Student Research CompetitionICFP 2023

About

The ACM Student Research Competition (SRC) will take place again this year at ICFP, providing undergraduate and graduate researchers an opportunity to present their original research. The goal is to give students a place to discuss their research with experts in their field and to help them sharpen their research and communication skills.

Following SRC guidelines, the ICFP 2023 SRC consists of three rounds:

Round 1: Extended Abstracts. All students are encouraged to submit a 3-page extended abstract outlining their research. See the Call for Submissions for more details.

Round 2: Presentations at ICFP. Based on the abstracts, a panel of judges will select the most promising entrants to participate in the oral presentation session at ICFP. The presentations will serve as a teaser for the poster session.

Round 3: Poster Session at ICFP. In the poster session, students will have the opportunity to interact and present their work to ICFP attendees and the judges, who will select three prize winners in each category (graduate/undergraduate). The 1st prize winners will advance to the ACM SRC Grand Finals.

Eligibility

The SRC is open to both undergraduate and graduate students. Upon submission, entrants must be enrolled as a student at their universities and be current ACM student members.

Furthermore, there are some constraints on what kind of work may be submitted:

Previously published work: Submissions should consist of original work (not yet accepted for publication). If the work is a continuation of previously published work, the submission should focus on the contribution over what has already been published. We encourage students to see this as an opportunity to get early feedback and exposure for the work they plan to submit to the next ICFP.

Collaborative work: Graduate students are encouraged to submit work they have been conducting in collaboration with others, including advisors, internship mentors, or other students. However, graduate submissions are individual, so they must focus on the contributions of the student.

Team submissions: Team projects will be only accepted from undergrads. One person should be designated by the team to make the oral presentation. If a graduate (Masters or PhD program) student is part of a group research project and wishes to participate in an SRC, they can submit and present their individual contribution to the group research project.

Outcomes and SRC Grand Finalists

The top three graduate and the top three undergraduate winners will receive prizes of $500, $300, and $200, respectively.

All six winners will receive award medals and a one-year complimentary ACM student membership, including a subscription to ACM’s Digital Library.

The first place winners of the SRC will be invited to participate in the ACM SRC Grand Finals, an on-line round of competitions among the winners of other conference-hosted SRCs.

The top three Grand Finalists will receive an additional $500, $300, and $200. All Grand Finalists will receive Grand Finalist certificates.

Accepted Posters

Call for Submissions

ICFP invites students to participate in the Student Research Competition in order to present their research and get feedback from prominent members of the programming language research community. Please submit your extended abstracts through the submission website.

Each submission (referred to as “abstract” below) should include the student author’s name and e-mail address; institutional affiliation; research advisor’s name; ACM student member number; category (undergraduate or graduate); research title; and an extended abstract addressing the following:

Problem and Motivation: Clearly state the problem being addressed and explain the reasons for seeking a solution to this problem.

Background and Related Work: Describe the specialized (but pertinent) background necessary to appreciate the work in the context of ICFP areas of interest. Include references to the literature where appropriate, and briefly explain where your work departs from that done by others.

Approach and Uniqueness: Describe your approach in addressing the problem and clearly state how your approach is novel.

Results and Contributions: Clearly show how the results of your work contribute to programming language design and implementation in particular and to computer science in general; explain the significance of those results.

Submissions must be original research that is not already published at ICFP or another conference or journal. One of the goals of the SRC is to give students feedback on ongoing, unpublished work. Furthermore, the abstract must be authored solely by the student. If the work is collaborative with others and*or part of a larger group project, the abstract should make clear what the student’s role was and should focus on that portion of the work.

Formatting: Submissions must be in PDF format, printable in black and white on US Letter sized paper, and interpretable by common PDF tools. All submissions must adhere to the “ACM Small” template that is available (in both LaTeX and Word formats) from https://www.acm.org/publications/authors/submissions. For authors using LaTeX, a lighter-weight package, including only the essential files, is available from http://sigplan.org/Resources/Author/#acmart-format. The submission must not exceed 3 pages in PDF format. Reference lists do not count towards the 3-page limit. You may use the “nonacm” option to remove venue information, DOI, categories, and copyright notices, since we will not publish the abstracts in a proceedings.