Call for ACML 2025 Distinguished Contribution Award Nominations

Important DatesPermalink

  • 8 June 2025 Nominations Due

  • 30 June 2025 Recommendation from the ACML Award Committee to the Steering Committee (SC)

  • 15 July 2025 Awardee Notification (if approved by SC

Deadlines are 23:59 AOE (Anywhere on Earth) for all dates.

The ACML Steering Committee (SC) decided to establish the ACML Distinguished Contribution Award in 2018. More details about the policy can be seen here.

The AwardPermalink

The awardee will be invited to attend that year's conference and give a 10-minute talk (not necessarily technical) at the banquet, Taipei, Taiwan. They will also receive travel support, an award, and a plaque (with their name carved). If the awardee cannot attend the banquet for compelling reasons, the talk will be given at the main conference.

EligibilityPermalink

  1. Steering Committee voting members cannot be nominated for the award.
  2. The awardee must have a 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
  3. The above are just examples. 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.

NominationsPermalink

  • 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: htlin@csie.ntu.edu.tw by June 8, 2025.

ProcedurePermalink

  1. The SC has appointed an award committee consisting of 3 people (see below) in the SC meeting for the 2025 award.
  2. Each year, there will be at most one awardee, who must have contributed significantly to promoting machine learning in the geo-regions covered by ACML, in research and service.
  3. The award committee makes a recommendation with citation to the SC, before June 30, 2025.
  4. The SC will vote to approve or disapprove the recommendation. If approved, the SC chair will send notification to the awardee by July 15, 2025. If disapproved, the SC will not present the award this year.

2025 Award CommitteePermalink

  • Vineeth N Balasubramanian, Indian Institute of Technology, India
  • Hsuan-Tien Lin, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
  • Sinno Pan, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong