DSN-2025: Doctoral Forum Call For Contributions

The DSN Doctoral Forum provides an opportunity for students working in the area of dependable and secure computing to present and discuss their research objectives, approach, and preliminary results. The goal is for students to present their ongoing research work, discuss emerging research ideas and initial results, and get feedback that can help shape their future research directions and career. We especially encourage submissions from early-stage (pre-proposal) PhD students.

Students participating in the DSN 2025 mentoring program are highly encouraged to submit papers and attend the Doctoral Forum session with their mentor.

To participate in the forum, students should submit a two-page paper on their ongoing work, which will go through a review process. The student authors of selected papers will present their work during the Doctoral Forum session, which will be attended by both fellow students and experienced researchers working in the field of dependable and secure computing, encouraging active discussion. The ideal paper will have a clear and compelling problem definition, innovative insights on solutions, a well-defined research plan, and preliminary results to motivate the research topic and justify the proposed solutions. Topics of interest are the same as the areas of focus for the main conference. Please refer to the DSN research track call for papers for more details: DSN 2025 CFP

Important dates

Submission Guidelines

All Doctoral Forum papers must have a student as the first author. The student's advisor may be a co-author on the submission. The paper should describe the topic, preliminary results, and future direction of the student's ongoing research. The student must commit to presenting the work in person, if accepted, at the conference.

Papers submitted to the Doctoral Forum should be at most two pages in length (excluding references), and must be formatted using the IEEE Computer Society 8.5”x11” two-column camera-ready format (using a 10-point font on 12-point single-spaced leading). The templates are reproduced below for your convenience, and further details can be found here: Latex and Word Templates.

Papers must be submitted in PDF format via EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dsns2025

Papers will go through a single-blind review process. The review process will be led by the Doctoral Forum co-chairs, and include reviews conducted by a program committee consisting of senior PhD students, recent PhD graduates, and postdoctoral researchers in the areas of dependable and secure computing, invited by the co-chairs.

All accepted papers will be published in the supplemental volume of the DSN proceedings and will be made available through IEEExplore. Accepted papers will be presented in a dedicated session at the conference.

Doctoral Forum Chairs

Sonia Ben Mokhtar, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), France
Gautam Gala, Technical University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU), Germany

Contact

For further information please send an email to doctoral_forum@dsn.org

Program Committee

Mohammad Ibrahim Alkoudsi, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern
Tolga Atalay, Virginia Tech
Phuong Cao, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Elisa Chiapponi, EURECOM
Charles Goncalves, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG)
Hasan Heydari, ENAC Université de Toulouse, France
Haytham Hiajzi, University of Coimbra (CISUC)
Archit Patke, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jiacheng Shen, Duke Kunshan University
Sheng Wen, Swinbourne University of Technology
Abdullah Giray Yaglikci, ETH Zurich
Ruotong Yu, Virginia Tech
Peterson Yuhala, University of Neuchatel
Xugui Zhou, Louisiana State University
Lei Zhou, CSU China
Carina da Silva, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
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