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  2. BEST DOCTORAL DISSERTATION

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BEST DOCTORAL DISSERTATION AWARD

SPCOM 2020 Doctoral Dissertation Award Winners

2018-2019: Best Doctoral Dissertation Award
Konda Reddy Mopuri, IISc Bangalore
Title of the thesis: Deep Visual Representations: A Study on Augmentation, Visualization, and Robustness

2018-2019: Best Doctoral Dissertation Award -- Honorable Mention
Subhadip Mukherjee, IISc Bangalore
Title of the thesis: Sparsity Driven Solutions to Linear and Quadratic Inverse Problems

2019-2020: Best Doctoral Dissertation Award
Geethu Joseph, IISc Bangalore
Title of the thesis: Linear Dynamical Systems with Sparsity Constraints: Theory and Algorithms

2019-2020: Best Doctoral Dissertation Award -- Honorable Mention
Ekant Sharma, IIT Kanpur
Title of the thesis: Analysis and Optimization of Energy-Efficient Massive MIMO Wireless Relaying Systems

2019-2020: Best Doctoral Dissertation Award -- Honorable Mention
Rashmi Kamran, IIT Bombay
Title of the thesis: Polarization Multiplexed Carrier Based Self-homodyne Coherent Optical Links

Call for Nominations

SPCOM has always endeavored to promote a strong research culture among the students. As part of this effort, SPCOM 2020 has instituted the "Best Doctoral Dissertation Award" to identify and reward high-quality doctoral dissertations in the broad areas of interest to the conference

Students who have successfully defended their Ph.D. theses during June 1, 2018 -- June 15, 2020, both dates included, are eligible to be nominated for the award.
The nominator must be the Ph.D. advisor or the Head of the department or institute where the student carried out the research work.

Download the nomination form here (.docx/.pdf)

Instructions for submitting the nomination:

  1. Fill up the nomination document and print it to PDF
  2. The nomination package must be submitted as a single merged PDF file only containing the following in order.
    • PDF of the nomination document
    • PDF reprints of the top four papers (journal/conference publications)
    • PDF of the thesis
  3. The filename of the merged PDF file should be <Nominee’s First Name followed by the date of defense in ddmmyy format>.pdf. For example, if Mike is the first name of the nominee and the date of defense is July 23, 2019, the filename should be Mike230719. Individual PDFs, zip/rar attachments will not be accepted.
  4. Total attachment file size should not exceed 20 MB. Compress the PDF, if required, using online compression tools.
  5. The award winners, selected by an expert committee, will be asked to upload a 20-minute video highlighting their doctoral research.

The nominations may be sent to: spcom.awards@gmail.com

Deadline: June 20, 2020, 11.59 PM I.S.T.