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IPDPS 2025 PhD Forum Co- Chair
Sanmukh Kuppannagari, Case Western Reserve University, USA
Ana Lucia Varbanescu, University of Twente and University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
IPDPS 2025 PhD Forum Vice-Chair
Tanwi Malick, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Contact: phdforum@ipdps.org
Overview of IPDPS PhD Student Mentoring Program
The IPDPS PhD Forum welcomes current graduate students working toward a PhD in broadly defined areas related to parallel and distributed processing. Previous IPDPS PhD forums have offered graduate students the opportunity to join the conference and present a research poster describing their PhD research to the entire IPDPS conference audience. The poster session is a great opportunity for students to connect to the IPDPS community, to discuss their research with experts in academia and industry, to make useful contacts, and learn about future career opportunities.
IPDPS 2025 in Milano, Italy, will continue with this tradition and feature a dedicated PhD forum where participating students will have the opportunity to both present their research work and interact with academic and industry people in an informal setting. In addition, we plan mentoring sessions to help students improve their communication skills, obtain valuable information for career planning, get familiar with trendy research topics, and make valuable contacts – all while enjoying the IPDPS main conference and many associated workshops. The program will culminate with a poster presentation, where students will have the opportunity to showcase their research posters and interact with the broader IPDPS audience.
The goal of the IPDPS PhD Forum is to provide a comprehensive venue and an inspiring program for students to better prepare for their research and career in parallel and distributed computing. PhD Forum activities will be scheduled so that the participating students can follow all the main scientific and social events of the conference. The PhD Forumit is open for submissions from all students, including authors of papers presented at the conference.
List of PhD Forum Candidates and their Projects
Information for PhD Forum Poster Presenters
The posters should be at least 32x40 inches (or 80x100cm) – see below. Student presenters are warmly encouraged to prepare professional rolled up posters, in contrast with a mosaic of small slides to post. The poster should preferably be printed with a high-quality device. The location for hanging the poster will be numbered using your PhD poster number in the program. Push pins or tape will be provided for mounting your poster. See poster guidelines at the end of this page.
Planned Program
The virtual session on poster preparation will be conducted online before the conference starts and will discuss best practices on preparing a poster. This will enable students to be intentional about the design and content choices while preparing their posters for the conference.
A session on poster pitching will train the candidates in producing a 1-2 minute elevator pitch for their poster as well as their research in general. The students will work in groups to discuss their pitches and polish them using feedback from others.
A panel on research and career planning will include representatives from academia, research laboratories (non-industry), and industry. After a brief description from each panel member about what their job entails and why you might consider it, attendees are open to ask any questions to help guide what decision is the right one for them. While this is career focused, other topics, such as lifestyle and side effects of the career choices on their personal life are welcomed.
The 2025 PhD Forum program will be conducted at lunch sessions for the student participants on three days of the conference – Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday – and conclude late afternoon on Friday with an hour-long poster session. Details to follow by May 15.
Poster Guidelines
Some basic guidelines on how to organize your poster include:
- Relax, posters are intended to engage an interested person in conversation and then support that conversation.
- Posters should be no larger than an A0 paper size (841 x 1189 mm or 33.1 x 46.8 in). If it is horizontally structured, please still fit within the portrait dimensions specified (33.1 x 46.8 in max).
- Be sure the title and organizational affiliations are clear along the top.
- Consider the normal left-to-right, top-to-bottom reading order for English when organizing the contents. Multiple columns are perfectly acceptable
- Include a QR code to a website that includes the poster abstract and an electronic copy of the poster itself.
- If there are existing publications by the poster authors on the topic, these should be the only references.
- Balance the amount of graphics and text. A visitor should be able to get the high level view within 1 minute and decide if they want to engage you.
- Graphics should show structure and general measurements that illustrate the results.
- Text should explain things without large paragraphs explaining.
- Text should be large enough to easily read at 6 feet (2 meters) distance.
- Assume the viewer is somewhat to generally knowledgeable about the topic eliminating the need for long motivational passages.
- Provide sufficient motivational material to show at a glance the poster authors understand potential impact.
- Compensation for color blindness is important. Design for monochrome but add color to highlight.
Organizers are exploring options for printing posters on-site, but participants are encouraged to prepare in advance and to carry their poster with them to the conference. Return here after May 15 to learn what option – if any – might be available to attendees.
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