Student Research Symposium

The symposium will feature student posters and provide students with other enriching experiences, such as workshops, industry exhibits, and demos. In 2024, SRS will comprise mentoring sessions, a special keynote speech, an expert panel discussion, and lightning talks. The Conference Reception and multiple Student Symposium Poster Exhibit sessions will allow students to interact with HPC researchers and practitioners (and recruiters) from academia and industry.

HiPC will provide limited travel support to one author of selected posters. Awards for Best Poster will be presented at the symposium. An online book containing the resumes of the students participating in the symposium will be compiled and made available to the sponsors of the HiPC 2024 conference to be held between Dec 18th and 21st in Bengaluru, India.

Papers are solicited in all areas of high-performance computing, data, and analytics, including but not limited to the topics mentioned in the HiPC Call for Papers.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Submissions open: Aug 26, 2024, AOE

Submission Deadline: Sep 30, 2024, AOE

Accept/Reject Decision Notification: Nov 8, 2024, AOE

Camera-ready Deadline for the Abstract of Accepted Posters: Nov 15, 2024, AOE 

ELIGIBILITY:

Submissions should have at least one student author during any part of the calendar year 2024. Submissions may have multiple student or non-student co-authors. Submissions must mark student authors with an asterisk (*). Student authors should also specify the degree they are pursuing.

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS:

In order to be considered for a poster at the Student Research Symposium, authors must submit papers not exceeding two (2) single-spaced double-column pages (including references) using 10-point size font on 8.5×11-inch pages, with 1” margins on all sides (IEEE conference style). The IEEE conference style templates for MS Word and LaTeX provided by IEEE eXpress Conference Publishing are available for download. See the latest versions here.

Papers are to be submitted online in PDF format through https://ssl.linklings.net/conferences/HiPC/.

During submission, it needs to be marked whether the lead author is an undergraduate (B.E./B.Tech.), a postgraduate (M.E./M.Tech.) or a Ph.D. student.

A signed letter from the academic advisor needs to be submitted which states that “the submitted work is original and the work is done by the student.”

The poster authors are encouraged to follow the following format for the two-page submission.

(1) Introduction (0.5 page): Answer the following in separate paragraphs.   

• Motivation. Clearly state the objective of the paper and motivate the specific problem your work is solving. 
• Limitation of the state-of-art approaches. Briefly review the most relevant and most recent prior works. Clearly articulate the limitations of  prior works and how your approach breaks away from those limitations.
• Key insights and contributions. Briefly articulate the major insights that enable your approach. Clearly specify the novelty of these insights and how they advance state-of-the-art.                                                                    
• Limitations of the proposed approach. Clearly articulate the limitations of the proposed approach and identify avenues of future work.

(2) Design (0.5 page): Explain the overall design of your work with a brief explanation of the major components. It is better to include a small figure.

(3) Evaluation (0.5 page): Explain the testbed and include the major experimental results with graphs (if applicable).

(4) Conclusion and Future Work (0.3 page): Derive major conclusions of your work and specify future directions of the research.

(5) References (0.2 page): 4-5 major references for the work cited in the paper.

HiPC 2023 Student Research Symposium proceedings can be found here.

Disclaimer: For people without IEEE access, some sample 2-page posters are provided below which were accepted in SC 2022/HiPC2023.

• https://sc22.supercomputing.org/proceedings/tech_poster/poster_files/rpost142s 3-file3.pdf
• https://sc22.supercomputing.org/proceedings/tech_poster/poster_files/rpost183s 3-file3.pdf
• https://indianinstituteofscience- my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/personal/konduriadi_iisc_ac_in/EaL- SiiequNIun8mYKWILDYBFfNG39AtGQhkEr1Dtxnw3g?e=c0Ac6e
• https://indianinstituteofscience- my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/personal/konduriadi_iisc_ac_in/Ec8nEhPCxZpKndX1elI RJ4YBILilOUgFF1gvfKr8vxPoEg?e=hHI9ub
• https://indianinstituteofscience- my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/personal/konduriadi_iisc_ac_in/Eb1uoKtioPBFn1k3Whz wCyQBEORPndYWDkCfAJ_MPTN2uA?e=cCaWnM

A two-page abstract of the selected posters will be published in the HiPC Workshop proceedings in IEEE Xplore. This will provide students with the flexibility to publish an extended version of their paper at other venues after benefiting from reviewer feedback. The papers are reviewed by at least three independent reviewers. Papers will be judged on technical merit, quality, relevance to the symposium, and related parameters. Plagiarism is prohibited in any form, especially verbatim reproduction from other published works. Plagiarized papers will be rejected, and the corresponding department and institution will be notified.

As per IEEE guidelines, the use of artificial intelligence (AI)–generated text in an article needs to be disclosed in the acknowledgements section of any submitted paper. The sections of the paper that use AI-generated text should have a citation to the AI system used to generate the text. For more information, please click here.

Facilities for displaying posters will be made available, and the exact specifications of the poster size will be provided later. At least one student author of each accepted paper must register and attend the conference to present their work. Papers with no- shows will be retroactively rejected.

TRAVEL SUPPORT:

HiPC will provide a limited travel scholarship to at least one student author of each accepted submission from an Indian university. There may be a small number of travel scholarships for international student authors. This scholarship will cover partial expenses for attending the conference. To get reimbursement of travel support, SRS organizers expect the selected students to attend the entire conference along with the SRS-specific activities. Further details on this scholarship and the application process will be provided later.

MENTORING SESSION:

Mentoring will be organized for the students selected for SRS, where the students will get an opportunity to meet senior researchers attending the HiPC conference. These mentoring sessions include a panel of experts providing their experiences in research and a lunch where a mentor will be matched with students. More mentoring opportunities are being planned for SRS students to get guidance in the world of R&D in high-performance computing.

SYMPOSIUM CO-CHAIRS:

Abhinandan S Prasad, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, India

Konduri Aditya, Indian Institute of Science, India

Contact: <student_symposium at hipc dot org> for more details.