ACML Distinguished Contribution Award
May 15, 2020 | Nominations due |
June 30, 2020 | Recommendation from ACML Award Commitee to Steering Committee (SC) |
July 15, 2020 | Awardee Notification (if approved by SC) |
The ACML Steering Committee (SC) decided to establish the ACML Distinguished Contribution Award from 2018. More details about the policy can be seen at http://www.acml-conf.org/award.
The Award
The awardee will be invited to attend the conference of that year and give a 10 minutes' talk (not necessarily technical) at the banquet. They will also receive travel support, an award and a plaque (with name carved).
Eligibility
Steering Committee voting members cannot be nominated for the award.
The awardee must have significant relationship with ACML, e.g.,
- steering committee, general chair, program chair, or
- 2+ times as area chair, other chairs, or
- 4+ times as program committee member, or
- 5+ papers published in ACML, or
- ...
These are just examples, and the significance is to be judged by the award committee.
This is a premium award of machine learning in the geographical scope of ACML, and thus, the nominee should be well-known within the ACML community.
Nomination
- Anyone can nominate a candidate for the award.
- Award nomination material: Note that the nominee should be well-known within the community. The nomination requires only: 1) the name and current affiliation of the nominee, and 2) at most one paragraph describing the relationship of the nominee with ACML.
- Please email award nominations to: 📮geoffrey.holmes@waikato.ac.nz by May 15, 2020.
Procedure
- The SC will appoint an award committee consisting of 3 people, in each year's SC meeting, for the award to be presented the following year.
- Each year there will be, at most one awardee, who must have contributed significantly to promote machine learning in the Geo-regions covered by ACML, in research and service.
- Award committee makes a recommendation with citation to the SC, before June 30, 2020.
- The SC will vote to approve or disapprove the recommendation: If approved, the SC chair will send notification to the awardee by July 15, 2020. If disapproved, the SC will not present the award this year.
2020 Award Committee: Geoff Holmes (Waikato University, New Zealand), Zhi-Hua Zhou (Nanjing University, China), Wee Sun Lee (NUS, Singapore).