[visionlist] [IEEE Biometrics Council]: Call for Nominations: 2025 IEEE Biometrics Council Awards - Deadline March 1st, 2025

[Vitomir Štruc]

Call for Nominations: 2025 IEEE Biometrics Council Awards
(Deadline: 1st March 2025)


The IEEE Biometrics Council is inviting nominations for three 
prestigious council awards.

Details on the call are available at 
https://ieee-biometrics.org/2025-award-nominations-open/

*** 1. IEEE Biometrics Council Meritorious Service Award ***
Deadline: March 1, 2025

Nominations are invited for the "IEEE Biometrics Council Meritorious 
Service Award" to honor outstanding service in the field of biometrics. 
The award is administered by the IEEE Biometrics Council Award 
Committee, which is responsible for reviewing and recommending 
candidates to the IEEE Biometrics Council Executive Committee. This 
award will be presented at IJCB 2025.
Any current IEEE member of the member societies of the Biometrics 
Council who has been active in the fields of interest of the IEEE 
Biometrics Council for more than fifteen years is eligible. Current 
officers of the Society’s Executive Committee are ineligible. A 
nomination should include the following information: (i) nominee's name 
and contact address, (ii) nominator contact details, (iii) URL of 
nominee's website with bio and CV, (iv) URL of Google Scholar citations, 
(v) statement - 500 words max, (vi) names of three references willing to 
write supporting letters. The awardee will receive a plaque and $1,000 
honorarium.

*** 2. IEEE Biometrics Council Leadership Award ***
Deadline: March 1, 2025

Nominations are invited for the "IEEE Biometrics Council Leadership 
Award" to recognize outstanding leadership in the field of Biometrics. 
The award is administered by the IEEE Biometrics Council Award 
Committee, which is responsible for reviewing and recommending 
candidates to the IEEE Biometrics Council Executive Committee. This 
award will be presented at IJCB 2025.
Any current IEEE member of the member societies of the Biometrics 
Council who has been active in the fields of interest of the IEEE 
Biometrics Council for more than fifteen years is eligible. Current 
officers of the Society’s Executive Committee are ineligible. A 
nomination should include the following information: (i) nominee's name, 
contact address, (ii) nominator contact details, iii) URL of nominee's 
website with bio and CV, (iv) URL of google scholar citations, (v) 
statement - 500 words max, (vi) names of three references willing to 
write supporting letters. The awardee will receive a plaque and $2,000 
honorarium.


*** 3. IEEE Biometrics Council Best Doctoral Dissertation Award ***
Deadline: March 1, 2025

Nominations are invited for the "IEEE Biometrics Council Best Doctoral 
Dissertation Award" to express recognition for and to promote 
outstanding effort and contributions in a doctoral dissertation in the 
field of interest to the IEEE Biometrics Council. Any current member of 
IEEE is eligible to be nominated for the award. The nomination should 
originate for the nominee’s dissertation advisor. An advisor can 
nominate only one dissertation per year. The nomination should be within 
one year after the successful defense date. The dissertation can be 
written in any language. However, to be eligible for nomination an 
English language version must be provided. The award includes a USD 
1,000 honorarium and a commemorative plaque.


*** Contact Information ***
In case of any questions, please contact the Award Committee Chair, Dr. 
P. Jonathon Phillips  at biometrics.council.awards at gmail.com or VP 
Technical Activities, Prof. Vitomir Štruc at vitomir.struc at fe.uni-lj.si.


*** Important Dates ***
Nominations are accepted till March 1, 2025

-- 
Prof. Vitomir Struc, PhD
Laboratory for Machine Intelligence
Faculty of Electrical Engineering
University of Ljubljana, Slovenija
URL: https://lmi.fe.uni-lj.si/en/vitomir-struc/

VP Technical Activities, IEEE Biometrics Council
Supervisory Board Member: European Association for Biometrics (EAB)
Secretary of IAPR Technical Committee on Biometrics (TC4)

Program Co-Chair: IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security (WIFS 2024), https://wifs2024.uniroma3.it/
Program Co-Chair: IEEE Winter Conference on Applications in Computer Vision (WACV 2025)
Program Co-Chair: IEEE/IAPR International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB 2025)