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Call For Paper                            PhD Symposium            The 41st IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE)                          Hong Kong SAR, China                            19-23 May, 2025

https://ieee-icde.org/2025/call-for-phd-symposium-submissions/

Submission deadline: February 8, 2025

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Call for PhD Symposium Submissions ================================== The ICDE 2025 Ph.D. Symposium provides a forum for Ph.D. students to present their research ideas and interact with and receive feedback from senior members of the research community in academia and industry. The focus of the Symposium is to provide mentorship and constructive feedback to the students. The Symposium fosters a collaborative environment, encouraging constructive discussions and sharing of ideas. Submissions are encouraged from students who have not yet received their Ph.D. degrees. Submissions from students in the early stages of their research should provide a clear statement of the problem being addressed and a clear outline of the planned methodology. Submissions from students who are farther into their research should clearly state the contributions made so far and the work lying ahead.

Important Dates =============== Submission deadline: February 8, 2025 Notification of acceptance: March 8, 2025 Camera-ready copy due: March 25, 2025 Symposium date: One of days in the conference period (19-23 May, 2025)

Submission Guidelines ===================== - Must be single-authored by the student. - Must specify the student’s name as the sole, primary author. - Must provide the expected Ph.D. graduation date, in parenthesis next to the name. - Must specify the name of the supervisor(s), marked as “Supervised by”, under the author’s name. - The manuscripts should contain the statement of the problem being addressed, an outline of the planned methodology, contributions made so far, and the work lying ahead. - Ph.D. Symposium papers must not exceed 5 (five) pages, including the bibliography. The five-page manuscripts must be prepared following the submission guidelines for them to be included in the IEEE proceedings and follow the IEEE format (https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.htm...). - Manuscripts must be submitted to the Ph.D. Symposium Track of the ICDE 2025 submission website (https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/ICDEPhDSym2025)

After Acceptance ================ Accepted papers will be published by IEEE as an ICDE workshop and will be indexed by DBLP and IEEE Xplore. Students with accepted papers will be required to make a brief presentation, as well as prepare and present a poster during the poster presentation event of the main conference.

Ph.D. Symposium Chairs ====================== Raymond Wong, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, China Xiao Huang, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, China Jiajie Xu, Soochow University, China