ACM SIGMICRO

Eligibility

A nominee must within six years of finishing their Ph.D. degree in the year which the award is made. At the discretion of the award committee, eligibility may be adjusted to account for documented career interruptions, including but not limited to family related (including parenting) leaves, medical leaves or military service. Questions of eligibility should be directed to the award committee chair in advance of nomination.

Winners of the IEEE TCCA Young Computer Architect Award are not eligible for the ACM SIGMICRO Early Career Award.

Members of the SIGMICRO Early Career Award Committee or SIGMICRO executive committee are not eligible for the award. The committee will follow the ACM Awards Committee Conflict of Interest (COI) guidelines.

Application Requirements

Nominations should be made in the form of an email addressed to the Chair of the Early Career Award Committee (Boris Grot; Boris.Grot@ed.ac.uk) with the subject 2025 SIGMICRO Early Career Award Nomination. Anyone can nominate a candidate, but self-nominations are not accepted. The nominator should solicit recommendations from colleagues in the field who are most familiar with the nominee's achievements. Copies of published work should not be sent.

The following materials are required for the nomination:

• Curriculum Vitae of nominee, including publications.
• A statement, of maximum two pages, documenting the nominee's research accomplishments.
• A letter from the nominator, of maximum one page, justifying the nomination, the significance of the work, and the nominee's role in the work.
• A maximum of 4 endorsement letters of recommendation from others which identify the rationale for the nomination and by what means the recommender knows of the nominee's work. We ask endorsers to refrain from endorsing multiple candidates in the same year; if an endorser feels that this is not possible, we ask that they provide an explicit ranking amongst the candidates they are endorsing either in the letters themselves or via a separate email to the committee chair. We ask nominators to categorically refrain from endorsing any other candidates than the one they are nominating in the same year.
• A concise statement of the achievement(s) for which the award is being sought.

The nominator is responsible for ensuring that all nomination materials reach the Early Career Award Committee Chair, by email, by the submission deadline. Nominations that arrive after the deadline will be held over to the following year for consideration. Nominations that did not result in an award can be resubmitted or updated in subsequent years.