Nominations Open for ACM India Awards: ECR 2024, OCCW 2024 and OCCE 2024
Nominations Open for ACM India Awards: ECR 2024, OCCW 2024 and OCCE 2024
The ACM India Council is now inviting nominations for 2024 awards for Early Career Researcher (ECR), Outstanding Contributions in Computing by a Woman (OCCW), and Outstanding Contribution to Computing Education (OCCE). These awards recognize outstanding technical and professional contributions to the field of computing from India. We encourage nominations of contributors from diverse backgrounds such as geography, institutions/organizations, gender, thinking style and so on.
The nomination deadline for all these awards is 15 September 2024, 11 pm IST.
- The ECR award is presented to individuals in the early stages of their career who have made outstanding contributions to the computing field primarily working in India. The award will carry a prize of ₹15 lakhs sponsored by Persistent Foundation.
- The OCCW award recognizes women professionals who have made fundamental, innovative, impactful contributions to the computing field primarily working in India. The award will carry a prize of ₹7 lakhs sponsored by Google.
- The OCCE award will be presented to individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the computing education field primarily working in India. The award will carry a prize of ₹7 lakhs sponsored by Microsoft Research India.
An independent international jury for each award comprising eminent computing personalities will select the winners. The details of the awards such as timelines, eligibility, evaluation criteria and nomination process can be accessed via the respective award pages above. The online nomination form is now live and available via: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/ACMIndiaAwards2024.
Regards,
ACM India Awards Steering Committee
