Call-for-Nominations: SPEC Kaivalya Dixit Distinguished Dissertation Award 2024

Wednesday, June 19, 2024 00:00

SPEC Kaivalya Dixit Distinguished Dissertation Award is open to dissertations that have been defended between October 2022 and September 2024.

The SPEC Kaivalya Dixit Distinguished Dissertation Award aims to recognize outstanding doctoral dissertations in the field of computer benchmarking, performance evaluation, and experimental system analysis in general. Nominated dissertations will be evaluated in terms of scientific originality, scientific significance, practical relevance, impact, and quality of the presentation.

The award is accompanied by a prize of $1000 awarded at the ICPE 2025 International Conference on Performance Engineering.

SPEC Kaivalya Dixit Distinguished Dissertation Award is open to dissertations defended between October 2022 and September 2024; a thesis can be nominated only once, which means that a 2023 thesis nominated in 2024 cannot be nominated again in 2025.

Questions about the application process can be e-mailed to nominations at spec dot org.

More information is available here.