Awards

Outstanding Leadership Award, Research Innovation Award, and Outstanding Service Award

The IEEE TCSVC Outstanding Leadership Award recognizes one individual for her/his outstanding leadership contributions to the services community and to the field of services computing, and his leadership and visionary contributions to society at large through promotion and applications of services computing concepts to improve global business management, enterprise computing and applications of services computing to a variety of science, engineering, and business domains.

The IEEE TCSVC Research Innovation Award recognizes one individual or one group of collaborators whose outstanding technical innovations in the field of services computing have had a lasting impact in advancing the theory and practice of the field. The contributions must have significantly influenced the direction of research and development of the field or transferred to practice in significant and innovative ways and/or enabled the development of commercial systems/products.

The IEEE TCSVC Outstanding Service Award recognizes one individual for her/his outstanding services to building the services computing community with significant and persistent volunteer efforts, such as services to IEEE TCSVC activities worldwide, annual World Congress on Services (SERVICES) events, and/or satellite services computing events of SERVICES in different regions of the world.

Annual call for nominations for the awards is due April 30th of the award year and is publicized through IEEES TCSVC social media channels. Award ceremony is held at the annual IEEE World Congress on Services, co-located with IEEE ICWS (Web-based Services), CLOUD, SCC (Services Computing), BigData Congress, AIMS (AI & Mobile Services), ICIOT (Internet of Things), ICCC (Cognitive Computing), EDGE (Edge Computing) and SERVICES.

Eligibility

  • Qualified candidates exclude current officers of IEEE TCSVC and members of the IEEE TCSVC Awards Committee.

Nomination Process

  • Anyone in the field can nominate one person. Self-nominations are not accepted.
  • Nominations should include a proposed citation (up to 25 words) and a detailed statement to justify the nomination (500 words or less).
  • Two supporting letters need be submitted upon request. The letters should address the significance of the contributions cited in the nomination with emphasis on the impact field(s).
  • Nominations should be sent to the IEEE TCSVC Awards Committee Chair, appointed by the IEEE TCSVC Chair.
  • 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.

Awards Committee Chair

  • Prof. Carl K. Chang, Iowa State University, USA. Email: chang AT iastate.edu

Past Awardees

  • IEEE TCSVC Outstanding Leadership Award
  • IEEE TCSVC Research Innovation Award
  • IEEE TCSVC Outstanding Service Award
    • [2017] Dr. Yan Wang, Macquarie University, Australia
    • [2016] Dr. Jia Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University – Silicon Valley, USA