VMware Systems Research Award

Questions and Nominations

The VMware academic team is pleased to announce the second annual award in support of the computer science research community. The objective of this award is to call attention to a valuable and promising body of emerging computer science systems research and provide support for continued advances by an emerging research leader.

Award Characteristics:

  • Frequency of Award: Annual
  • Award amount: $100,000
  • Award Term: The award will be in the form of an unrestricted gift to the recipient’s university, in support of her/his research
  • 2016 winner: Matei Zaharia, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University

Key Dates:

  • Nomination deadline: November 3, 2017
  • Award announcement: December 13, 2017
VMware Systems Research Award

Nomination process:

  • Nominations may be submitted by the department chair (one per department chair).
  • Each submission should include a proposed citation of at most 20 words, contact information for three references, and a one-page summary statement concerning the originality, impact, and future potential of the nominee’s research.
  • Nominations must be submitted via email to sysaward@vmware.com

Eligibility:

  • Early-career university faculty worldwide (within 5 years of their first tenure-track appointment).
  • Former full-time VMware employees are not eligible; previous interns are eligible.

Evaluation Criteria:
Originality, impact, and future potential of early-career research results in computer science systems research.

Award Committee:
The Award Committee is made up of distinguished faculty in the field of Computer Science systems research, as well as senior VMware research leaders. The Award Committee will be responsible for reviewing nominations and making the final selection of an award recipient.

Committee Chair:

  • Michael Stonebraker (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Committee Members:

  • Greg Ganger (Carnegie Mellon University)
  • James Larus (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
  • Jennifer Rexford (Princeton University)
  • Chris Ramming (VMware)
  • Pratap Subrahmanyam (VMware)
  • David Tennenhouse (VMware)
  • Raj Yavatkar (VMware)

 

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