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ACM Special Interest Group
on Security, Audit and Control (SIGSAC)
SIGSAC Outstanding Early-Career Researcher Award
Call for Nominations
The award committee is soliciting nominations for the SIGSAC Outstanding
Early-Career Researcher Award.
Nomination deadline: September 4, 2026
Submission: nominations should be emailed as a single PDF to
papadim@kth.se, with the subject line
"SIGSAC Early-Career Award Nomination – <nominee name>".
Receipt of every nomination will be acknowledged by email; if you do not
receive an acknowledgement within three working days, please write again.
Award Overview
The SIGSAC Outstanding Early-Career Researcher Award, approved by ACM in 2024,
is designed to recognize early-career researchers who have demonstrated exceptional
contributions to the field of computer security and privacy, broadly defined.
The award will be presented at the 2026 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and
Communications Security (CCS), November 15–19, 2026, The Hague, The Netherlands.
The award will be presented as a plaque or a framed certificate, accompanied by a
monetary prize of $1500 and waiver of the registration fee for attending the CCS
main conference.
Eligibility and Award Criteria
- A nominee's PhD degree should be received in 2020 or later.
- Career interruptions after the PhD — including parental leave, extended
illness, caregiving responsibilities, and compulsory military service —
may be taken into account. Nominators who wish such circumstances to be
considered should state them briefly in the nomination statement; the
committee will assess them case by case.
- Nominees will be evaluated by the award committee based on the impact,
originality, and depth of their work. Special emphasis will be placed on
significant research contributions made independently of the nominee's PhD
and postdoctoral advisors.
2026 SIGSAC Awards Committee
Panagiotis ’Panos’ Papadimitratos, Chair (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
The remaining committee members will be announced shortly.
Nomination Process
Each nomination should be submitted by a nominator with three endorsements.
Each nomination must include:
- Curriculum vitae of the nominee.
- A nomination statement summarizing the originality, depth, and impact of the
candidate's research (two pages maximum).
- Three endorsement letters, from people other than the nominator. Each letter
should be no longer than 500 words and explain the endorser's familiarity with
the nominee's contributions and the reasons behind endorsing the nominee.
Notes
- Self-nominations and self-endorsments are not allowed.
- Nominees and nominators are NOT required to be members of ACM or SIGSAC.
- The committee will adhere to the
ACM
Awards Committee Conflict of Interest (COI) guidelines. In particular,
members of the award committee or SIGSAC executive committee are not eligible
to be nominees, nominators, or endorsers.
- Each nominator can submit at most 1 nomination. There is no limit regarding
the number of nominees that one can endorse.
Past Award Recipients
2025
Julian Loss, Ruhr University Bochum
2024
- Nicolas Papernot, University of Toronto
- Elissa Redmiles, Georgetown University
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