Call for Young Researchers’ Symposium Papers

The Young Researchers' Symposium at CODS-COMAD 2024 invites submissions from students and postdoctoral fellows. This is a unique opportunity for young researchers to have fruitful peer-to-peer discussions and to get feedback from leading senior researchers about their current research work. The YRS forum this year also includes a PhD clinic session (see below) where young researchers will be paired with senior mentors to enable personalized mentoring.

Submissions to the Young Researchers' Symposium (YRS) are in the form of a 2-page extended abstract, and are invited on the topics such as data systems, data science, machine learning, combining knowledge and data, data management and platforms, data-driven applications etc. We welcome many kinds of papers, such as, but not limited to: novel research papers, work-in-progress papers, appraisal papers of existing methods and tools (e.g., lessons learned).

The first author of any submission should be an undergraduate/postgraduate/Ph.D. student or a Postdoctoral researcher affiliated with any academic institution.

Authors of accepted papers will get a chance to present their work both as a poster and a quick lightning talk at the conference. The extended abstract will appear in the proceedings of the conference, which will be published in ACM Digital Library.

Please read the Dual submission, Plagiarism, and Conflict of Interest policies this page for submission instructions

Several technical awards are available for best paper, etc. Please see the Awards page for details.

Partial travel Grants will be available for domestic students whose papers are accepted.

Important Dates

All deadlines are Anywhere on Earth (AoE, UTC-1200)

~~Sep 15, 2023: Submission of papers~~
~~Oct 30, 2023: Notification of acceptance~~
~~Nov 30, 2023: Camera-ready version due~~

Submission Instructions

Please see this page for common submission instructions. The status of the first author (Undergraduate / Postgraduate / Doctoral / Postdoctoral) should be listed as a footnote on the first page.

Young Researchers' Symposium Track Chairs

Jana Doppa, Washington State University, USA
Ponnurangam Kumaraguru (PK), IIIT Hyderabad, India
For more details, please reach out to the track chairs at comadcods@gmail.com

Program Committee

Please see this page for program committee members.