2024 CISE Best Paper Competition

The Center for Information & Systems Engineering established the CISE Best Student Paper Award competition to promote student research and recognize the scientific quality of research being conducted by CISE students. The opportunity is open to all students currently enrolled at Boston University and advised by a CISE faculty affiliate.

Paper submissions will be evaluated through a blind review process conducted by both a student and a faculty review committee. The award winner and finalists will be selected based on the ratings and comments received from paper reviewers. The winner and finalists will be recognized at the 2024 CISE Best Student Paper Awards event on Friday, April 5th from 3pm-4pm at 665 Commonwealth Avenue, CDS 1101, followed by a reception with food and drinks from 4pm-6pm.

Register to attend, here.

 

Student Reviewers: Efe Sencan, Zili Wang, Prateek Jain, Zongshun Zhang, Arincheyan Gerald, Eric Wendel, and Feisi Fu

Finalists: Hoang Tran “Better SGD using Second-order Momentum” (NeurIPS 2022) (Advisor: Ashok Cutkosky), Jimuyang Zhang “Coaching a Teachable Student” (CVPR 2023) (Advisor: Eshed Ohn-Bar), Mohammad Hammas Saeed “TUBERAIDER: Attributing Coordinated Hate Attacks on YouTube Videos to their Source Communities” (ICWSM 2024) (Advisor: Gianluca Stringhini), Haoxing Tian “Convergence of Actor-Critic Methods with Multi-Layer Neural Networks” (NeurIPS 2023) (Advisors: Yannis Paschalidis & Alex Olshevsky).

Evaluation Criteria

  • Significance and Impact
  • Novelty
  • Technical Merit
  • Writing and Presentation
  • Relevance to CISE

Eligibility Criteria

  • The paper must represent original research conducted at Boston University primarily by the student.
  • While other authors may be listed on the paper, the student must be the lead student author (i.e., contributed the majority of the effort among all student co-authors) and must have contributed significantly to the paper (advisors will be asked to certify the student’s role and contribution).
  • The paper must have been published or accepted for publication at a journal or conference within the past 24 months from submission to this CFP. 
  • Papers posted solely on archive sites (e.g., arXiv, bioarXiv) and not published at peer reviewed venues are not acceptable for submission.
  • A full-length paper must be officially submitted via the web in pdf format.
  • Papers must include three key words.
  • Each student can only enter one paper in this competition.
  • If the student’s paper is selected as winner or finalists, the student must present the paper at the CISE Best Paper Presentation event on Friday, April 5th.  

Key Dates
Deadline for Paper Submissions: Monday, February 19th, 2024  (Midnight ET)
Decision Notifications to Authors: Friday, March 29th, 2024
CISE Student Best Paper Award Event: Friday, April 5th, 2024

Past Student Paper Award Winners
2022 Winners
2021 Winners
2020 Winners