Dear Colleague,

A call for nominations to IEEE Sweden VT-COM-IT Joint Chapter Best Student Conference Paper Award 2025:

Eligibility:

1. Papers published and presented within a window of one year between 1 January 2024 and 31 December 2024 in IEEE conferences, or IEEE technical co-sponsored events with a focus on communications systems and theory, information theory, networking, signal processing, and related areas are eligible for nomination.
2. At least the first author must be a student enrolled at a University in Sweden at the time of submission of the paper.
3. The student author(s) must have done the majority of the research efforts leading to the results reported in the paper, as well as the paper writing.
4. The nominated paper (see below for rules of nominations) must be presented at the Swe-CTW workshop (https://site.ieee.org/swe-ctw/) organized by the IEEE Sweden VT-COM-IT Joint Chapter on October 23-24, 2025 in Linköping.
5. At least one of the authors must attend the presentations of the other nominated papers.

Basis for judging:

Quality, originality, utility, timeliness, clarity of presentation, and potential impact.

Nominations:

The main supervisor(s) of the student(s), or a senior academic/researcher with a suitable background in the general area of the paper can nominate eligible papers for consideration. With a nomination the following should be included:

1. A statement detailing the relation between the nominator and the nominee(s);
2. Certification that the nominee(s) was (were) a student at a University in Sweden at the submission of the paper;
3. For a paper with multiple authors, a statement that clearly details:
   1. The career status of the remaining authors;
   2. That the majority of the research work and the paper writing were done by the first-author student (and other co-author students);
4. A brief description of the contribution of the paper;
5. The main motivation for nominating the paper.
6. A copy of the paper, or a link to where a copy of the paper can be downloaded.

Deadline for nominations:

Nominations should be submitted to the IEEE Sweden VT-COM-IT Joint Societies Chapter no later than June 2rd, 2025 via email to IEEE.SweCTW@gmail.com.

Selection process:

Nominations are screened and reduced to a short list by a review committee appointed by the IEEE Sweden VT-COM-IT Joint Societies Chapter. The list is submitted to the Awards Committee of the Chapter that makes the final decisions. If no nominated paper is considered to be of award-winning quality, a winner will not be selected.

The top-five nominated papers will be listed at https://site.ieee.org/sweden-vtcomit/best-student-paper-award/ in 2025 with the winner listed afterwards as well.

Best regards,

Michael Lentmaier

Chair, VT/COM/IT Sweden Chapter

and

Danyo Danev

Treasurer and Awards Activities, VT/COM/IT Sweden Chapter