Call-for-Nominations: SPEC Kaivalya Dixit Distinguished Dissertation Award 2026

Friday, July 31, 2026 00:00

SPEC Kaivalya Dixit Distinguished Dissertation Award is open to dissertations that have been defended between October 2024 and September 2026.

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 International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE 2027).

SPEC Kaivalya Dixit Distinguished Dissertation Award is open to dissertations defended between October 2024 and September 2026; a thesis can be nominated only once, which means that a 2024 thesis nominated in 2025 cannot be nominated again in 2026.

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

More information is available here.