Call for Nominations: TCMC (Technical Community on Multimedia Computing) Awards
TCMC (Technical Community on Multimedia Computing) calls for nominations of the following awards.
IEEE TCMC Rising Star Award
This award is based on an individual's whole body of work in the first 5 years after the PhD. The award aims to promote current multimedia computing researchers as they begin their careers.
Eligibility
The candidate should have completed all the requirements for the PhD no earlier than five years before December 31 of the previous calendar year, i.e., December 31, 2019, for the 2025 awards. The candidate can be any IEEE TCMC member except the current officers of IEEE TCMC and members of the IEEE TCMC 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. The letters need to address the significance of the contributions cited in the nomination. For the award year 2025, the nomination deadline will be December 20th, 2025. 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.
IEEE TCMC Mid-Term Career Award
This award recognizes mid-career multimedia computing researchers who have made at least 5 to 15 years of outstanding contributions to the field in terms of one or more of the following: (1) Research (2) Industry Practice (3) Societal Impact.
Eligibility
The candidate(s) can be any IEEE TCMC member except the current officers of IEEE TCMC and members of the IEEE TCMC Awards Committee.
Nomination Submission
Please submit the nomination package to the TCMC Chair, Dr. Min Chen, at minchen2@uw.edu by December 20th, 2025 with the email subject “TCMC Award: the award you are nominating (nominee name)”. Please also attach evidence of your TCMC membership (please see below how to join TCMC.)
