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IPDPS 2025 PhD Forum Co-Chairs
Kamesh Madduri, Pennsylvania State University,USA
Ana Lucia Varbanescu, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Contact: phdforum@ipdps.org
Overview
The IPDPS 2026 PhD Forum welcomes current graduate students working toward a PhD in areas related to parallel and distributed processing. The PhD Forum gives graduate students an opportunity to present a research poster describing their doctoral research to the entire IPDPS conference audience. The program includes mentoring sessions designed to help students enhance their communication skills, gain valuable career planning insights, explore current research trends, and build professional connections.
The 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 Forum is now open for submissions from all students, including authors of papers presented at the conference.
Call for Submissions
We invite submissions of 2-page summaries of your doctoral research, including the problem statement, the research methodology being used, progress thus far, and planned future steps to complete the work. Submitters must still be enrolled in the doctoral program at the time of attending IPDPS 2026, and can only participate once in an IPDPS PhD Forum.
Please use single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11-inch pages (IEEE conference style). References do not count toward the 2-page limit. References must be complete and include all author names for each reference cited. An appendix is allowed and the entire submission must not exceed 10 pages.
Our goal is to accept as many submissions as capacity allows, but the availability of our resources, as well as other screening factors, will limit the number of participants in the program. To be fair, we will accept submissions in two rounds. The deadline for the first round is March 20, with notifications by March 30. The deadline for the second round is April 13, with notification on April 20. We strongly encourage submissions in the first round, as the number of slots might be limited in the second round.
A selection committee of experts from the different IPDPS 2026 focus areas will review the applications together with the PhD Forum Co-Chairs. By submitting an application, the student is committing to prepare and attend the conference in order to present a poster, and to participate in the planned mentoring and networking opportunities.
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