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 four 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
Track D--- Best Hardware and Physics 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, 2024 until December 31, 2024.
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
October 2024 Call for nomination opened
*All nominations must be submitted by February 28, 2025
March-April Review period
May-June Award recipients are notified; selections announced
Till the end of 2025 ‘Cybersecurity’s salon event’
Reviewing Process and Instructions
Recipient selection will be administered through the Awards Committee and up to four 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 2024 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 2025:
Best Practical Paper--- Tao Ni, Xiaokuan Zhang, and Qingchuan Zhao, “Recovering Fingerprints from In-Display Fingerprint Sensors via Electromagnetic Side Channel”, Proceedings of the 2023 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS '23).
Best Machine Learning and Security Paper--- Boxin Wang, Weixin Chen, Hengzhi Pei, Chulin Xie, Mintong Kang, Chenhui Zhang, Chejian Xu, Zidi Xiong, Ritik Dutta, Rylan Schaeffer, Sang Truong, Simran Arora, Mantas Mazeika, Dan Hendrycks, Zinan Lin, Yu Cheng, Sanmi Koyejo, Dawn Song, Bo Li, “DecodingTrust: A Comprehensive Assessment of Trustworthiness in GPT Models”, Conference and Workshop on Neural Information Processing Systems(NeurIPS2023).