SIGMOBILE Research Highlights

Committee Members and SIGMOBILE Conferences

• Chair: Xia Zhou, Columbia University
• Ex Chair: Lin Zhong, Yale University
• SIGMOBILE EC Chair: Mo Li, The Hong Kong University of Science and Engineering
• Fadel Adib, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Yasaman Ghasempour, Princeton University
• Swarun Kumar, Carnegie Mellon University
• Nic Lane, University of Cambridge
• Chenren Xu, Peking University

Nomination Sources

• Best papers at SIGMOBILE flagship conferences, including MobiCom, MobiSys, SenSys, and UbiComp, are nominated by default.
• The committee chair works with conference program chairs to review and nominate papers from SIGMOBILE conferences for full committee consideration.
• Any SIGMOBILE member may nominate a paper appearing in a SIGMOBILE conference. Authors may not nominate their own papers.

Community Candidates

Community members not on the committee may ask for papers to be considered by submitting a nominating proposal to the committee chair. The proposal should summarize the contribution of the paper, explain why it is suitable for the SIGMOBILE Highlights series, and be no more than one page in length.

Nominations can be made by emailing the title, authors, conference, and year of publication to sigmobile-highlights at acm.org.

Deadlines and Selection

• First deadline: February 28 each year for papers published in the previous 1-2 years.
• Second deadline: August 31 each year for papers published in the previous 1-2 years.

The committee selects highlight papers by considering technical quality, likely interest from computer scientists in other areas, broad impact to other disciplines, and public appeal.