ACP Early Career Researcher Award Nomination

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The Executive Committee of the ACP invites nominations for the 2023 ACP Early Career Researcher in Constraint Programming Award.

The purpose of this award is to recognize early career researchers with a scientific track record that shows great promise in the area of Constraint Programming. The award, in the form of a certificate, will be presented at the CP 2023 conference, where the winning researcher will be invited to give a plenary talk. The award includes a cash prize of 500 euros, plus free registration for the conference.

For the list of previous awardees, see: https://www.a4cp.org/awards/early-career-research-award

The award was established in 2021 after a proposal by Prof. Eugene Freuder to the ACP. Prof. Freuder has provided seed funding for the award by the donation of the monetary portion of his 2020 IJCAI Research Excellence Award to the ACP.

NOMINATION PROCESS

Nominations are led by a nominator, typically somebody who knows the nominee (the candidate for the award) very well. The nominator submits a nomination (this form), and arranges for 3 referees that write a supporting reference letter (in a separate form).

Either the nominator or one of the referees has to be a direct collaborator, ideally a past main PhD supervisor. The other referees are members of the CP community who have never had a direct personal or professional relationship with the nominee, but who can speak with authority about the nominee's work. Reference letters will not be shown to the nominee nor the candidate.

The nominator is to submit this form and also assemble a collection of reference letter writers, who submit their reference letters separately, as prescribed in the links below.

ELIGIBILITY

Researchers are eligible for nomination if they have completed their PhD at least 2 years and at most 8 years before the year of the award. For 2023, this means between 1 January 2015 and up to 31 December 2020.

The nominator, nominee and referees must all be active ACP members, that is, having registered at http://www.a4cp.org/.

One referee has to be the former PhD supervisor or direct collaborator of the nominee, the others can not have a conflict of interest with the nominee; meaning they have not been the PhD supervisor or student of the nominee, and in the past 6 years they have not published together nor worked at the same institution.

TIMEFRAME

The strict deadline to receive the full nomination package is: 10 June 2023.

The nomination package includes this nomination form + 3 reference letters in the reference form: https://forms.gle/u7PhJRWoK4AjJzCy8

AWARD COMMITTEE

An award committee will be set up by the secretary of the ACP. The composition of the committee will be based on the nominations received such that there is no conflict of interest with the nominees. Members of the award committee cannot be candidates, nor can they support a candidate by being a nominator or a referee.

The selection of the winning nominee is based on the originality, impact, and quality of the research work. The evaluation will consider all contributions to the CP community, including publications, software, systems, applications, and other community building and research communication efforts.

For questions concerning award nominations and references, please contact the ACP EC Secretary at tias.guns@kuleuven.be.

Nominator (you): name and affiliation
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Nominator: email
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Nominator: link to ORCid, DBLP or Google Scholar profile
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Nominator: confirm that you are an ACP member (e.g. registered on http://www.a4cp.org/)
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Yes

Nominee (candidate): name and affiliation
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Nominee: email
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Nominee: link to ORCid, DBLP or Google Scholar profile *

Nominee: is the nominee an ACP member?
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Yes

I don't know, but surely willing to become one if not

Nominee: Highest degree received, field, institution, year
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Nominee: Record of professional experience (list of principal positions held and dates)
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Nominee: Professional recognitions (honors, awards, prizes, if any)

Nominee: contributions of record (list 2-5 significant publications, patents or other contributions)
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Name and affiliation of 3 referees (including one supervisor/direct collaborator) that will submit a reference letter.

Note that it is your responsibility as nominator to ensure that the referees are eligible and that they submit their reference letters before the deadline, at: https://forms.gle/u7PhJRWoK4AjJzCy8

Your nomination letter (show evidence that the nominee has a promising scientific track record that already has impact on the CP community. Emphasize what the nominee has done and why it matters). Max 500 words.

Based on this letter, the award committee will discuss the following matters to decide the award:

- Which specific accomplishments made by the nominee merit the award?
- If some of these involved a team effort, what specifically were the nominee's contributions?
- What impact has the contributions of the nominee had on other fields (AI, OR, computer science, etc.), or on society?

- Where does the nominee stand in comparison to other scientists of similar seniority in the field of CP?

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