SIGMOBILE Rockstar 2026

The RockStar Award is SIGMOBILE's early career award. The Award recognizes an individual who has made recent outstanding research or product contributions to the field of mobile computing during the early part of that person's career.

The SIGMOBILE RockStar Award recognizes one or more recent technical contribution(s) made in the early part of a mobile computing researcher's career, resulting in notable influence on our field. Early career for an individual is defined as within 10 years of receiving their highest university degree or younger than 40 years of age at the time of the nomination.

Selection is based on the impact of the candidate's work in creating promising new ideas, paradigms, and tools, related to mobile computing. Depth, impact, and novelty of the individual's contributions will be key criteria upon which the RockStar Award Committee (RAC) will evaluate the nominees.

Nomination Process The nominator should solicit recommendations from colleagues in the field who are most familiar with the nominee's achievements. An individual may nominate, or endorse, multiple nominees; self nominations are not allowed. Per ACM policy, no members of the selection committee may serve as nominator or endorser.

Each nomination should consist of the following items:

1. Name, phone number, organization, job title, and email address of the person making the nomination.
2. Curriculum vitae of the nominee, including name, phone number and email address.
3. A brief citation, no more than 50 words long. See examples from the Rockstar award page.
4. A statement, no more than 500 words long (excluding references), on why the candidate deserves the award. The statement should confirm that the nominee meets the criterion: “within 10 years of receiving their highest university degree or younger than 40 years of age at the time of the nomination.”
5. Minimum of three and maximum of five supporting statements from other individuals who endorse the nomination. The endorser should identify the rationale for the nomination and by what means they know of the nominee's work. Endorsement letters may be sent in the form of emails and should not be more than 400 words.
6. Submit your nominations here. Note: Please combine all nomination material into one pdf file for your submission to the HotCRP system.

In the submission form, indicate the nominee's name and affiliation in the Submission Title field --- such as Suman Banerjee (UW-Madison), the nominator as the first and only author of the submission, and the materials as a PDF.