FRANCES ALLEN Award
This award, granted by AEPIA, aims to give visibility to women researchers in the fields of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence. Its goal is to highlight the work of scholarship holders, professors, and researchers as role models for future female students.
It is named after Frances E. Allen, an American computer scientist and the first woman to receive the Turing Award (2006), an expert in compilers and code optimization.
Contact: caepia2026_FrancesAllen@easychair.org
Awards
Two awards will be granted for the best PhD theses defended by women between April 13, 2023 and the final proposal submission deadline:
- First Prize: 350 euros and accreditation diploma.
- Second Prize: 150 euros and accreditation diploma.
More information about the awards here.
Format
Candidates must submit a document of maximum 6 pages in LNAI format (Word | LaTeX2e) including:
| Information | Thesis title, supervisor(s), department/university, defense date, and final grade. |
| Abstract | Brief description of the thesis. |
| Publications | List of relevant publications, which must include the JCR index if it is a journal, its relative position in the field, citations in SCOPUS or WOS, and its relationship with the PhD thesis. |
| Relevance | Brief justification of the relevance of the thesis: knowledge transfer achieved from it, projects, research stays, etc. |
Submission and Dates
- Platform: Submission through EasyChair CAEPIA’26 (Frances Allen track).
- Submission deadline: May 15.
- Notification: June 17.
