2026 PAKDD Early Career Research Award Application (by "Dec 31, 2025 (23:59:59 PST)") ====================================================================================== Link: https://pakdd.org/awards.html#link3   Thanks to PAKDD Steering Committee, PAKDD will provide Early Career Research Award to an individual in the first 10 years after PhD. The award aims to promote young researchers in KDD fields when they create their career. It consists of a plaque (and potentially cash) to the awardee. The recipient will receive the award at the annual PAKDD Conference during the awards session.   For any questions, please contact the PAKDD Junior Award Selection Committee Chair, Raymond Wong (email: raywong@cse.ust.hk ). Eligibility =========== 1. Anyone in the field can nominate one person. Self-nominations are excluded. The nominator should obtain the endorsement from the nominee before nomination. 2. The nominee’s PhD should have been awarded no earlier than December 31st, current year – 11 years. For example, for the year 2026 awards, this means no earlier than 31st December 2015. 3. The nominee can be anyone except the current PAKDD Award Selection Committee. 4. The nominee must have published at least one full/long paper in PAKDD, and attended at least one PAKDD conference to present his/her results. Selection Criteria ==================   The application is evaluated based on the nominee's overall research contributions, leadership, and service in KDD fields since the awarding of the PhD. The awardee should commit to register for PAKDD 2026 and attend the PAKDD 2026 ceremony on-site to receive the award.   The Award Selection Committee will evaluate all nominations and decide on zero or more winners. Submission Details ==================    The nominator should send a single PDF file containing all the following documents by Dec 31, 2025 (23:59:59 PST) to the current PAKDD Award Selection Committee Chair, Raymond Wong (email: raywong@cse.ust.hk ). The email title is “PAKDD: Application of 2026 PAKDD Early Career Research Award”. In the email, please include the nominee in the CC list. 1. Statement including the following. Please use the given form at this link ( https://pakdd.org/Application_Forms/PAKDD%20Early%20Career%20Research%20Awar... )    a. Nominator Information       i.   Name       ii.  Email Address       iii. Affiliation       iv.  Homepage URL    b. Nominee Information       i.   Name       ii.  Email Address       iii. Affiliation       iv.  Homepage URL    c. Proposed Citation of Nominee (up to 25 words)    d. Detailed Statement to Justify the nomination (500 words or fewer) 2. Endorsement Letter (approximate 1 page) written by at least one SC (Steering Committee) member who is not the nominator. The letter should include detailed statement about the nominee’s overall research, leadership, and service contributions in KDD fields since the awarding of the PhD. 3. Certificate showing PhD degree awarding intuition and the time receiving the PhD degree   Only PDF files are accepted. No other file formats are accepted. Submissions violating the above guideline will be disregarded.   Notifications will be sent to the nominators and the nominees by Jan 25, 2026 (23:59:59 PST).   Nominations that did not result in an award in the current year can be re-submitted or updated in subsequent years as long as the eligibility conditions for the award still hold.