About the Award
The Cybersecurity Award is presented to authors whose work represent outstanding and groundbreaking research in all essential aspects of cybersecurity. The award will be bestowed upon three distinguished papers focused on the following perspectives:
Track A--- Best Theoretical Research Paper
Track B--- Best Practical Research Paper
Track C--- Best Machine Learning and Security Paper
The award carries a USD $1500 prize for every winning paper and comes with statue and certificate to commemorate.
Scope
Any paper by any author written in the area of cybersecurity is eligible for nomination. Please note that your paper must have appeared in a refereed journal, conference, or workshop with proceedings published in the period from January 1, 2023 until December 31, 2023.
Your paper shall cover at least one of the following aspects:
• Cryptography and its applications
• Network and critical infrastructure security
• Hardware security
• Software and system security
• Cybersecurity data analytics
• Data-driven security and measurement studies
• Adversarial reasoning
• Malware analysis
• Privacy-enhancing technologies and anonymity
• IoT Security
• AI Security
Submission Guidelines
Your nomination shall be directly sent to cybersecurity@iie.ac.cn with the following contents:
• Full paper (Word or PDF format preferred)
• Official publication site of the paper
• The track you prefer (only one track can be chosen per paper)
• Anything else you feel necessary to note
Schedule
February Call for nomination opened
*All nominations must be submitted by May 10, 2024
June-July Review period
August- September Award recipients are notified; selections announced
Till the end of 2024 ‘Cybersecurity’s salon event’
Reviewing Process and Instructions
Recipient selection will be administered through the Awards Committee and up to three nominated papers will be selected.
ONLY authors of the awarded papers will be notified via email. Subsequently, these authors will be invited to present seminar in ‘Cybersecurity’s salon event’. Besides, an extended paper of your winning paper will be invited to publish in journal Cybersecurity.
Previous Winner
In previous 2023 nomination, the award was given to the following two papers. Let’s celebrate the winners mention below to get a taste of what to expect during Cybersecurity Award 2024:
Best Practical Paper--- Kaihua Qin; Liyi Zhou; Arthur Gervais, "Quantifying Blockchain Extractable Value: How dark is the forest?", 2022 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP), San Francisco, CA, USA, 2022, pp. 198-214.
Best Machine Learning and Security Paper--- Hammond Pearce; Baleegh Ahmad; Benjamin Tan; Brendan Dolan-Gavitt; Ramesh Karri, "Asleep at the Keyboard? Assessing the Security of GitHub Copilot’s Code Contributions", 2022 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP), San Francisco, CA, USA, 2022, pp. 754-768.