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2025 Best Paper Award Winners

Congratulations to the authors of the 2025 Best Paper Award winners and runners-up!

The IEEE Computer Society Publications Board has awarded the following 2025 Best Paper Awards based on nominations submitted by each publication's awards committee. See all the past winners here.

2025 Best Paper Winners

IEEE Annals of the History of Computing: Mark Yu-Shan Chen, "Mechanical Numeracy: Thinking With the Soroban Abacus in Modern Japan,"in IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, vol. 47, no. 1, pp. 36-49, January-March 2025

IEEE Computer Architecture Letters: Shvetank Prakash, Andrew Cheng, Jason Yik, Arya Tschand, Radhika Ghosal, Ikechukwu Uchendu, Jessica Quaye, Jeffrey Ma, Shreyas Grampurohit, Sofia Giannuzzi, Arnav Balyan, Fin Amin, Aadya Pipersenia, Yash Choudhary, Ankita Nayak, Amir Yazdanbakhsh, Vijay Janapa Reddi, "QuArch: A Question-Answering Dataset for AI Agents in Computer Architecture," in IEEE Computer Architecture Letters, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 105-108, January-June 2025

Computer: J. Gregory Pauloski, Kyle Chard and Ian Foster, "Agentic Discovery: Closing the Loop With Cooperative Agents," in Computer, vol. 58, no. 10, pp. 20-27, Oct. 2025

IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications: Chi Zhang, Yu Dong, Yang Wang, Yuetong Han, Guihua Shan, Bixia Tang, “AuraGenome: An LLM-Powered Framework for On-the-Fly Reusable and Scalable Circular Genome Visualizations,” IEEE Computer Graphics Applications, vol. 45, no. 5, pp. 78–92, September-October 2025

Computing in Science & Engineering: Michael James Martin, Aaron Andersen, Charles Tripp, David Sickinger, Kristin Munch, "Integrating Energy-Efficient Computing With Computational Research to Accelerate Energy Technology,"  in Computing in Science & Engineering, vol. 27, no. 01, pp. 18-27, January-March 2025

IEEE Internet Computing: Sivaneasan Balakrishnan, Kuan Tak Tan, Wei Zhang, “Cognitive Digital Twins for the Microgrid: A Real-World Study for Intelligent Energy Management and Optimization,” IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 39-47, January-February 2025

IT Professional: Yuya Sasaki, Hironori Washizaki, Jialong Li, Nobukazu Yoshioka, Naoyasu Ubayashi, Yoshiaki Fukazawa, "Landscape and Taxonomy of Prompt Engineering Patterns in Software Engineering,” IT Professional, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 41-49, January-February 2025

IEEE Micro: Ian Schneider, Hui Xu, Stephan Benecke, David Patterson, Keguo Huang, Parthasarathy Ranganathan, and Cooper Elsworth, "An Introduction to Life-Cycle Emissions of Artificial Intelligence Hardware," in IEEE Micro, vol. 45, no. 5, pp. 9-19, Sept.-Oct. 2025

IEEE MultiMedia: Yung-Yao Chen, Sin-Ye Jhong, Hsin-Chun Lin, Yi-Chen Wu, "Vision–Language-Guided Adaptive Cross-Modal Fusion for Multispectral Object Detection Under Adverse Weather Conditions," in IEEE MultiMedia, vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 22-32, April-June 2025, doi: 10.1109/MMUL.2025.3525559.

IEEE Open Journal of the Computer Society: Yiwen Cui, Xu Han, Jiaying Chen, Xinguang Zhang, Jingyun Yang, Xuguang Zhang, "FraudGNN-RL: A Graph Neural Network With Reinforcement Learning for Adaptive Financial Fraud Detection," IEEE Open Journal of the Computer Society, vol. 6, pp. 426–437, 2025

IEEE Pervasive Computing: Daria Hemmerling, Paweł Jemioło, Mateusz Danioł, Marek Wodziński, Miłosz Dudek, Marta Kaczmarska, Kinga Jasiewicz, Magdalena Igras-Cybulska, Jakub Kamiński, Magdalena Wojcik-Pędziwiatri, "Mixed-Reality System for Neurodegenerative Disorders: Design, Implementation, and User Evaluation,” IEEE Pervasive Computing, vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 41-62, October-December 2025

IEEE Software: Yuchen Wang, Shangxin Guo, Chee Wei Tan, "From Code Generation to Software Testing: AI Copilot With Context-Based Retrieval-Augmented Generation," in IEEE Software, vol. 42, no. 4, pp. 34-42, July-August 2025

IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing: Yin Chen, Jia Li, Shiguang Shan, Meng Wang, Richang Hong, “From Static to Dynamic: Adapting Landmark-Aware Image Models for Facial Expression Recognition in Videos,”IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 624-638, April-June 2025

IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing: Feng Zhang, Chenyang Zhang, Jiawei Guan, Qiangjun Zhou, Kuangyu Chen, Xiao Zhang, Bingsheng He, Jidong Zhai, Xiaoyong Du, "Breaking the Edge: Enabling Efficient Neural Network Inference on Integrated Edge Devices," IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 694-710, April-June 2025

IEEE Transactions on Computers: Pingyi Huo, Theodore Michailidis, Yi Zheng, Prapti Panigrahi, Kiwan Maeng, Jishen Zhao, Vijaykrishnan Narayanan "SVDE: Serverless Framework for Low-Latency Video Analytic Queries With Hardware Disaggregation," in IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 74, no. 8, pp. 2717-2730, August 2025

IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing: Mina Kato, Tiago Koketsu Rodrigues, Nei Kato, "Breakout Local Search Solution to the Offloading Decision Problem in a Multi-Access Edge Computing Cloud-Enabled Network," in IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 1328-1338, July-September 2025

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing: Haijia Jin, Jun Wu, Weijie Yuan, Fan Liu, Yuanhao Cui,"Co-Design of Sensing, Communications, and Control for Low-Altitude Wireless Networks,"IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 24, Issue 11, pp. 12035-12048, November 2025

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems: Yuyang Jin, Haojie Wang, Xiongchao Tang, Zhenhua Guo, Yaqian Zhao, Torsten Hoefler, Tao Liu, Xu Liu, Jidong Zhai, "Leveraging Graph Analysis to Pinpoint Root Causes of Scalability Issues for Parallel Applications," in IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 36, no. 2, pp. 308-325, Feb. 2025

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering: Yao Deng, Zhi Tu, Jiaohong Yao, Mengshi Zhang, Tianyi Zhang, Xi Zheng, "TARGET: Traffic Rule-Based Test Generation for Autonomous Driving via Validated LLM Guided Knowledge Extraction," IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. 51, no. 7, pp. 1950-1968, July 2025

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) | AREA WINNER IN "COMPUTER GRAPHICS": Danpeng Chen, Hai Li, Weicai Ye, Yifan Wang, Weijian Xie, Shangjin Zhai, Nan Wang, Haomin Liu, Hujun Bao and Guofeng Zhang, "PGSR: Planar-based Gaussian Splatting for Efficient and High-Fidelity Surface Reconstruction," IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 31, Issue 9, pp. 6100-6111, September 2025

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) | AREA WINNER IN "VISUALIZATION AND VISUAL ANALYTICS": Yuan Tian, Weiwei Cui, Dazhen Deng, Xinjing Yi, Yurun Yang, Haidong Zhang, Yingcai Wu, "ChartGPT: Leveraging LLMs to Generate Charts From Abstract Natural Language," IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 31, Issue 3, March 2025

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) | AREA WINNER IN "VIRTUAL REALITY AND AUGMENTED REALITY": Sangjun Eom, Seijung Kim, Joshua Jackson, David Sykes, Shervin Rahimpour, Maria Gorlatova, "Augmented Reality-Based Contextual Guidance Through Surgical Tool Tracking in Neurosurgery,"  in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 31, no. 7, pp. 3913-3928, July 2025

2025 Runner-Up

IEEE Annals of the History of Computing: Sara M. B. Simon, "Operation Voder: AT&T, Bell Labs, and the Labor of Techno-Utopia at the 1939 New York World’s Fair," in IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, vol. 47, no. 2, pp. 20-31, April-June 2025

IEEE Computer Architecture Letters: Woohyung Choi, Jinwoo Jeong, Hanhwi Jang, Jeongseob Ahn, "GPU-Centric Memory Tiering for LLM Serving With NVIDIA Grace Hopper Superchip,"  in IEEE Computer Architecture Letters, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 33-36, January-June 2025

Computer: Sriram Panyam and Praveen Gujar, "How AI Agents Are Transforming Software Engineering and the Future of Product Development," in Computer, vol. 58, no. 05, pp. 71-77, May 2025

IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications: Vaishali Dhanoa, Anton Wolter, Gabriela Molina León, Hans-Jörg Schulz, Niklas Elmqvist, ”Agentic Visualization: Extracting Agent-Based Design Patterns From Visualization Systems,” IEEE Computer Graphics Applications, vol. 45, no. 6, pp. 89–100, November/December 2025

Computing in Science & Engineering: Stephan Druskat, Nasir U. Eisty, Robert Chisholm, Neil P. Chue Hong, Ryan C. Cocking, Myra B. Cohen, Michael Felderer, Lars Grunske, Sarah A. Harris, Wilhelm Hasselbring, Thomas Krause, Jan Linxweiler, Colin C. Venters, "Better Architecture, Better Software, Better Research," in Computing in Science & Engineering, vol. 27, no. 02, pp. 45-57, April-June 2025

IEEE Internet Computing: Ning Ruan, Kun Li, Qiyang Zhang, Lauri Lovén, Praveen Kumar Donta, Yi Jia, Schahram Dustdar, “Edge AI for Earth Observation,” IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 31-40, May-June 202

IEEE Micro: Au Huynh, Kent Stahn, Manuel Mota, Christian de Verteuil, Jennifer Pyon and Reza Movahedinia, "UCIe Standard: Enhancing Die-to-Die Connectivity in Modern Packaging," in IEEE Micro, vol. 45, no. 1, pp. 26-34, Jan.-Feb. 2025

IEEE Open Journal of the Computer Society: Shadi Jaradat, Mohammed Elhenawy, Huthaifa I. Ashqar, Alexander Paz, Richi Nayak, "Leveraging Deep Learning and Multimodal Large Language Models for Near-Miss Detection Using Crowdsourced Videos," IEEE Open Journal of the Computer Society, vol. 6, pp. 223–235, 2025

IEEE Pervasive Computing: Tarek Hamid, Elizabeth C. Courtney, Patricia Flores, Jane Byun, Afsaneh Doryab, Sibylle Kranz, Amanda Watson, "Characterization and Feasibility of Wearable Spectroscopic Tracking of Nutrition Biomarkers," in IEEE Pervasive Computing, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 10-21, July-September 2025

IEEE Software: Darja Šmite, Eriks Klotins, Nils Brede Moe, "What Attracts Employees to Work on Site in Times of Increased Remote Working?" in IEEE Software, vol. 42, no. 01, pp. 100-109, Jan.-Feb. 2025

IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing: Lucas Goncalves, Seong-Gyun Leem, Wei-Cheng Lin, Berrak Sisman, Carlos Busso, “Versatile Audio-Visual Learning for Emotion Recognition,” IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 306-318, January-March 2025

IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing: Yi Su, Wenhao Fan, Qingcheng Meng, Penghui Chen, Yuan'an Liu, "Joint Adaptive Aggregation and Resource Allocation for Hierarchical Federated Learning Systems Based on Edge-Cloud Collaboration," IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 369-382, January-March 2025

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems: Kyrian C. Adimora; Hongyang Sun, "HARMONIC: Uncertainty-Aware Multi-Objective Optimization for Energy-Efficient HPC Resource Management," in IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 36, no. 11, pp. 2438-2450, Nov. 2025

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering: Claudio Mandrioli, Seung Yeob Shin, Domenico Bianculli, Lionel Briand, "Testing CPS With Design Assumptions-Based Metamorphic Relations and Genetic  Programming," IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. 51, no. 6, pp. 1666-1684, June 2025

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics | AREA "COMPUTER GRAPHICS": Jaeyoung Chung, Suyoung Lee, Hyeongjin Nam, Jaerin Lee and Kyoung Mu Lee, "LucidDreamer: Domain-Free Generation of 3D Gaussian Splatting Scenes," IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 31, Issue 12, pp. 10640-10651, December 2025

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics | AREA "VISUALIZATION AND VISUAL ANALYTICS": Yuheng Zhao, Yixing Zhang, Yu Zhang, Xinyi Zhao, Junjie Wang, Zekai Shao, Cagatay Turkay, Siming Chen, "LEVA: Using Large Language Models to Enhance Visual Analytics," in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 31, no. 3, pp. 1830-1847, March 2025

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics | AREA "VIRTUAL REALITY AND AUGMENTED REALITY": Leonardo Pavanatto, Feiyu Lu, Chris North, Doug A. Bowman, "Multiple Monitors or Single Canvas? Evaluating Window Management and Layout Strategies on Virtual Displays," in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 31, no. 3, pp. 1713-1730, March 2025

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