Dear all, [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] As a friendly reminder, please nominate qualified candidates for the 2020 IEEE Technical Committee on Cloud Computing (TCCLD) awards listed below by 2020-10-20. Please also help with distributing the call for nominations.

- *TCCLD Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Award. *

TCCLD Outstanding Ph.D. thesis award is presented to a researcher whose Ph.D. thesis has the potential of a very high impact in cloud computing or gives direct evidence of such an impact. Only a Ph.D. degree obtained in 2019/2020 is considered for this award.

*Chair*: Prof. Xiaochun Cheng https://www.mdx.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/staff-directory/profile/cheng-xiaochun. Email: x.cheng@mdx.ac.uk

- *TCCLD Rising Star Award (within 5 years of receiving Ph.D degree)*

It recognizes outstanding young scientists and engineers who have demonstrated exceptional capabilities and made a significant contribution to the field of cloud computing. Only candidates who receive their Ph.D. within 5 years are eligible.

*Chair:* Prof. Ling Liu. Email: ling.liu@cc.gatech.edu

- *TCCLD Research Innovation Award.*

Anyone or one group of collaborators whose outstanding technical innovations are in the field of cloud computing. The contributors must have a long-term impact on advancing the theory and practice in cloud computing.

*Chair:* Prof. Yo-Ping Huang Email: yphuang@ntut.edu.tw

- *TCCLD Outstanding Leadership Award*

This award recognizes one individual for her/his outstanding leadership contributions in the field of cloud computing. Also, the outstanding contributions in the application of cloud computing which affect and improve global business and help organizations and individuals are considered.

*Chair:* Prof. Beniamino Di Martino. Email: beniamino.dimartino@unicampania.it

- *TCCLD Outstanding Service Award*

This award recognizes one individual who has outstanding services to building the cloud computing community with significant and persistent volunteer efforts, such as services to IEEE TCCLD activities worldwide, annual related events.

*Chair*: Martin Gilje Jaatun. Email: martin.g.jaatun@sintef.no

- *TCCLD Women in Cloud Computing Award*

It recognizes women leaders who have made outstanding, influential, and potentially long-lasting contributions in the field of cloud computing and solve real problems.

*Chair*: Prof. YuanYuan Yang. Email: yuanyuan.yang@stonybrook.edu

- *TCCLD Impact Award*

It recognizes senior researchers or educators for her/his significant/distinguished contribution in the field of cloud computing.

*Chair*: Prof. Christophe Cérin. Email: c.cerin@computer.org. *Details on the awards and the nomination process are available at * https://tc.computer.org/tccld/awards/ .

*Eligible applicants*

1. The TCCLD members. Join TCCLD Now https://www.ieee.org/membership-catalog/productdetail/showProductDetailPage.html?product=CMYCLD746 2. Qualified candidates except for the IEEE TCCLD chairs, TCCLD executive committee members, and the past IEEE TCCLD awardees. 3. Nominees that have not been recognized for the TCCLD award will be reviewed with higher priority. 4. In terms of the TCCLD Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Award, the Ph.D. degree should have been obtained in 2019/2020.

*Nomination Process* o Anyone in the field can nominate one person. Self-nominations are not accepted. o Nominations should include a proposed citation (up to 25 words), a detailed statement to justify the nomination (500 words or less), and personal/team web page URL of the nominee. o Two supporting letters are required for each nomination. The letters should address the significance of the contributions cited in the nomination. o Nominations that did not result in an award can be resubmitted or updated in subsequent years. o The Awards Committee will evaluate all nominations and decide on zero or more winners for each award category.

*Important Dates:*

- Oct. 20: Nomination due - Nov. 20: Selection results. (Internal) - Nov. 30: Announcement of Winners (Web & CloudCom 2020) CloudCom 2020 https://2020.cloudcom.org/

*Submission Link*

All nominations should be sent through the following link. All the files should be merged into one PDF file. The submission link is as follow.

* TCCLD Award Nomination https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfJ7k-ruXSTUUrjHdWlfRk0b6f10wILgHNPktufcM5PKnsR7A/viewform?vc=0&c=0&w=1&flr=0&usp=mail_form_link*

Note: If you require further information, feel free to contact ieeetccld@gmail.com ieeetccld@gmail.com

*Awards committee chairs*

- Prof. Xiaochun Cheng https://www.mdx.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/staff-directory/profile/cheng-xiaochun, Middlesex University, UK.* ( TCCLD Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Award Chair.) *

Email: x.cheng@mdx.ac.uk

- Prof. Yo-Ping Huang, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan.* (TCCLD Research Innovation Award Chair)*. - Email: yphuang@ntut.edu.tw - Prof. Christophe Cérin, University of Paris XIII, France. (TCCLD Impact Award Chair) - Email: c.cerin@computer.org - Prof. Beniamino Di Martino, Universita' della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy. *( TCCLD Outstanding Leadership Award Chair)* - Email: beniamino.dimartino@unicampania.it - Prof. Ling Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA. *(TCCLD Rising Star Award Chair) * - Email: ling.liu@cc.gatech.edu - Prof. YuanYuan Yang, Stony Brook University, USA. *(TCCLD Women in Cloud Computing Awar Chair) * - Email: yuanyuan.yang@stonybrook.edu - Martin Gilje Jaatun, SINTEF, Norway *(TCCLD Outstanding Service Award Chair) * - Email: martin.g.jaatun@sintef.no

Meanwhile, Awardees will be publicized through TCCLD social media channels as follow. I. Facebook: IEEE Cloud Computing ( https://www.facebook.com/ieeecloudcomputing/). II. Twitter: IEEE Cloud Computing (https://twitter.com/ieeecloud). ------------------------------

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