend of the conference.

Note: this competition is independent of the presentation finals, and none of the posters will advance to the presentation finals.

Timeline (all times Eastern Time)

Abstract submission due – Oct. 01, 2023, 11:59 p.m. EST

Full paper requests sent out – Mid-October 2023

Full paper submission due (if selected) – Dec. 01, 2023, 11:59 p.m. EST

Finalists and posters announced – Mid-January 2024

Submission of poster (if selected) – Early-February 2024

Submission of presentation (if selected) – Mid-February 2024

Conference presentations (if selected) – Conference Day

Open-Source Requirement

For the Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, the Research Papers competition has been a tremendous opportunity for researchers to both share their work with the community and improve the application of analytics across sports. We are excited to continue requiring all papers to be open-source for SSAC 2024 to further the impact of the great work of researchers in the industry.

Open-source research helps advance our mission to democratize analytics in sports by allowing researchers to build on top of the models and methods of their peers, both amplifying the effect of their research and better enabling widespread adoption of their work. We strongly believe that continued research into sports analytics is what makes our games more exciting and participants more effective. 

All papers will be required to submit a link to the team's GitHub repository, or another open-source repository, with the data used to conduct the research. This should include any publicly available data or private data used in the research. For any private / proprietary data, please use your best judgement to anonymize any personal information before sharing publicly. The code running the models is not required to be submitted, but is encouraged, as it contributes to the communal spirit of open-source work by which researchers build off of each other's work to further the application of analytics across sports.

Sports Tracks

Based on abstract content, all submissions will be entered into one of the following Sports Tracks:

• Basketball – All submissions related to the sport of basketball.
• Baseball – All submissions related to the sport of baseball.
• Soccer – All submissions related to the sport of soccer.
• Football – All submissions related to the sport of American football.
• Business of Sports – All submissions related to the business of owning, managing, or marketing a sport, or to new technology or ideas which could change the face of the sport.
• Other Sports – All submissions related to the playing of a sport that is not included in the above Sports Tracks.

Abstract Guidelines

Abstract submissions should be submitted online, and must use the following guidelines:

• Abstracts must contain fewer than 500 words, including title and body.
• Abstracts may include up to two tables or figures combined (e.g.  1 figure and 1 table, or 2 tables).
• Each abstract should contain the following sections:
• Introduction – What question is this research trying to answer? Why is it an important question for the industry?
• Methods – Description of relevant statistical methods used, including data sources or data collection procedures
• Results – Description of actual (not promised) results along with relevant statistics
• Conclusion – The overall takeaway from the study, including how the results will impact the sports industry

Evaluation of Submissions

The conference seeks submissions that report research pertaining to the use of analytics in the sports industry. We are open to contributions ranging from evaluating players and game strategies, to examining the success factors for sports business. In the abstract and full paper submission process, research will be evaluated on, but not necessarily limited to, the following criteria:

• Novelty of research – Does the research provide interesting insight into new models or challenge existing beliefs?
• Academic rigor / validity of model – Are the methodologies of the model and results fundamentally sound and appropriate?
• Reproducibility – Can the model and results be replicated independently?
• Application – What are the applications or potential applications of the insights from the research?

In evaluating presentation finalists at the 2024 SSAC, the above factors will be supplemented by the following criteria, as judged by a panel of academics and industry executives from team management and sports business operations:

• Interest / impact – Is there significant interest in the proposed question in the field of study or the community at large? What are the benefits or impact of the model or application?

The Research Papers team will review all abstracts. The Review Committee will evaluate all manuscript submissions. The Review Committee consists of the Research Papers team, as well as academic professors and experts from top universities in fields including statistics, information sciences, and economics. The industry panel that makes the final winner selection will decide on the basis of the paper and the presentation at the 2024 Sloan Sports Analytics Conference. In these final evaluations, more weight will be given to the final presentation, specifically the highlighted application and impact of the research.

Conflict of Interest Policy

Our objective is to ensure an unbiased evaluation of submissions throughout the process. We are aware that members of the evaluation committee may have had relationships with authors who have submitted papers. When possible, potential conflicts of interest are avoided by minimizing the review of research by the following:

• Authors who have collaborated with the reviewer on previous submissions
• Current or former students who worked with the reviewer
• Colleagues from the same organization
• Any other previous relationships with the author that may prevent an unbiased evaluation of the paper

All potential conflicts of interest will be managed as best as possible while still maintaining the quality of the review process. Final reviews will occur without knowledge of the names of the authors.

Rights and Permissions

All authors retain ownership rights to the research and the right to publish the research after the conference. Upon submission, authors grant access to 42 Analytics to make their research available for public viewing online and in print, for conference use for the Sloan Sports Analytics Conference. Authors are responsible for obtaining permission from third parties to reprint copyrighted information such as data, tables, or figures that may be protected by copyright.

SSAC 2024 Research Papers & Authors Profiles

2024 research paper finalists, approaching in-venue quality tracking from broadcast video using generative ai.

Short Abstract: ‍ Over the last 25 years, soccer tracking data has provided a deeper understanding of the ways that players and teams play the game. Although traditional tracking systems require in-venue installation, there is a current push to track players remotely from broadcast footage. However, tracking data obtained from broadcast footage is inherently incomplete due to players being out of the broadcast camera’s field of vision. We address this issue in this paper, leveraging generative AI to predict highly accurate locations of the players for the large portions of games where they cannot be visually perceived.

Author(s): Harry Hughes

Harry Hughes is a doctoral student focusing on how modern artificial intelligence techniques can be applied to sports data. With an undergraduate degree in Software Engineering at the University of Queensland, he is currently working at Stats Perform developing the company's broadcast tracking system.

Michael Horton

Michael Stokl

Harshala Gammulle

Clinton Fookes

Sridha Sridharan

Sateesh Pedagadi

Patrick Lucey

Estimating NBA Team Shot Selection Efficiency from Aggregations of True, Continuous Shot Charts: A Generalized Additive Model Approach

Short Abstract: We develop a novel type of basketball shot chart, a true shot chart, that uses a generalized additive model (GAM) to estimate total shot proficiency continuously in the half-court as a continuous, 3-D surface ( https://sportdataviz.syr.edu/TrueShotChart/ ). Unlike conventional shot charts, which do not consider free throw scoring pursuant to a shot from a given location, true shot charts incorporate total points, from the field and free throw line, pursuant to each shot in an NBA game (from 2016-2022 in the study) toward improved explanatory power of offensive efficiency variation across NBA team-seasons. Whereas conventional shot charts show a league-wide three-point premium over the period of the data, true shot charts show a deepening dispremium since 2018, as the free throw rate for three-point attempts is substantially less than that for two-point attempts. Lastly, we develop a novel shot chart summary measure, shot selection efficiency, as the Pearson correlation between expected proportional volume and expected true points, from the field and free throw line, across the half court space; polynomial regression and XGBoost modeling suggest shot selection efficiency is not only win productive, but a “Moneyball” or partly supra-payroll source of wins.  

Author(s): Justin Ehrlich

Dr. Justin A. Ehrlich is an associate professor specializing in sport analytics, machine learning, and computer science. His diverse research spans virtual reality, 3D human pose estimation, advanced visualization, ranking and rating in sports, the business of sport, and the analysis of risks associated with developing Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) in football players. As a faculty member in Syracuse University's Big Data Cluster, Dr. Ehrlich continues to contribute significantly to the field, focusing on big data, rating and ranking methodologies, on-field performance analysis, and advanced shot charts and visualizations. His dedication to advancing sport analytics is evident in the breadth and impact of his research contributions, including innovative approaches to understanding and visualizing player performance on the field.

Shane Sanders

Dr. Shane Sanders is a Professor of Sport Analytics at Syracuse University and an author at sportquant.substack.com. During the summer months, Sanders has done extensive consulting on player acquisition in professional basketball and has published leading academic work in sports economics, statistics, and game theory.  In total, he has authored or co-authored 80+ articles in leading journals of these fields, as well as a popular economics book, The Economic Reason. His work has been cited on NPR, in USA Today, in a U.S. Supreme Court sports antitrust case, and other prominent outlets. When not thinking about himself, Sanders–along with his wife, Bhavneet–helps coach his older daughter, Simran, for various middle school spelling, math, and science pursuits. Last year, Simran qualified for and placed well at the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Sanders also helps coach his younger daughter, Nanki, in soccer skills and in her budding academic interests. Hailing from Zionsville, Indiana–”land of Brad Stevens”– Sanders and his brethren have always been disproportionately crazy about basketball. Under the influence of this so-called “hysteria,” his parents, Dennis and Debby, actually bought and maintained an old high school gym for two decades strong.

Feeling the Pressure: A Unified Framework for Automating Pass Rushing Statistics in NFL Games

Short Abstract: In spite of the importance of the pass rush in professional football, pass rushing statistics only include the final outcomes of a play, e.g., sack and pass-made. They do not capture the dynamics of the pass rush or fine-grained insights throughout a play on how much pressure a rusher generates during the rush. In this paper, we propose a unified framework that enables the estimation of defensive pressure scores throughout a play with high accuracy and performance for rusher and blocker identification, rusher-blocker match-up and pressure score estimation and show the real-world applications of our framework including enriched analytics.

Author(s): Sungmin Hong

Sungmin Hong is an Applied Scientist at Amazon Generative AI Innovation Center where he helps expedite the variety of use cases of AWS customers. Before joining Amazon, Sungmin was a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard Medical School. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from New York University. Outside of work, Sungmin enjoys hiking, reading and cooking.

Laura Kulowski

Laura Kulowski is an Applied Scientist at Amazon’s Generative AI Innovation Center, where she works closely with customers to build generative AI solutions. She holds a PhD in Earth and Planetary Sciences from Harvard University. In her free time, Laura enjoys biking and skiing.

Dan Volk is a Data Scientist at the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center, where he leverages generative AI to create novel solutions to complex problems. He has ten years of experience in machine learning, deep learning and time-series analysis and holds a Master’s in Data Science from UC Berkeley. Outside of work, Dan is a backpacker, snowboarder, mountain biker, drummer, and lifelong fan of all Seattle sports. Bring back the Sonics!

Henry Wang is an Applied Scientist at the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center, where he builds innovative GenAI solutions and co-leads Sports vertical with Dan. He holds a Master’s in Computational Science and Engineering from Harvard University. Outside of work, he loves to play golf casually and compete in tennis at amateur level.

Keegan Abdoo  

Keegan Abdoo is a Manager of Research and Analytics in the Next Gen Stats department at the National Football League. He has helped build out the Next Gen Stats platform over the last six seasons and was promoted to his current role in January 2023. Coming from a background of charting football, Keegan has strived to expand the NGS toolbox to classify more schematic data. Outside of work, he enjoys skiing, live music, and exploring all of the great restaurants Los Angeles has to offer.

Conor McQuiston 

Conor McQuiston is a Research Analyst in the Next Gen Stats department at the National Football League. Since joining Next Gen Stats in October 2022, Conor has used his physics background to help the team to develop and communicate new tracking data metrics to NFL media and all 32 clubs. Prior to joining NGS, he interned as an analytics assistant with the Arizona Cardinals and as a football research intern with Pro Football Focus (PFF). Outside of work, he enjoys going to the beach, reading about history, and trying out new recipes.

Kyeong Hoon (Jonathan) Jung

Kyeong Hoon (Jonathan) Jung is a Principal Software Engineer at the National Football League. He has been with the Next Gen Stats team for the last eight years helping to build out the platform from streaming the raw data, building out microservices to process the data, to building API's that exposes the processed data. He has collaborated with the Amazon Machine Learning Solutions Lab in providing clean data for them to work with as well as providing domain knowledge about the data itself. Outside of work, he enjoys cycling in Los Angeles and hiking in the Sierras.

Mike Band is a Senior Manager of Research and Analytics for Next Gen Stats at the National Football League. Since joining the team in 2018, he has been responsible for ideation, development, and communication of key stats and insights derived from player-tracking data for fans, NFL broadcast partners, and the 32 clubs alike. Mike brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the team with a master's degree in analytics from the University of Chicago, a bachelor's degree in sport management from the University of Florida, and experience in both the scouting department of the Minnesota Vikings and the recruiting department of Florida Gator Football.

Diego Socolinsky

Diego Socolinsky is a Senior Applied Science Manager with the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center, where he leads the delivery team for the Eastern US and Latin America regions. He has over twenty years of experience in machine learning and computer vision, and holds a PhD degree in mathematics from The Johns Hopkins University.

Measuring Individual Competitiveness and its Impact on Sporting Success

Short Abstract: Although the sports industry pours millions of dollars into understanding talent, we do not know: how to measure individuals’ attitudes towards competition, when these attitudes are formed, how they vary both within individuals over time and across individuals, and, more fundamentally, how important competitiveness is for sporting success. We measure competitiveness and answer these questions by leveraging a rich, dynamic panel dataset on hundreds of top young prospects from a renowned professional soccer academy during the decade leading up to professionalism. The ideas and methods are applicable to all other sports.

Author(s): Julene Palacios-Saracho

Born in Gorliz (Spain). Currently studying a joint degree BA in Business Economics and BSc in Industrial Engineering. I love two intersections: (1) between math, economics and engineering, and (2) between science and sports. Played my first game in Spain’s professional soccer leagues at age 15. My hobbies include reading science (particularly, physics) and music (soundtracks). I play soccer for Athletic Bilbao Women and I am a big fan of Athletic Bilbao.

Ander Palacios-Saracho

Born in Gorliz (Spain). Currently studying a BSc in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence. Fascinated by the power of data, analytics, and recent advances in technology to try to answer all types of scientific questions, in both the social and natural sciences. Hobbies include soccer, bodyboarding, and free-diving in underwater kelp forests to observe octopus. I am a big fan of Athletic Bilbao, Nottingham Forest, Liverpool FC, and Tadej Pogacar.

No More Throwing Darts at the Wall: Developing Fair Handicaps for Darts using a Markov Decision Process

Short Abstract: Darts is a popular sport that caters to players of all different abilities, and it is therefore common for opponents to have mismatched skill levels. Handicaps are useful interventions that address this mismatch, keeping the game competitive by increasing the weaker player’s chances of winning. However, the design of handicaps in darts has historically been a lot like “throwing darts at the wall” with no rigorous approach. To fill this gap, we develop a framework to model the game of darts with different handicaps, allowing us to evaluate current approaches and design a novel, fairer handicap system.

Author(s): Timothy C.Y. Chan

Timothy Chan is the Associate Vice-President and Vice-Provost, Strategic Initiatives at the University of Toronto, the Canada Research Chair in Novel Optimization and Analytics in Health, a Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, and a Senior Fellow of Massey College. His primary research interests are in operations research, optimization, and applied machine learning, with applications in healthcare, medicine, sustainability, and sports. Along with co-author Doug Fearing, he received the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference research paper award in 2013. He recently got back into playing tennis and he is never going back.

Craig Fernandes

Craig Fernandes is a third-year Operations Research PhD Candidate and Vanier Scholar at the University of Toronto supervised by Profs. Timothy Chan and Ningyuan Chen. His research focuses on optimization, game theory & AI/ML techniques applied in economics, emerging markets, and sports. His research has been featured at MIT's Sloan Sports Analytics Conference (SSAC), the New England Symposium on Statistics in Sports (NESSIS), and the Sport Innovation (SPIN) Summit hosted by Own the Podium. He also previously worked as a research data scientist at Amazon and will be conducting a research visit this summer at Dartmouth College's Tuck School of Business. He picked up golf during the pandemic and is now an enthusiast.

Rachael Walker

Rachael Walker graduated from the University of Toronto with a BASc in Industrial Engineering and a minor in Artificial Intelligence Engineering. For her undergraduate thesis, she researched the application of stochastic optimization models in sports. Specifically, she examined how Markov models can be used to design fair handicap systems in the game of darts. Rachael recently started a new role on the data science team at the private equity firm Birch Hill Equity Partners. She is also an undeterred fan of the Toronto Maple Leafs.

Optimizing Baseball Fielder Positioning with Consideration for Adaptable Hitters

Short Abstract: This paper presents a novel approach to positioning baseball fielders to maximize expected outs or minimize expected runs allowed against an opposing hitter. We find evidence that our positioning approach is an improvement over MLB average positioning in terms of both hits and runs allowed. We then extend our approach to adaptable hitters who adjust their batted ball strategy in response to the defense’s positioning strategy by modeling the interaction as a zero-sum game and solving for an equilibrium pair of strategies. We demonstrate two examples where the game theory model is appropriate: against shift-beating hitters who pull the ball less frequently when the defense shifts against them and against pull-heavy left-handed hitters who threaten to bunt against an extreme shift.

Author(s): William Melville

William Melville received his undergraduate degree in applied and computational mathematics at BYU in 2020 before starting a job as an analyst with the Texas Rangers. He returned to BYU in 2022 where he is currently pursuing a PhD in computer science. His research focuses on applications of game theory to baseball strategy. His passion for baseball runs much deeper than just the analytics; he also has a great appreciation for the equipment of the game and makes wooden bats in his home woodshop.

Samuel Wise

Samuel Wise is an undergraduate at Brigham Young University in his final semester as a Statistics major with an emphasis in Data Science and a minor in Economics. He is from Walnut Creek, California and enjoys exploring his passion for sports through data analytics. He recently has been interested in ranking algorithms and their applications in sports. He is an avid fan of football and the New Orleans Saints, as well as basketball and the UFC. When he is not watching sports, he is watching movies and playing video games with his friends. 

Grant Nielson

Grant Nielson is in his final undergraduate year studying Statistics at BYU. He has enjoyed this past year working on baseball projects with IDeA labs, helping him towards his goals of attending grad school and working with a major league team. Having Dallas roots, his favorite memory is watching his Texas Rangers win the World Series in person last year. He also enjoys biking along the Wasatch Front, watching Moneyball, and playing piano and basketball.

Tristan Mott

Tristan Mott grew up in Austin, TX and later moved to Alpine, UT. He enjoys spending his free time traveling, backpacking, and fly fishing. In his third year at BYU, he is working on undergraduate degrees in computer engineering (major) and computer science (minor). He is passionate about playing and watching sports and loves working on research projects for the Texas Rangers and BYU baseball teams. He aspires to someday receive a PhD in computer science so that he can make contributions to the fields of sports, machine learning, and game theory.

Christopher Archibald

Christopher Archibald is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at BYU, where he has been since 2019.  His research focuses on Artificial Intelligence and Strategic Reasoning, including Sports Analytics. He received his undergraduate degree in Computer Engineering from BYU in 2006 and a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University in 2011 under the supervision of Yoav Shoham.  From 2011 to 2013 he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Alberta under the supervision of Michael Bowling.  From 2013 to 2019 he was an assistant professor at Mississippi State University. He enjoys teaching, playing games with his kids, and learning about obscure sports. 

David Grimsman

David Grimsman is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at Brigham Young University. He completed BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Brigham Young University in 2006 as a Heritage Scholar, and with a focus on signals and systems. After working for BrainStorm, Inc. for several years as a trainer and IT manager, he returned to Brigham Young University and earned an MS in Computer Science in 2016. He then received his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from UC Santa Barbara in 2021. His research interests include multi-agent systems, game theory, distributed optimization, network science, linear systems theory, and security of cyberphysical systems.

The Strain of Success: A Predictive Model for Injury Risk Mitigation and Team Success in Soccer

Short Abstract: Player injuries in soccer significantly impact team performance, club financial stability and player welfare, with the ‘Big Five’ European soccer leagues experiencing a staggering £513 million in injury-related costs during the 2021/22 season. In this paper, we present a novel forward-looking team selection model, framed as a Markov decision process and optimised with Monte Carlo tree search, that balances team performance with the risk of long-term player unavailability due to injury. We demonstrate that real-world teams could reduce the incidence of player injury by ~13% and wages inefficiently spent on injured players by ~11% using our data-driven team selection model.

Author(s): Gregory Everett

Gregory is a PhD candidate at the University of Southampton, where his research is focused on the use of AI to optimize team performance in soccer. Gregory has published papers previously in this field, focusing on optimizing collective team positioning and predicting player behaviour. He has also gained practical experience through an internship at SentientSports, and has a passion for the development of AI models to enhance the effectiveness of operational processes within soccer clubs.

Dr. Ryan Beal

Ryan is the CEO and Co-Founder of SentientSports, an AI startup dedicated to helping sports brands unlock the full potential of AI. The company specializes in providing personalized content and real-time analytics for innovative fan experiences. Holding a PhD from the University of Southampton, his research focused on AI applications in team sports, a domain in which he has published numerous papers. At SentientSports, Ryan has collaborated with many leading sports brands, including leading clubs in the Premier League and NFL. He has been recognized with a Royal Academy of Engineering 1851 Enterprise Fellowship, and his work has been featured in media outlets such as The Athletic and The Times.

Dr. Tim Matthews

Tim is CTO and co-founder of SentientSports as well as holding a PhD in Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence from the University of Southampton. His research includes creating SquadGuru, an AI system that surpasses 99% of human players in fantasy sports. At SentientSports, Dr. Matthews leads initiatives in developing AI tools for performance analysis and fan engagement, collaborating with various European football teams, including major English Premier League clubs. His work focuses on merging advanced AI techniques with sports analytics to enhance team performance and decision-making.

Prof. Sarvapali Ramchurn

Sarvapali is a leading expert in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Southampton, with a specific focus on trustworthy and responsible AI. He is a co-founder and the Chairman of SentientSports, and also serves as the CEO of Responsible AI UK, the UK government's flagship AI program. Additionally, Professor Ramchurn directs the UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Hub and has been recognized as a Turing Fellow. His significant academic contributions are evident in his over 7000 citations, and his work has gained widespread recognition, featuring in prominent media outlets like BBC News, New Scientist, Sky News, BBC Click, and Wired.

Prof. Timothy Norman

Professor Timothy Norman is the Head of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton and serves as the director of the UKRI Minds CDT. His extensive academic career is marked by a strong focus on broader AI topics, including multi-agent systems and AI planning and scheduling. He has been involved in sports research for the past 6 years with a number of his students.

2024 Poster Presenters

How to predict the performance of nba draft prospects.

Short Abstract: We introduce a new mathematical system for predicting outcomes of NBA draft prospects based on the outcomes of other previously drafted players. This approach, which is completely general and applicable to any sport, forms predictions as relevance-weighted averages of prior outcomes using a precise and theoretically justified assessment of relevance derived from principles of information theory. Crucially, a measure called “fit” indicates in advance the unique reliability of each individual prediction and dynamically focuses each prediction on the combinations of predictive variables and previous players that are most informative for the prediction task. Relevance-based prediction addresses complexities that are beyond the capacity of conventional prediction models, but in a way that is more transparent, more flexible, and more theoretically justified than widely used machine learning algorithms.

Author(s): David Turkington

David Turkington is a Founding Partner of Cambridge Sports Analytics. He is also Senior Managing Director and Head of State Street Associates, State Street Corporation’s Cambridge-based innovation hub. Dave is the author of more than 40 peer-reviewed scholarly articles and co-author of three books: Prediction Revisited, Asset Allocation: From Theory to Practice and Beyond, and A Practitioner’s Guide to Asset Allocation. His scholarly research has garnered numerous awards, including the prestigious Harry M. Markowitz Award for his research in relevance-based prediction. Dave graduated summa cum laude from Tufts University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mathematics and Quantitative Economics. 

Megan Czasonis

Megan Czasonis is a Founding Partner of Cambridge Sports Analytics. She is also Managing Director and Head of Portfolio Management Research at State Street Associates, State Street’s renowned innovation hub located at Harvard Square. Megan has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals and is a co-recipient of the prestigious Harry M. Markowitz Award for her research in relevance-based prediction. Megan is a coauthor of the acclaimed book, Prediction Revisited, which introduces an alternative mathematical system for forming predictions from data. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics and Finance from Bentley University.

Mark Kritzman

Mark Kritzman is a Founding Partner of Cambridge Sports Analytics. He is also a Founding Partner of Windham Capital Management and State Street Associates, and he teaches a graduate finance course at MIT Sloan. He has served on several boards including the Government Investment Corporation of Singapore, the Institute for Quantitative Research in Finance, the International Securities Exchange, The Investment Fund for Foundations, the MIT Sloan Finance Group, Protego Trust Corporation, and St. John’s University. He has published more than 100 articles in peer-reviewed journals and is the author or co-author of eight books including Prediction Revisited, Asset Allocation: From Theory to Practice and Beyond, The Portable Financial Analyst, and Puzzles of Finance. Mark has won numerous awards for his scholarly research including the Harry M. Markowitz Award for his research in relevance-based prediction. In 2004, Mark was elected a Batten Fellow at the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Virginia. Mark holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from St. John’s University and a Master of Business Administration degree with distinction from New York University.

Cel Kulasekaran

Cel Kulasekaran is a Founding Partner of Cambridge Sports Analytics. He is also Managing Partner at Windham Capital Management, where he leads applied research for Windham’s asset management business and its strategic partnerships. ​Cel is the founding architect of Windham’s innovation arm, Windham Labs, which delivers portfolio optimization and risk management technology to investors worldwide. His research has appeared in peer-reviewed academic journals. Cel holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematical Sciences with distinction from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and a Master of Arts degree in Mathematical Finance from Boston University. 

Noisy Judgments: A probability surface-based analysis of umpiring variability

Author(s): Emily-Anne Patt

Emily-Anne Patt is the manager for quantitative intelligence and methodologies supporting security and resilience at Alphabet, Inc. based in Washington, D.C. Her background is in econometrics and financial economics, with prior experience in several US government agencies. Fenway Park will always be home, but these days you can find her at Nationals Park or coaching the scholar athletes at the Washington Nationals Youth Baseball Academy. 

James Stockton

James Stockton, PhD. is the lead data scientist at Altamira Technologies supporting the United States Air Force Chief Data and AI Office based in northern Virginia. His background is in astronomy and astrophysics and he has worked as a data scientist in private industry, academia, and supported federal customers in the DoD/IC space for over a decade. He's an avid climber and mountaineer and will happily talk about mechanical advantage haul systems longer than any sane person should.

Player Pressure Map - A Novel Representation of Pressure in Soccer for Evaluating Player Performance in Different Game Contexts

Short Abstract: In Noisy Judgments: A probability surface-based analysis of umpiring variability, we establish the size, shape, and position of the strike zone as called during an MLB game by building a prior probability surface from 5.3 million called balls and strikes between the 2008 and 2022 seasons. We used this surface to evaluate changes in the actual strike zone over time, stress-testing the reliability of the model with established baseball facts related to batter and pitcher handedness and seasonal shifts. A sensitivity study shows the validity of the surface at lower pitch counts, allowing us to evaluate individual player and umpire performance across games and within a game. This analysis leads us to propose a novel methodology for evaluating a catcher's framing ability--the Framing Induced Strike Zone (FISZ).

Author(s): Chaoyi Gu

Aaron (Chaoyi Gu) received the MS degree (First class) in sports analytics and technologies from the Institute for Sport Business, Loughborough University, London, United Kingdom in 2020. Chaoyi is currently a Ph.D. from the Institute for Digital Technologies, Loughborough University, London. His research interests include machine learning, multi-agent systems, and sports analytics.

Jiaming (Jamie) Na is a PhD student at Loughborough University's Institute for Digital Technologies. With a background in statistics and a long-time passion for sports, his research centers on advancing sports analytics through computer vision AI models. His work aims to revolutionize performance analysis and strategic decision-making in athletics.

Yisheng Pei

Yisheng Pei is a third-year PhD student at Loughborough University London and a loyal Arsenal fan. His research interest lies in machine learning and deep learning applications in sports analytics, particularly soccer. He is always looking forward to understanding and quantifying players’ efforts on the pitch.n should.

Varuna De Silva

Varuna De Silva is a Reader (Associate Professor) in Machine Intelligence at Loughborough University. He directs the machine intelligence lab at Loughborough University London, where his team works on multi agent reinforcement learning, multimodal machine learning and their applications in Sports Analytics and Autonomous Systems.

A model-based risk-impact analysis of dribble actions in women's soccer

Short Abstract: Our paper presents a model-based approach to quantify individual dribbles in women's soccer based on value and risk attributes. By analyzing over 48,000 dribbles in the 2023 Women's World Cup using machine learning techniques, we measure the expected probability of success and the expected threat of each dribble. The results highlight players who outperform expectations, but can also be used to analyze the playing philosophy of different teams. The findings have implications for player recruitment and development as well as team tactics in women's football. The source code can be found on https://github.com/stefanthiem/xT_Dribbles_Pressure .

Author(s): Tobias Beckman

After completing his master's degree in mathematics, Tobias joined the European consultancy d-fine in 2019. Having played soccer enthusiastically from an early age, he quickly joined the company's sports analytics team. There, he now uses his knowledge to quantify the youth development work of soccer clubs, develop methods for match analysis and develop customized scouting platforms using modern open-source tools.

Gerhard Waldhart

Gerhard is a sports scientist and soccer analyst, currently serving as the Head of Match Analysis for VfL Wolfsburg Women, champion of the German Bundesliga in 2022 and UWCL Women’s Champions League Finalist 2023. Gerhard has been a licensed coach for 17 years and is currently pursuing a master's degree in match analysis at the University of Cologne – always looking for an added edge through data and analytics.

Stefan Thiem

Stefan is a Senior Consultant at the European consultancy d-fine, where he works as a data scientist. In his projects, he supports sports clubs gaining insights from data for match analysis and talent evaluation. He graduated from the University of Münster with a PhD in sports economics and with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics. In addition, he has been holding a soccer coaching license from the UEFA for seven years. Stefan is very passionate about sports in general and he maintains his own sports podcast, where he covers and discusses interesting scientific questions related to sports.

Oliver Wohak

Oliver is a Senior Manager at the European consultancy d-fine, where he supports his clients in tackling the most complex challenges in digital transformation. Driven by his passion for sports and complemented by his master’s degrees in physics and Business Administration, Oliver built up the Sports Analytics team within d-fine and has been supporting clubs and associations in developing internal data analytics and IT solutions for over 5 years. While his main focus is on scouting, match analysis and talent development in soccer, his experience also includes ice hockey, basketball and handball. Stemming from his time in the US, Oliver is an avid American Football fan, roots for the Eagles and especially enjoys Fantasy Football season.

Using Tracking Data to Build Offensive Line Development Tools

Short Abstract: American football has in recent years made drastic shifts towards the quantitative. The proliferation of charting and tracking data has given us the ability to better evaluate and value players, but player development has been left wanting. In this paper we use NFL's Next Gen Stats data to build tools for offensive linemen in pass protection, which will help teams more efficiently watch film, monitor performance and fitness, build rosters, and game plan, with player development as the central focus. 

Author(s): Eric Eager

Eric Eager is the VP of Research and Development at SumerSports. He holds a doctorate in mathematical biology from the University of Nebraska - Lincoln, and has published over 30 papers, including three at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference. He is the co-author of the book: Football Analytics with Python and R: Learning Data Science Through the Lens of Sports. 

Tej Seth is a data scientist at SumerSports with a focus on football analytics. He graduated from the University of Michigan, where he worked with the football team. He is an avid Lions fan and outside of football loves listening to podcasts and going to the gym.

  Ben Brown  

Ben Brown is a data scientist at SumerSports. Prior to joining Sumer, he was the Head of Betting Innovation at PFF, where he won numerous DFS tournaments at both the NFL and NCAA level and hosted the PFF Daily Betting Podcast and various live streams.

Haley English

Haley English is currently a Football Information Intern with the Detroit Lions. She recently graduated from Villanova University and previously interned at Pro Football Focus. Outside of football analytics, she enjoys taking trips to the lake and watching her former sport, gymnastics.

Geoff Schwartz

From his pre-Bar Mitzvah stuttering days to being drafted 241st (out of 252) in the 2008 NFL draft, Geoff Schwartz has overcome adversity to exceed all expectations and impressively succeed in life. His eight-year career included stints with the Carolina Panthers, Minnesota Vikings, Kansas City Chiefs and New York Giants, where he signed a 4-year deal to become a starting guard on the Eli Manning-led team. Unfortunately, injuries derailed Geoff’s career and caused his retirement from the NFL in February 2017. Before his retirement Geoff began a seamless transition to a career in media. He can be heard daily on Sirius XM Radio 373 hosting PAC-12 Today and on the weekend hosting Fox Sports Radio. Geoff is a Fox Sports NFL gambling analyst, providing digital and written content. He hosts his own podcast, Geoff Schwartz Is Smarter Than You, where Geoff makes the average football fan smarter. He appears routinely on sports radio talk shows and podcasts throughout the country offering his insights on football, other sports plus a wide variety of non-sports related topics.

How Much Do Faceoffs Matter? Translating Faceoffs to Goals, Wins, and Championships in Hockey

Short Abstract: In hockey, faceoffs have long been acknowledged as important drivers of puck possession, but their actual impact on scoring outcomes remains inadequately measured. It is acceptedly evident that a center winning 54% of their faceoffs outperforms one with a 51% success rate, but the tangible extent of this advantage in terms of goals, wins, and losses remains underexplored. This research fills the void by continuing the effort to translate faceoff results to scoring outcomes, measuring faceoff performance in goals, wins, and losses in a novel manner. We explore evidence that faceoffs are an undervalued championship-caliber market inefficiency and offer models enabling General Managers to see role-specific projections of how different personnel and usage could maximize offense, defense, and championship chances.

Author(s): Tad Berkery

Tad is a senior at Johns Hopkins University majoring in Computer Science and Economics and minoring in Computational Medicine and Applied Mathematics & Statistics. He has completed research or worked directly for teams spanning the Big Ten, MLB, NHL, and NFL. Tad has also been featured in The Washington Post and is the author of What’s the “Right” Career? . In his free time, you can find him hanging out with family and friends, playing games, or trying his hand at becoming an at-home barista.

Chase Seibold

Chase is a recent graduate of Syracuse University, holding Bachelor's degrees in Economics and Sport Analytics, along with a Master's degree in Applied Data Science. During his time at Syracuse, he interned with Wasserman in the baseball department and contributed to the Washington Nationals R&D group as an intern. He is currently an R&D Analyst for the Nationals.

Max Stevens

My name is Max Stevens, and I am currently a student at Johns Hopkins University, set to graduate in May 2024 with degrees in Applied Mathematics & Statistics and Economics. Professionally, I have gained valuable experience as a Data Analyst intern at Attain Sports, a sports holding company with interests in baseball and soccer. My role involved predictive modeling for game scenarios and applying my analytical skills to enhance the business aspects of their sports portfolio. Previously, I was a member of the Johns Hopkins football team. I am a dedicated fan of Boston sports having grown up in Lexington, Massachusetts. Most recently, I have discovered a passion for European football and have pledged myself to the Tottenham Hotspur football club, COYS.

Justin is a recent graduate from Johns Hopkins who was a part of the Johns Hopkins University Sports Analytics Research Group for three years. During his time working under Dr. Anton Dahbura, he worked on projects in baseball, football, and hockey, including projects for the Baltimore Orioles and Ravens. Since graduating in May with degrees in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics & Statistics, he has been working on the AWS Cloudfront Team as a Software Developer Engineer.

Anton Dahbura

Anton (Tony) Dahbura received the BSEE, MSEE, and PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Johns Hopkins University in 1981, 1982, and 1984, respectively. He served as a researcher at AT&T Bell Laboratories, was an Invited Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at Princeton University, and served as Research Director of the Motorola Cambridge Research Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In January, 2012 he was named Executive Director of the Johns Hopkins University Information Security Institute in Baltimore and joined the faculty of the Johns Hopkins University Department of Computer Science as an Associate Research Scientist. In September 2018 he was named Co-Director of the Johns Hopkins University Institute for Assured Autonomy. Tony has had a love for baseball since childhood. He was named to the National Under-18 Baseball Team of El Salvador, where he lived for most of his early years, and was an outfielder for Johns Hopkins as an undergraduate. In 2010 he became co-owner of the Hagerstown Suns, the low-A affiliate of the Washington Nationals.

Analyzing NBA Player Positions and Interactions with Density-Functional Fluctuation Theory

Short Abstract: Player tracking data can enhance the quantification of player abilities and our understanding of team composition and broader team strategies. In this work, we demonstrate how density-functional fluctuation theory (DFFT), an extension of a Nobel Prize-winning physics approach, can process basketball tracking data by treating players as interacting densities. By training the interactions on different play outcomes, we can evaluate play-outcome likelihoods based on player positions, determine which players are in strong or weak positions, and understand which players consistently instigate strong responses from the opposing team (i.e., ‘player gravity’). We find that our approach not only identifies the overall strengths of a player, but also identifies subtleties such as those who are left-handed (e.g., D. Russell) or who instigate changes non-locally through frequent passes (e.g., N. Jokic). 

Author(s): Boris Barron

Boris Barron is a PhD candidate in Theoretical Physics at Cornell University, where he is affiliated with the Cornell Population Center. He holds a Master of Science in Mathematical and Theoretical Physics from the University of Oxford and a Bachelor of Science in Biophysics from York University. His research experience has spanned microfluidics, laser stability physics, machine learning, and increasingly complex systems in the broadest sense. Recently, he has been developing a novel framework for understanding residential segregation, with work that has included presentations at the U.S. Census Bureau, American Sociological Association (ASA), American Physical Society (APS), and the Population Association of America (PAA). His work has been funded in part by NSERC PGS-D. Beyond academia, Boris used to be a competitive ballroom dancer and is a speed typist, averaging over 120 words per minute –  height limitations have prevented him from being a serious contender in basketball.

Nathan S. Sitaraman

Nathan Sitaraman is a postdoctoral associate in the Cornell Laboratory for Accelerator-based ScienceS and Education (CLASSE) and a part-time consultant for the Dallas Mavericks. He graduated from Yale University cum laude with a bachelor's degree in physics, and completed his PhD in physics at Cornell. His research focuses on improving teamwork among superconducting electrons, as well as the much more complicated problem of improving teamwork among basketball players.

Tomas A. Arias

Tomás Arias, a Professor of Physics at Cornell University, holds SB and PhD degrees in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he also briefly served on the faculty in the late 1990s before joining Cornell. He is an expert in developing novel density-functional theory (DFT) methods, with thirty years of experience and more than 60 publications on this topic alone, contributing to a total of 91 publications with over 25,000 citations. His recent work involves the development of joint density-functional theory (JDFT), a specialized method for analyzing the equilibrium of liquids and solids, and density functional fluctuation theory (DFFT), which extends the theory to understand the collective behaviors of human crowds and animal groups, as well as human residential segregation and group sports.

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Running through March and April, SARC is more than just a contest—it’s a guided immersion into the research process, designed for experts and newcomers alike!

You’ll enroll in immersive workshops that guide you through the research process from beginning to end and prepare you for your own research proposal.

Participants compete with the sharpest young minds around the world. 

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“Participating in the High School Academic Research Competition (SARC) was a truly incredible and transformative experience for me. What made this competition stand out was its inclusive approach, which allowed participants to conduct research on any topic of their choice. Moreover, the admin team hosted informative bootcamps, gave access to academic research resources, and created a community of like-minded peers.”

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“SARC was an amazing experience. The workshops conducted were invaluable in guiding me through the research journey as a beginner, from formulating a research question to crafting a proposal. The resources & workshops provided a solid foundation for understanding the research process. Connecting with equally motivated individuals worldwide made it a truly invaluable learning opportunity.”

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Paper Title: Identifying Barriers to Completion of Radiotherapy: Baseline Findings of a Commission on Cancer National Quality Improvement Project

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15 Research Competitions for High School Students

Students benefit from participating in research competitions in a variety of ways, including learning how to present their findings and gaining experience in an important field of their interest. Competitions are not only a strong extracurricular activity, but reaching the finals can also help students earn college scholarships. Being a significant achievement, it may even open opportunities, such as laying the groundwork for a career in research and helping one land an internship.

It also aids them in becoming competitive candidates for college admissions by demonstrating students' intellectual prowess and capacity to work on a rigorous project, either individually or as part of a team. Even if they don't win or place in the competition, students can use their participation to demonstrate what they have learned about their chosen academic field and how they have explored their passion for the discipline.

In this post, we have compiled a list of 15 well-respected research competitions that are sure to boost your high school profile.

Here are 15 Research Competitions for High School Students:

1. Regeneron Science Talent Search

This talent hunt, which began in 1942 as a program of the Society for Science & the Public (the Society), is widely regarded as the nation's most renowned high school science research competition. Young scientists present their original findings to a panel of nationally recognized professional scientists as part of the competition. 300 Regeneron STS scholars are chosen from 1,800 applicants, and they and their schools are each granted $2,000. From the group of scholars, forty finalists are chosen, who get an all-expenses-paid trip to Washington, D.C., and compete for another $1.8 million in prizes, including a top prize of $250,000.

2. MIT THINK Scholars Program

Most research competitions require participants to have already completed the project, but the THINK program is different in that students only need to have completed background research for a project in the science, technology, or engineering fields before applying. Those whose projects are selected receive $1,000 funding and mentorship from MIT students. They also get a paid trip to MIT's campus to meet professors in their field of research, tour labs, and attend MIT's xFair. Students in grades 9th to 12th are eligible.

3. Google Science Fair

Students aged 13 to 18 submit science research ideas to be judged by a panel of scientists and experts in this competition. At various levels, victors are rewarded generous scholarships, cool gear, and unique opportunities such as internships. Past projects include battery-free lighting and wearable sensors to improve the safety of Alzheimer's patients.

4. AAN Neuroscience Research Prize

The nervous system/brain is the center of this competition, with students investigating and solving problems linked to it. Students do their own neuroscience research, which is evaluated based on its relevance to neuroscience, originality, data interpretation, and research reports. The competition is open to students in grades 9 through 12, and only individual entries are accepted.

5. Odyssey of the Mind

This challenge encourages high school students to think outside the box by identifying problems and developing innovative solutions. After a school or community group purchases membership, they qualify for the competition, which takes place at the regional, state, and national levels. The competition is open to students from grades 9th to 12th. 6. International BioGENEius Challenge

Recognizing outstanding research in biotechnology, this challenge gives students the opportunity to win cash awards for their work. Finalists present their research before a panel of expert biotech judges. Students receive the unique opportunity of being able to meet top industry professionals and gain valuable advice and insight on their projects.

7. Davidson Fellows

Students 18 and under who have completed a project in one of several subjects, including STEM, are eligible for the Davidson Fellows Scholarship, which awards $50,000, $25,000, and $10,000 scholarships. It's a prestigious and competitive scholarship to obtain, and the projects the recipients generate are frequently on par with those produced by college graduates. Research projects should "contribute a work that is acknowledged as an extraordinary accomplishment by experts in the field and has the potential to benefit society."

8. ExploraVision

The Toshiba/NSTA ExploraVision initiative is a competition for students to improve their STEM skills. Participants research a current technology and then envision what it will look like in 20 years, including development processes, benefits and drawbacks, and challenges. Students work in groups of 2-4 with the help of a teacher who serves as a mentor.

9. Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair (Regeneron ISEF)

As the premier science fair in the United States, Regeneron ISEF is one of the best-known high school science competitions. Even ranking within the top 100 is enough to help one's university application stand out.

Unlike Regeneron STS, students can't apply directly to the ISEF. Instead, they have to first participate in a regional science fair. Doing well there helps the student qualify for the next ISEF rounds. Key factors for winning include innovation and originality. To show originality for the ISEF, students need to tackle a problem that's interesting to the scientific community. It is important to have a good overview of academic science literature in the field that one's project is in, and it helps to have a professional academic scientist or engineer as a mentor.

10. Stemanities Research Competition

A national competition, this event invites students in their freshman, sophomore, junior, or senior year to conduct research in STEM and the humanities to develop a more sophisticated understanding of a topic. Stemanities is sponsored by the Institute for Biomedical Sciences, and finalists are invited to La Jolla, California to present their work and compete for monetary awards.

11. Destination ImagiNation

For students who have a penchant for problem solving, Destination ImagiNation helps one refine their critical thinking skills. An international competition for students in kindergarten through college, Destination ImagiNation teaches life skills while encouraging imagination, through problem solving, creativity, and research. In this competition, students work in groups of five to seven to develop solutions to Team Challenges.

12. Stockholm Junior Water Prize

Students compete in this competition to provide solutions to the world's present and future water problems. State winners receive a medal and an all-expenses-paid travel to the national competition at The Ohio State University. Previous winning themes at the state level include "Protecting the Aquatic Environment from Household Microfibers" and "Optimizing Straw Mulch Use in Agriculture." A $10,000 scholarship and a free ticket to the international competition in Stockholm, Sweden are awarded to the national winner. The international winner receives a prize of $15,000 for themselves and $5,000 for their school.

13. TOPPS Competition for High School Psychology Students

Students write a 3,000-word essay on a specific topic, using peer-reviewed psychological research. "Non-human animals in psychology" was the research theme for 2019. Four winners are selected for a prize of $250. Students from grades 9th to 12th are eligible to compete.

14. Clean Tech Competition

Students must identify a problem with our natural world and resource consumption that they wish to address, develop a sustainable solution, and submit a research paper to the judges as part of the Clean Tech Competition research and design challenge. There are no topic restrictions; entrants must just have one goal: to develop a long-term solution to an environmental problem.

Each team should consist of one to three students who must be between the ages of 15 and 18 at the time of submission. Following the submission of papers, the top 10 teams from the worldwide pool will be chosen to compete in the virtual global finals. They'll submit their research and prototypes to the judges and win cash awards, with the winning team receiving continued mentorship from an expert in their field.

15. Junior Science and Humanities Symposium

This scholarship competition encourages students to pursue research in the fields of science, engineering, technology, or mathematics. Students can submit their original research findings in front of a judging panel and their peers at the symposia. Furthermore, attending regional or national symposia provides students with a variety of opportunities, such as seminars, panel discussions, career exploration, research lab visits, and networking events.

How to select which research competition to participate in:

While the above list includes a number of prestigious competitions, it is definitely not exhaustive in nature. If you don't find one that fits what you're looking for, it is encouraged to find one that does, with careful research! Be sure to use your judgment when considering unknown competitions, and only select those that have ample information about them transparently available. Be sure to also look out for competitions that charge unnecessarily high fees to participate.

Typically, older and national competitions are better known and have a larger chance of standing out on college applications. It is also important to remember that a cash prize may not be the only criteria to decide on what competition is worth participating in. Several competitions also give out other benefits to winners, such as mentorships and invitations to conferences, each of which are equally important as a stepping stone in a student's research career aspirations.

Additionally, you can also work on independent research in AI to present at these competitions, through Veritas AI's Fellowship Program!

Veritas AI focuses on providing high school students who are passionate about the field of AI a suitable environment to explore their interests. The programs include collaborative learning, project development, and 1-on-1 mentorship.  

These programs are designed and run by Harvard graduate students and alumni and you can expect a great, fulfilling educational experience. Students are expected to have a basic understanding of Python or are recommended to complete the AI scholars program before pursuing the fellowship. 

The   AI Fellowship  program will have students pursue their own independent AI research project. Students work on their own individual research projects over a period of 12-15 weeks and can opt to combine AI with any other field of interest. In the past, students have worked on research papers in the field of AI & medicine, AI & finance, AI & environmental science, AI & education, and more! You can find examples of previous projects   here . 

Location : Virtual

$1,790 for the 10-week AI Scholars program

$4,900 for the 12-15 week AI Fellowship 

$4,700 for both

Need-based financial aid is available. You can apply   here . 

Application deadline : On a rolling basis. Applications for fall cohort have closed September 3, 2023. 

Program dates : Various according to the cohort

Program selectivity : Moderately selective

Eligibility : Ambitious high school students located anywhere in the world. AI Fellowship applicants should either have completed the AI Scholars program or exhibit past experience with AI concepts or Python.

Application Requirements: Online application form, answers to a few questions pertaining to the students background & coding experience, math courses, and areas of interest. 

One other option – Lumiere Research Scholar Program

If you are interested in a selective, structured research program, consider applying to the Lumiere Research Scholar Program , a selective online high school program for students founded by Harvard and Oxford researchers. The program pairs you with a full-time researcher to develop your own independent research project, in any discipline of your choice. Last year over 1500 students applied to 500 slots in the research program! You can find the application form here.

2023 CTBUH International Student Research Competition

The 2024 competition will open in early 2024 (Date TBD).

The goal of the CTBUH International Student Research Competition is to assist talented students, working in groups under the guidance of a professor, to focus on a relevant research question, and create an engaging output as a response. It is up to the students to interpret the theme, and outline how their research will address it, including how the funds will be used to support the intended outcome. In fact, the ultimate objective of this award is to give the chance to students of any discipline to immerse themselves—for the first time, in detailed, academic/applied research, under the guidance of a professor—in a topic in which they are particularly interested and invested. Thus, design/build studio proposals are also welcomed, with practical outputs of the research, in addition to academic research proposals.

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The evaluation of proposals will be guided by the expert jury, with guidance from the funding sponsor. The jury reflects a group of tall building/urban experts from around the world, as well as academics and university professors. CTBUH reserves the right to reject all applications and make no awards.

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Weinberg center / irrci research paper competition.

This research competition is the successor to the IRRCi Investor Research Paper Award, which had become a prominent award garnering significant attention amongst the investment community, academia and policymakers. The John L. Weinberg/IRRCi Research Paper Award, as its predecessor did, highlights innovative research.

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2024 Research paper competition winners

The three John L. Weinberg/IRRCi research paper competition winners were announced at the 2024 Corporate Governance Symposium on March 17, 2023. The other eight finalist papers were also presented.

Congratulations to the winning papers:

• Do board connections between product market peers impede competition? Authors:   Radhakrishnan Gopalan (Washington University in St. Louis, deceased), Renping Li (Washington University in St. Louis), Alminas Zaldoka ( National University of Singapore ) Read the Paper
• The Social Cost of Liquidity Disclosure: Evidence from Hospitals Authors:   Thomas Bourveau (Columbia University), Xavier Giroud (Columbia University, Yifan Ji (University of South Carolina), Xuelin Li (Columbia University) Read the Paper
• Specialist Directors| Authors:   Yaron Nili (University of Wisconsin Law School) and Roy Shapira (Reichman University) Read the Paper

Read more about the 2024 Symposium and the papers on the 2024 Corporate Governance Symposium Event page

2023 Research paper competition winners

The two John L. Weinberg/IRRCi research paper competition winners were announced at the 2023 Corporate Governance Symposium on March 17, 2023. The other eight finalist papers were also presented.

•   “Female Equity Analysts and Corporate Environmental and Social Performance” Authors: Kai Li (University of British Columbia), Feng Mai (Stevens Institute of Technology), Gabriel Wong (Cardiff University), Chelsea Yang (University of British Columbia), and Tengfei Zhang (Rutgers University)

•   “Conflicting Fiduciary Duties and Fire Sales of VC-backed Start-ups” Bo Bian (University of British Columbia), Yingxiang Li (University of British Columbia), and Casimiro A. Nigro (Goethe University)

Read more about the 2023 Symposium and the papers   HERE .

Research paper competition winners announced March 2022 at the virtual Symposium

John L. Weinberg/IRRCi research paper competition winners were announced at the 2022 virtual Symposium on March 11, 2022. The six other finalist papers were also presented.

• Is History Repeating Itself? The (Un)predictable Past of ESG Ratings Florian Berg (MIT), Kornelia Fabisik (Frankfurt), and Zacharias Sautner (Frankfurt)
• Bargaining with Private Equity: Implications for Hospital Prices and Patient Welfare Tong Liu (Wharton)

Read more  about the 2022 Symposium and the papers.

2020-2021 Research Paper Award Competition

Research paper competition winners to be presented at the virtual 2021 symposium on march 16, 2021.

John L. Weinberg/IRRCi research paper competition winners were presented at the 2021 virtual Symposium on March 16, 2021.The six finalist papers were also presented.

• The ESG-Innovation Disconnect: Evidence from Green Patenting Lauren Cohen (Harvard & NBER)   (Presenter) , Umit Gurun (UT Dallas) and Quoc Nguyen (DePaul U.)
• The Distribution of Voting Rights to Shareholders Vyacheslav Fos (Boston College)   (Presenter) , Cliff Holderness (Boston College)

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Virtual 2021 Corporate Governance Symposium – Academic Portion Tuesday, March 16, 2021 / 9:45 am to 3:00 pm

2019-2020 Research Paper Award Competition

Weinberg center announces winners of the john l. weinberg/irrci research paper award.

John L. Weinberg/IRRCi research paper winners will be presented at the 2020 Symposium on March 17, 2020.

The winning papers are:

• “Does Revlon Matter? An Empirical and Theoretical Study” by Matthew D. Cain, Berkeley Center for Law and Business; Sean J. Griffith, Fordham Law School (Presenter); Robert J. Jackson, Jr., New York University School of Law; Steven Davidoff Solomon, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law
• “Corporate Culture: Evidence from the Field” by John R. Graham, Duke University & NBER; Jillian Grennan, Duke University (Presenter); Campbell R. Harvey, Duke University & NBER; Shivaram Rajgopal, Columbia University

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2020 Corporate Governance Symposium “Critical Issues for Boards and Investors in 2020″John L. Weinberg/IRRCi Investor

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We have exciting news for all practitioners, academicians, researchers, government officials, and students interested in the energy field! We will hold the “PYC Paper Competition 2023” as part of our biennial flagship program, PYC International Energy Conference 2023. Join now and stand a chance to win a total prize of IDR55,000,000,00!

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This year, PYC will hold its biennial flagship program, PYC International Energy Conference 2023, to bring local and global stakeholders, including but not limited to students, researchers, experts, governments and private sectors to discuss the energy sector in the world and Indonesia in particular. As a special pre-event, PYC will conduct  a paper competition with the theme of “Energy Security for a Sustainable Future”. This theme was chosen considering the importance of energy security for a sustainable future, particularly during the recovery of the COVID-19 pandemic. Along with the recovery in the energy sector after COVID-19, maximizing the potential of energy resources is a vital step to enhancing the energy security of a country. These energy resources could come from both new and renewable energy as well as fossil energy. The development and utilization of the energy will act as bridging energy during the transition period towards a sustainable future. In addition, it is also important for countries to follow sustainable development principles in planning energy security development.

The paper competition aims to stimulate high-quality research to gather insights, analyses and up-to-date findings from practitioners, academicians, researchers, government officials or students on matters of energy security and sustainable development.

The objectives of the paper competition are as follows:

• To stimulate research on socioeconomic aspect in energy security;
• To stimulate research on technological aspect in energy security;
• To stimulate research on policy aspect in energy security;
• To identify potential papers to be submitted for the Indonesian Journal of Energy, a peer-reviewed journal in the energy topics published by Purnomo Yusgiantoro Center (PYC) twice a year (February and August). 

“Energy Security for a Sustainable Future”

Sub-themes:

• energy security
• energy economics
• energy analysis
• energy modeling
• integrated energy systems
• energy planning
• environmental and energy management
• energy conservation
• energy efficiency
• energy innovation
• fuel and energy technology
• biomass and bioenergy
• new and renewable energy
• energy storage
• energy finance
• energy geopolitics
• energy law and policy

The paper competition is open to the general public free of charge, but aim participation from:

• Professionals;
• Practitioners;
• Academicians;
• Researchers;
• Government officials;

Open : 1 February 2023

Abstract Submission Deadline: 30 April 2023

Full Paper Submission Deadline: 31 July 2023

Finalists Announcement: 1 September 2023

Final Presentation by Finalists: 15 September 2023

Abstract Submission: Click here

1st Winner : IDR 10,000,000

2nd Winner : IDR 9,000,000

3rd Winner : IDR 8,000,000

4th Winner : IDR 7,000,000

5th Winner : IDR 6,000,000

6th Winner : IDR 5,000,000

7th Winner : IDR 4,000,000

8th Winner : IDR 3,000,000

9th Winner : IDR 2,000,000

10th Winner : IDR 1,000,000

*Exclusive of all taxes

Winners must submit their papers to PYC’s Indonesian Journal of Energy (IJE).

General Rules of Participation

• The paper can be written by or a product of one or multiple authors;
• Entries must not contain any discriminatory or obscene language/content;
• Entries must be of original work;
• The submitted paper should be written in English;
• Registrants can submit more than one paper at the same time;
• Participation in our competition is free of charge. There is no registration/administration fee associated with the application or submission;
• The latest abstract submission deadline is 30 April 2023 ;
• Notification of abstract acceptance is 19 May 2023 ;
• The latest full paper submission deadline is 31 July 2023 ;
• Notification of paper finalists is 1 September 2023 ;
• The finalists will present their paper in front of the reviewers and audience at the PYC International Energy Conference 2023 on 15 September 2023;
• The paper cannot be withdrawn once it is accepted;
• All materials will be the property of PYC once they are submitted;
• The final decision of winners is final and deemed absolute. It cannot be rescinded under any circumstances once it is announced;
• The winners will be announced on PYC International Energy Conference at 16 September 2023 ;
• The top ten winners are obligated to submit the paper to the Indonesian Journal of Energy and actively participate in the peer-review process;
• Authors who are not included in the top ten winners are also invited to submit their papers to the Indonesian Journal of Energy and actively participate in the peer-review process.

The Paper Format

The submitted paper, in principle, must contain the following content:

• Background/Introduction;
• Discussion of the underlying theory and analysis;
• Conclusions;
• References;
• Abstract and caption of tables and figures: Times New Roman font size 10, single line spacing;
• Titles: Written in English, Times New Roman font size 18, Font Bold, 1.5 line spacing;
• Footnotes: Times New Roman font size 9, single line spacing;
• The full paper shall contain (i) the full name(s) of the author(s) without any title or degree, (ii) name of the department or institutional affiliation, (iii) email address(es) of the author(s);
• Plagiarism below 15%;
• Reference: APA Style. The citation includes a minimum of 3 citations from journal/publication indexed by Scopus;
• Detailed paper guidelines: https://bit.ly/PYCPaperCompetition2023Template

Paper Presentation Guidelines 

1. General Guidelines

• Paper presenter must create a presentation based on the given template.
• The presentation materials for the paper presenter must be submitted prior to 11 September 2023.

2. Paper Presentation

• The presentation time is 10 minutes.
• Paper presenter should adjust the number of slides accordingly for a 10 minute presentation as no extra time will be given.
• There will be 20 minutes of Q&A session including feedback from the reviewers given for each paper presenter.

3. Paper Powerpoint Format

• Please strictly follow the powerpoint template provided by PYC. The template and guideline will be disseminate through the email at the day after the full paper finalists announcement. Feel free to use one of the ppt layouts or mix all of the layouts in the ppt file. Presenters can mix the layout using the given templates.
• Please make sure the font size is large enough (min. 24pt). Hence, it can be seen clearly by the audience.
• Please submit to [email protected] only in .PPTX and .PDF files format prior to 11 September 2023 .
• Please use the email subject: [PYC IEC 2023] PAPER_NAME_TITLE and the file name: PAPER_NAME_TITLE. For example, email subject: [PYC IEC 2023] PAPER_DEWA_ENERGY SECURITY. and file name: PAPER_DEWA_ENERGY SECURITY.

Submission Guideline

Participants will need to submit the full paper through the online form provided by the PYC: bit.ly/PYCFullPaperCompetition2023 .

Paper Evaluation

The submitted papers are expected to be evaluated by three juries on 2-28 August 2023.

Announcement

The best ten papers based on the juries’ assessment will be announced on PYC International Energy Conference on 16 September 2023.

For more information on PYC Paper Competition 2023, please kindly contact us through email at [email protected] or through our WhatsApp number +62 811-1888-932.

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The IEOM Undergraduate STEM Research Competition will recognize outstanding research presentation in the field of industrial engineering and operations management presented by student(s). Students can submit abstract only. The presentation will be judged based on the presentation only. A group of academics / professionals will serve as judges. Scoring rubrics will be used for both parts of the judging. Winners will receive award certificates. The winning awards will be given at the 2023 Manila Conference.

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• The submitter must be undergraduate student or recent graduate.
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• The abstract/paper must be presented at the conference.

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Research paper contest in competition law (2023./2024.).

In order to encourage creative thinking and support the most diligent competition law students and young lawyers, the law firm PricewaterhouseCoopers Legal (PwC Legal) in cooperation with the Competition Council (CC) and the Riga Graduate School of Law is launching a competition for research papers in competition law for the third year in a row. The winner of the competition will receive a cash prize of EUR 1500, which will be awarded by PwC Legal, as well as the opportunity to intern at the Competition Council and other incentive prizes.

The competition requires participants to prepare and submit a research paper on competition law, setting out a reasoned perspective on the application of competition law, supported by legal reasoning. The paper may be in English or Latvian, may be prepared specifically for the competition or may have been previously published or prepared as part of a study programme.

The competition is open to both bachelor’s, master’s or doctoral law students and practising lawyers born after 1 January 1998.

Juris Gaiķis, chairman of the Competition Council: “Each year, the participants present increasingly complex topics and their presentations cover a wide range of topics – from breaches of dominant positions to current digital markets and competition aspects thereof. We hope that this year's submissions will also bring new trends and topics with practical application, making a significant contribution to competition law. In order to reward young professionals for their academic interest in competition law, the Competition Council will provide the winner with an internship that will give them the opportunity to apply their theoretical knowledge in practice and open up new career opportunities.”

Māris Butāns, head of Competition & EU Law Practice Group at PwC Legal: “This year in Latvia marks the impact of the global economy on society and business. The role of different economic sectors in the purchasing power of society varies, but competition between companies remains the main driver in reducing inflation. Industries that have been slower to develop are struggling to retain their customers, while those that have been faster to develop are being caught by the regulatory framework. How these companies adapt can contribute to or detract from the well-being of society. This year, we also expect students to be creative and imaginative in their solutions to the various challenges.”

Ieva Rācenāja, director of the Riga Graduate School of Law: “Having been surprised and delighted by the willingness of the previous years' participants to explore, to seek answers to difficult questions and to offer their own solutions to practical problems, we are confident that this year's competition will be the first or next step on the road to academic excellence. We encourage every student to consider taking part in this competition.”

Submissions must be made electronically between 24 October 2023 and 19 May 2024 and shall be sent to:  [email protected].

All submissions will be evaluated by a jury and the five finalists with the highest marks will be selected by 27 May 2024. The finalists will be invited to present their work to the jury by 14 June 2024. In addition to a cash prize, the winner will be offered an internship at the Competition Council.

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13th Nani Palkhivala Memorial Research Paper Competition 2023

Posted on: August 2nd, 2023

13 th Nani Palkhivala Memorial Research Paper Competition 2023

The All India Federation of Tax Practitioners ( AIFTP ), the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal ( ITAT ) Bar Association and The Goods and Service Tax Practitioners Association of Maharashtra ( GSTPAM ) in association with Maharashtra National Law University Mumbai are pleased to announce the 13 th Nani Palkhivala Memorial Research Paper Competition, 2023.

The topics for this year’s Research Paper for Professionals are:

Topic 1: GIFT City: Hits & Misses (Direct and Indirect Taxation aspects)

Topic 2: GST: A good & simple tax – Controversial issues and possible solutions

Each article can be authored by a maximum of two authors. The entries will be judged by the Hon’ble Judges of the High Court and Senior Advocates. The three best articles will be awarded cash prizes, along with a certificate of merit. The winning research paper will be published in the AIFTP Journal, Journal of GSTPAM, ITATonline website.

Kindly confirm your participation for the same by September 15, 2023.

The entries must reach ITAT Bar Association on or before October 06, 2023, by 5:00 P.M. IST.

Rules For The 13 th Nani Palkhivala Memorial                                                                          Research Paper Competition

• Each article can be authored by a maximum of two students.
• Entries must be in English only.
• Participants must register by sending a mail to [email protected] on or before September 15, 2023.
• Participants must also submit a short bio-data mentioning their full name, photograph, membership in the professional organisation, contact number, email and postal address.
• The professional must be below the age of 35 as on September 15, 2023 .
• The research article must comprise not less than 7,500 words and not more than 10,000 words including footnotes.
• The research paper should be typed on A4 size paper; font size of the body of the text must be 12, font type: Times New Roman, 1.5 Spacing and one-inch margins on each side.
• Citing and referencing should be as per OSCOLA 4 th Edition
• There should be appropriate footnotes indicating the correct source of information. The footnotes may be typed in font size 9, Font type: Times New Roman, Single Spacing. However, two separate footnotes must be double-spaced.
• A bibliography, mentioning all the articles, books, references, websites etc referred to, should be made at the end.
• Plagiarism will not be tolerated.
• Participants must email a copy of their entry as a Read-Only MS Word document to [email protected].
• Copyrights of all authors are respected, but neither the AIFTP, ITAT Bar Association, The Goods and Service Tax Practitioners Association of Maharashtra (GSTPAM) nor Maharashtra National Law University Mumbai will be responsible for any infringement of the same.
• Each entry shall be enclosed with a cover letter.
• Entries must reach the above-mentioned address on or before October 06, 2023 by 5:00 p.m. IST.
• The organisers will not be responsible for any loss or non-delivery of the entries.
• Each article will be marked with a total of 100 marks.
• The following are the criteria for marking and the marks allocated to each category:
• The decision of the judges shall be final.
• A Certificate of Merit and a cash prize shall be awarded to each of the three best research papers.
• The cash prize awarded shall be as follows:

First prize               Rs. 10,000/-

Second prize           Rs. 7,500/-

Third prize              Rs. 5,000/-

• The Best Articles will be published in the Souvenir which will be released on the occasion of the 13 th Nani A. Palkhivala Memorial National Tax Moot Court Competition.
• The Best articles will also be published along with a photograph of the participants in the AIFTP Journal, GSTPAM and on the website (www.itatonline.org)
• All winners shall be declared at the valedictory ceremony.
• For the purpose of this competition, each article shall be the original work of the participant/s. any article found to be a copied work from any other original work would be disqualified.
• The article should not have been submitted to any other competition and/or should not have been published earlier.
• All entries shall be deemed to be the property of the association which reserves the right of publication of the same.
• If there arises any situation that is not contemplated in the Rules, the organizer’s decision on the same shall be final.
• The organisers reserve the right to vary, alter, modify or repeal any of the above rules if so required and as they deem appropriate.
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Announcing the NeurIPS 2023 Paper Awards 

Communications Chairs 2023 2023 Conference awards , neurips2023

By Amir Globerson, Kate Saenko, Moritz Hardt, Sergey Levine and Comms Chair, Sahra Ghalebikesabi 

We are honored to announce the award-winning papers for NeurIPS 2023! This year’s prestigious awards consist of the Test of Time Award plus two Outstanding Paper Awards in each of these three categories: 

• Two Outstanding Main Track Papers 
• Two Outstanding Main Track Runner-Ups 
• Two Outstanding Datasets and Benchmark Track Papers  

This year’s organizers received a record number of paper submissions. Of the 13,300 submitted papers that were reviewed by 968 Area Chairs, 98 senior area chairs, and 396 Ethics reviewers 3,540  were accepted after 502 papers were flagged for ethics reviews . 

We thank the awards committee for the main track: Yoav Artzi, Chelsea Finn, Ludwig Schmidt, Ricardo Silva, Isabel Valera, and Mengdi Wang. For the Datasets and Benchmarks track, we thank Sergio Escalera, Isabelle Guyon, Neil Lawrence, Dina Machuve, Olga Russakovsky, Hugo Jair Escalante, Deepti Ghadiyaram, and Serena Yeung. Conflicts of interest were taken into account in the decision process.

Congratulations to all the authors! See Posters Sessions Tue-Thur in Great Hall & B1-B2 (level 1).

Outstanding Main Track Papers

Privacy Auditing with One (1) Training Run Authors: Thomas Steinke · Milad Nasr · Matthew Jagielski

Poster session 2: Tue 12 Dec 5:15 p.m. — 7:15 p.m. CST, #1523

Oral: Tue 12 Dec 3:40 p.m. — 4:40 p.m. CST, Room R06-R09 (level 2)

Abstract: We propose a scheme for auditing differentially private machine learning systems with a single training run. This exploits the parallelism of being able to add or remove multiple training examples independently. We analyze this using the connection between differential privacy and statistical generalization, which avoids the cost of group privacy. Our auditing scheme requires minimal assumptions about the algorithm and can be applied in the black-box or white-box setting. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our framework by applying it to DP-SGD, where we can achieve meaningful empirical privacy lower bounds by training only one model. In contrast, standard methods would require training hundreds of models.

Are Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models a Mirage? Authors: Rylan Schaeffer · Brando Miranda · Sanmi Koyejo

Poster session 6: Thu 14 Dec 5:00 p.m. — 7:00 p.m. CST, #1108

Oral: Thu 14 Dec 3:20 p.m. — 3:35 p.m. CST, Hall C2 (level 1) 

Abstract: Recent work claims that large language models display emergent abilities, abilities not present in smaller-scale models that are present in larger-scale models. What makes emergent abilities intriguing is two-fold: their sharpness, transitioning seemingly instantaneously from not present to present, and their unpredictability , appearing at seemingly unforeseeable model scales. Here, we present an alternative explanation for emergent abilities: that for a particular task and model family, when analyzing fixed model outputs, emergent abilities appear due to the researcher’s choice of metric rather than due to fundamental changes in model behavior with scale. Specifically, nonlinear or discontinuous metrics produce apparent emergent abilities, whereas linear or continuous metrics produce smooth, continuous, predictable changes in model performance. We present our alternative explanation in a simple mathematical model, then test it in three complementary ways: we (1) make, test and confirm three predictions on the effect of metric choice using the InstructGPT/GPT-3 family on tasks with claimed emergent abilities, (2) make, test and confirm two predictions about metric choices in a meta-analysis of emergent abilities on BIG-Bench; and (3) show how to choose metrics to produce never-before-seen seemingly emergent abilities in multiple vision tasks across diverse deep networks. Via all three analyses, we provide evidence that alleged emergent abilities evaporate with different metrics or with better statistics, and may not be a fundamental property of scaling AI models.

Outstanding Main Track Runner-Ups

Scaling Data-Constrained Language Models Authors : Niklas Muennighoff · Alexander Rush · Boaz Barak · Teven Le Scao · Nouamane Tazi · Aleksandra Piktus · Sampo Pyysalo · Thomas Wolf · Colin Raffel

Poster session 2: Tue 12 Dec 5:15 p.m. — 7:15 p.m. CST, #813

Oral: Tue 12 Dec 3:40 p.m. — 4:40 p.m. CST, Hall C2 (level 1)  

Abstract : The current trend of scaling language models involves increasing both parameter count and training dataset size. Extrapolating this trend suggests that training dataset size may soon be limited by the amount of text data available on the internet. Motivated by this limit, we investigate scaling language models in data-constrained regimes. Specifically, we run a large set of experiments varying the extent of data repetition and compute budget, ranging up to 900 billion training tokens and 9 billion parameter models. We find that with constrained data for a fixed compute budget, training with up to 4 epochs of repeated data yields negligible changes to loss compared to having unique data. However, with more repetition, the value of adding compute eventually decays to zero. We propose and empirically validate a scaling law for compute optimality that accounts for the decreasing value of repeated tokens and excess parameters. Finally, we experiment with approaches mitigating data scarcity, including augmenting the training dataset with code data or removing commonly used filters. Models and datasets from our 400 training runs are freely available at https://github.com/huggingface/datablations .

Direct Preference Optimization: Your Language Model is Secretly a Reward Model Authors: Rafael Rafailov · Archit Sharma · Eric Mitchell · Christopher D Manning · Stefano Ermon · Chelsea Finn

Poster session 6: Thu 14 Dec 5:00 p.m. — 7:00 p.m. CST, #625

Oral: Thu 14 Dec 3:50 p.m. — 4:05 p.m. CST, Ballroom A-C (level 2)  

Abstract: While large-scale unsupervised language models (LMs) learn broad world knowledge and some reasoning skills, achieving precise control of their behavior is difficult due to the completely unsupervised nature of their training. Existing methods for gaining such steerability collect human labels of the relative quality of model generations and fine-tune the unsupervised LM to align with these preferences, often with reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF). However, RLHF is a complex and often unstable procedure, first fitting a reward model that reflects the human preferences, and then fine-tuning the large unsupervised LM using reinforcement learning to maximize this estimated reward without drifting too far from the original model. In this paper, we leverage a mapping between reward functions and optimal policies to show that this constrained reward maximization problem can be optimized exactly with a single stage of policy training, essentially solving a classification problem on the human preference data. The resulting algorithm, which we call Direct Preference Optimization (DPO), is stable, performant, and computationally lightweight, eliminating the need for fitting a reward model, sampling from the LM during fine-tuning, or performing significant hyperparameter tuning. Our experiments show that DPO can fine-tune LMs to align with human preferences as well as or better than existing methods. Notably, fine-tuning with DPO exceeds RLHF’s ability to control sentiment of generations and improves response quality in summarization and single-turn dialogue while being substantially simpler to implement and train.

Outstanding Datasets and Benchmarks Papers

In the dataset category : 

ClimSim: A large multi-scale dataset for hybrid physics-ML climate emulation

Authors:  Sungduk Yu · Walter Hannah · Liran Peng · Jerry Lin · Mohamed Aziz Bhouri · Ritwik Gupta · Björn Lütjens · Justus C. Will · Gunnar Behrens · Julius Busecke · Nora Loose · Charles Stern · Tom Beucler · Bryce Harrop · Benjamin Hillman · Andrea Jenney · Savannah L. Ferretti · Nana Liu · Animashree Anandkumar · Noah Brenowitz · Veronika Eyring · Nicholas Geneva · Pierre Gentine · Stephan Mandt · Jaideep Pathak · Akshay Subramaniam · Carl Vondrick · Rose Yu · Laure Zanna · Tian Zheng · Ryan Abernathey · Fiaz Ahmed · David Bader · Pierre Baldi · Elizabeth Barnes · Christopher Bretherton · Peter Caldwell · Wayne Chuang · Yilun Han · YU HUANG · Fernando Iglesias-Suarez · Sanket Jantre · Karthik Kashinath · Marat Khairoutdinov · Thorsten Kurth · Nicholas Lutsko · Po-Lun Ma · Griffin Mooers · J. David Neelin · David Randall · Sara Shamekh · Mark Taylor · Nathan Urban · Janni Yuval · Guang Zhang · Mike Pritchard

Poster session 4: Wed 13 Dec 5:00 p.m. — 7:00 p.m. CST, #105 

Oral: Wed 13 Dec 3:45 p.m. — 4:00 p.m. CST, Ballroom A-C (level 2)

Abstract: Modern climate projections lack adequate spatial and temporal resolution due to computational constraints. A consequence is inaccurate and imprecise predictions of critical processes such as storms. Hybrid methods that combine physics with machine learning (ML) have introduced a new generation of higher fidelity climate simulators that can sidestep Moore’s Law by outsourcing compute-hungry, short, high-resolution simulations to ML emulators. However, this hybrid ML-physics simulation approach requires domain-specific treatment and has been inaccessible to ML experts because of lack of training data and relevant, easy-to-use workflows. We present ClimSim, the largest-ever dataset designed for hybrid ML-physics research. It comprises multi-scale climate simulations, developed by a consortium of climate scientists and ML researchers. It consists of 5.7 billion pairs of multivariate input and output vectors that isolate the influence of locally-nested, high-resolution, high-fidelity physics on a host climate simulator’s macro-scale physical state. The dataset is global in coverage, spans multiple years at high sampling frequency, and is designed such that resulting emulators are compatible with downstream coupling into operational climate simulators. We implement a range of deterministic and stochastic regression baselines to highlight the ML challenges and their scoring. The data (https://huggingface.co/datasets/LEAP/ClimSim_high-res) and code (https://leap-stc.github.io/ClimSim) are released openly to support the development of hybrid ML-physics and high-fidelity climate simulations for the benefit of science and society.   

In the benchmark category :

DecodingTrust: A Comprehensive Assessment of Trustworthiness in GPT Models

Authors: Boxin Wang · Weixin Chen · Hengzhi Pei · Chulin Xie · Mintong Kang · Chenhui Zhang · Chejian Xu · Zidi Xiong · Ritik Dutta · Rylan Schaeffer · Sang Truong · Simran Arora · Mantas Mazeika · Dan Hendrycks · Zinan Lin · Yu Cheng · Sanmi Koyejo · Dawn Song · Bo Li

Poster session 1: Tue 12 Dec 10:45 a.m. — 12:45 p.m. CST, #1618  

Oral: Tue 12 Dec 10:30 a.m. — 10:45 a.m. CST, Ballroom A-C (Level 2)

Abstract: Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) models have exhibited exciting progress in capabilities, capturing the interest of practitioners and the public alike. Yet, while the literature on the trustworthiness of GPT models remains limited, practitioners have proposed employing capable GPT models for sensitive applications to healthcare and finance – where mistakes can be costly. To this end, this work proposes a comprehensive trustworthiness evaluation for large language models with a focus on GPT-4 and GPT-3.5, considering diverse perspectives – including toxicity, stereotype bias, adversarial robustness, out-of-distribution robustness, robustness on adversarial demonstrations, privacy, machine ethics, and fairness. Based on our evaluations, we discover previously unpublished vulnerabilities to trustworthiness threats. For instance, we find that GPT models can be easily misled to generate toxic and biased outputs and leak private information in both training data and conversation history. We also find that although GPT-4 is usually more trustworthy than GPT-3.5 on standard benchmarks, GPT-4 is more vulnerable given jailbreaking system or user prompts, potentially due to the reason that GPT-4 follows the (misleading) instructions more precisely. Our work illustrates a comprehensive trustworthiness evaluation of GPT models and sheds light on the trustworthiness gaps. Our benchmark is publicly available at https://decodingtrust.github.io/.

Test of Time

This year, following the usual practice, we chose a NeurIPS paper from 10 years ago to receive the Test of Time Award, and “ Distributed Representations of Words and Phrases and their Compositionality ” by Tomas Mikolov, Ilya Sutskever, Kai Chen, Greg Corrado, and Jeffrey Dean, won. 

Published at NeurIPS 2013 and cited over 40,000 times, the work introduced the seminal word embedding technique word2vec. Demonstrating the power of learning from large amounts of unstructured text, the work catalyzed progress that marked the beginning of a new era in natural language processing.

Greg Corrado and Jeffrey Dean will be giving a talk about this work and related research on Tuesday, 12 Dec at 3:05 – 3:25 pm CST in Hall F.  

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