Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Incorporated (KR Inc.) has established a KR Early Career Award to recognize early career researchers who have already made significant research contributions to the theory and/or practice of knowledge representation and reasoning and who demonstrate great promise for future impactful contributions.
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The official announcement will be made at KR 2024.
This award is for researchers having recently obtained their doctoral degrees. To be eligible for the 2024 Early Career Award, researchers should have completed their PhD degree in 2022 or 2023. Exceptions to this rule may however be granted in case of career interruptions (parental or family leave, long illness, etc.) or other compelling circumstances.
Differently from previous years and in order not to disadvantage early-career researchers, nominations of researchers having a close connection with a member of the Awards committee will be considered, in which case, appropriate procedures for handling such COIs will be put in place.
Note that it is not a requirement that the early-career researcher has published at the KR conference, but the relevance of their research to KRR in a broad sense (including implementation and applications of KRR techniques) should be evident.
To avoid duplicate nominations, nominators should inform the early-career researcher of their intent to submit a nomination, and there should be a single nomination for each early-career researcher.
Nominations should consist of:
Please also make sure that the CV and/or nomination letter mentions any career interruptions or other personal circumstances that are deemed relevant for fairly assessing the nominee's contributions and potential.
Nominations should be submitted via CMT (select the "KR 2024 Early Career Award" track): https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/KR2024/
A single PDF file (extension .pdf) should be uploaded consisting of the letter of support and CV. The name of the candidate should be put in the Title field, and the email address, affiliation, and PhD defense date of the candidate should be listed in the Abstract box.
Note: if you wish to nominate an early-career researcher having a close relationship with a member of this year's KR Awards Committee, please submit your nomination by email to a committee member not having a conflict with the nominee and/or to the KR Inc. President (Esra Erdem).
This year's KR Awards committee consists of Gerhard Brewka, Meghyn Bienvenu (chair), and Tommie Meyer.
Inquires should be sent to kr2024.awards@cse.unsw.edu.au.
The committee composition may be modified if needed to handle any COI situations.