PhD Symposium – Call for Contributions

The MIDS 2019 PhD Symposium aims to improve the research of PhD students and broaden their perspectives by giving them the opportunity to share and develop their research ideas in a supportive environment, get feedback from senior members of the AI / Data Science community, improve their communication skills, exchange ideas, and build relationships with other international AI - data science PhD students. This event will bring together PhD students working on topics related to the MIDS field. The goal is to provide a forum for PhD students to present ongoing research in a collaborative environment and share ideas with other young researchers in an international atmosphere.

Due to time space, only selected contributions will be presented in the session where participants will discuss their research ideas and results, and receive constructive feedback from an audience consisting of their peers as well as more senior experts in the field. In addition some students will be invited to participate in poster sessions so that they also receive comments of other participants of the workshop.

PhD students carrying out research in MIDS theme are invited to submit a paper to the PhD Symposium, to be reviewed by the program committee members. We particularly encourage submissions from students who are at the last stages of their doctoral work, but with sufficient time prior to completing their dissertation, and from those who are in the beginning stages, but have a specific research proposal, who can obtain valuable feedback about their research plans.

The criteria used for accepting a presentation include potential quality of the research, contribution of the work to the field of MIDS, originality of the work, and overall quality of paper.

Submission Instructions
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Length: Submissions must not be more than 1 page in IEEE two column format. Please include the following.

* authors’ names (Ph.D. student needs to be the first author);
* affiliation;
* the name of the student’s PhD supervisor(s);
* the problem(s) that the proposed research is going to solve and the motivation for solving them;
* related work: current approaches to solve this problem;
* the aims and objectives of the proposed research;
* the research methodology to be used to achieve the research goals, including a brief description of the work done to date and a tentative plan for future work;
* the main contribution(s) of the research to MIDS.

Please submit the abstracts (not more than 1 A4 page) to Dr. Sanju Tiwari <tiwarisanju18@ieee.org>. Accepted abstracts will be given 10 minutes for presentation and further discussion / feedback from the technical panel.

Important dates:
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* Paper submission: May 05, 2019
* Paper notification: May 10, 2019