The ICDE 2024 Ph.D. Symposium provides a forum for Ph.D. students to present their research ideas and interact with and receive feedback from senior members of the research community in academia and industry. The focus of the Symposium is to provide mentorship and constructive feedback to the students. The Symposium fosters a collaborative environment, encouraging constructive discussions and sharing of ideas.

Submissions are encouraged from students who have not yet received their Ph.D. degrees. Submissions from students in the early stages of their research should provide a clear statement of the problem being addressed and a clear outline of the planned methodology. Submissions from students who are farther into their research should clearly state the contributions made so far and the work lying ahead.

Submission deadline: January 12, 2024
Notification of acceptance: February 16, 2024
Camera-ready copy due: February 23, 2024
Symposium date: May 2024

• Must be single-authored by the student.
• Must specify the student’s name as the sole, primary author.
• Must provide the expected Ph.D. graduation date, in parenthesis next to the name.
• Must specify the name of the supervisor(s), marked as “Supervised by”, under the author’s name.
• The manuscripts should contain the statement of the problem being addressed, an outline of the planned methodology, contributions made so far, and the work lying ahead.
• Ph.D. Symposium papers must not exceed 5 (five) pages, including the bibliography. The five-page manuscripts must be prepared following the submission guidelines for them to be included in the IEEE proceedings and follow the IEEE format (https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html).
• Manuscripts must be submitted to the Ph.D. Symposium Track of the ICDE 2024 submission website (https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/ICDEPhDSym2024).

Accepted papers will be published by IEEE as an ICDE workshop and will be indexed by DBLP and IEEE Xplore. Students with accepted papers will be required to make a brief presentation, as well as prepare and present a poster during the poster presentation event of the main conference.

Alekh Jindal, SmartApps, USA
Byron Choi, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong SAR, China