IEEE TCDE Awards

The IEEE TCDE (Technical Committee of Data Engineering) has established the following four awards. The goal of these highly prestigious awards is to encourage innovative long term contributions to the field of data engineering. These awards are managed by the TCDE Awards Committee.

IEEE TCDE Rising Star Award (formerly, the IEEE TCDE Early Career Award)
IEEE TCDE Impact Award (formerly, IEEE TCDE CSEE Impact Award)
IEEE TCDE Ramez Elmasri Outstanding Database Education Award (formerly IEEE TCDE Education Award)
IEEE TCDE Service Award

Past award recipients (2014-present) can be found here.

Deadline: February 7, 2025

IEEE TCDE Rising Star Award

This award is based on an individual's whole body of work in the first five years after the PhD. The award aims to promote current database researchers as they create their career.

Eligibility

Eligibility: To be eligible for the 2025 IEEE TCDE Rising Star Award, the candidate should have completed all the requirements for the PhD no earlier than December 31, 2019. Parental leaves will move the date by the duration of the parental leave. The candidate can be anyone except the current officers of IEEE TCDE and members of the IEEE TCDE Awards Committee.

Nomination Process

Anyone in the field can nominate one person (self-nominations are excluded). Nominations should include a proposed citation (up to 25 words) and a detailed statement to justify the nomination (500 words or less). Three supporting letters should be submitted. Both the nomination and the letters need to address the significance of the contributions in the first five years after the PhD cited in the nomination. Recipients of other major database awards are eligible if the TCDE nomination is for different contributions. Nominations must be received by February 7, 2025 to be considered for this year's award. Please include a detailed CV for the nominee in the nomination. Nominations that did not result in an award can be resubmitted or updated in subsequent years as long as the eligibility conditions for the award still hold. The Awards Committee will evaluate all nominations and decide on zero or more winners. The award consists of a recognition plaque.

IEEE TCDE Impact Award

This award recognizes database researchers whose research contributed to expanding the data engineering field in one of the following ways:

Interdisciplinary. Impact beyond the data engineering field.
Practice. Impact beyond research to industrial practice.
Expansion. Impact resulting in expansion of the data engineering field itself.

Eligibility

The candidate(s) can be anyone except the current officers of IEEE TCDE and members of the IEEE TCDE Awards Committee.

Nomination Process

Anyone in the field can put forward a nomination (self-nominations are excluded). Nominations should include a proposed citation (up to 25 words) and a detailed statement to justify the nomination (500 words or less). The nomination should explicitly indicate the specific nature of the impact (expanding data engineering through interdisciplinary work, through impact on practice, or by expanding the data engineering field itself). Three supporting letters should be submitted. The letters need to address the significance of the contributions cited in the nomination. Recipients of other major database awards are eligible if the TCDE nomination is for different contributions. The nomination and letters should describe the difference and the impact of the new contributions, emphasizing how they expand the data engineering field. Nominations must be received by February 7, 2025 to be considered for this year's award. Please include a detailed CV for the nominee in the nomination. Nominations that did not result in an award can be resubmitted or updated in subsequent years. The Awards Committee will evaluate all nominations and decide on zero or more winners. The award consists of a recognition plaque.

IEEE TCDE Ramez Elmasri Outstanding Database Education Award

This is a newly established award that honors the memory of the late Professor Ramez Elmasri, one of the pioneers in the database field whose textbooks have been influential in educating millions across the globe. This award is given to individual(s) or organizations for outstanding contributions to the education and learning of the data engineering and information processing field, sustained through tangible and visible achievement(s), such as influential and widely used learning and teaching instruments including textbooks, online courses, MOOCS, and creative educational software platforms, among others. The award consists of one US$2,000 honorarium (to be equally split if there are multiple recipients), and a recognition plaque.

Eligibility

The candidate(s) can be anyone who is both IEEE and Computer Society member, except the current officers of IEEE TCDE, members of the IEEE Computer Society Board of Governors, and IEEE TCDE Awards Committee. Individuals, instructional groups, or organizations are eligible for nomination.

Nomination Process

Anyone in the field can put forward a nomination (self-nominations are excluded). Nominations should include a proposed citation (up to 25 words) and a detailed statement to justify the nomination (500 words or less). Three supporting letters should be submitted. The letters need to address the significance of the contributions to education cited in the nomination. Recipients of other major database awards are eligible if the TCDE nomination is for different contributions. Past awardees cannot be nominated again. Nominations must be received by February 7, 2025, to be considered for this year's award. Please include a detailed CV for the nominee in the nomination. Nominations that did not result in an award can be resubmitted or updated in subsequent years. The Awards Committee will evaluate all nominations and decide on zero or more winners (maximum 5).

IEEE TCDE Service Award

This award recognizes an individual who has contributed significantly to ICDE, TCDE, and the data engineering community in general.

Eligibility

The candidate can be anyone except the current officers of IEEE TCDE and members of the IEEE TCDE Awards Committee.

Nomination Process

Anyone in the field can put forward a nomination (self-nominations are excluded). Nominations should include a proposed citation (up to 25 words) and a detailed statement to justify the nomination (500 words or less). Three supporting letters should be submitted. The letters need to address the significance of the service contributions cited in the nomination. Recipients of other major database awards are eligible if the TCDE nomination is for different contributions. Nominations must be received by February 7, 2025 to be considered for this year's award. Please include a detailed CV for the nominee in the nomination. Nominations that did not result in an award can be resubmitted or updated in subsequent years. The Awards Committee will evaluate all nominations and decide on zero or more winners. The award consists of a recognition plaque.

Nomination Process for All Awards

All nominations should be sent to the IEEE TCDE Awards Committee Chair, Elena Ferrari before the deadline (Feb 7 2025, midnight US Pacific Time, with subject "IEEE TCDE Award Nomination". In case of any questions, please send an e-mail to the IEEE TCDE Awards Committee Chair, Elena Ferrari with the subject including the words "IEEE TCDE Award".

Conflicts of Interest Policy (COI Policy)

The committee members are aware of the candidate names before given access to the nominations and declare conflicts of interest to the chair.
If the number of conflicts is too high to make an informed decision, the chair summons other members of the community as ad-hoc committee members.
The chair gives access to the candidate nominations and discusses candidates only with non-conflicted members.
If the chair is conflicted with a candidate, the chair asks another committee member to serve as co-chair and handle the candidate's nomination. Then the chair and co-chair merge the results from the evaluations and discussions.

A COI is defined as follows: