The Young Researchers’ Symposium at CODS-COMAD 2019 invites submissions from students and postdoctoral fellows. This is a unique opportunity for young researchers to have fruitful peer-to-peer discussions and to get feedback from leading senior researchers about their current research work,

Submissions to the Young Researchers’ Symposium (YRS) are invited on all topics of interest to the CODS-COMAD conference (http://www.cods-comad.in/2019/cfp2019.html). We welcome many kinds of papers, such as, but not limited to: novel research papers, work-in-progress papers, appraisal papers of existing methods and tools (e.g., lessons learned).

The first author of any submission should be a full-time undergraduate / postgraduate / PhD student, or a Postdoctoral researcher having completed his / her PhD not earlier than 2016, affiliated with any academic institution.

Authors of accepted papers will get a chance to present their work both as a poster and a short oral presentation at the conference. The proceedings will be published in ACM Digital Library. Additionally, authors of accepted papers will have the choice to opt their paper out of the conference proceedings. Providing student travel grants to support the participation of authors of accepted papers is under consideration.


== Submission format ==

The submission should not exceed four pages (including all images, tables and references) using ACM "sigconf" proceedings template available at https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template. The submission should mention name and affiliation of all author(s), status of first author (Undergraduate / Postgraduate / Doctoral / Postdoctoral), and contact email address. All submissions must be in English and in PDF format. All submissions must be made via Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=codscomad2019.


== Important dates ==

Submission of papers due: October 01, 2018
Notification of acceptance: November 01, 2018
Camera ready version due: November 15, 2018
CODS-COMAD conference: January 03-05, 2019


== Young Researcher Symposium Chairs ==

Sahely Bhadra, IIT Palakkad, India
Saptarshi Ghosh, IIT Kharagpur, India


== Program Committee ==

Aadirupa Saha, IISc Bangalore, India
Abir De, MPI for Software Systems, Germany
Adway Mitra, IIT Bhubaneswar, India
Arindam Pal, TCS Research, India
Bhargava Jagarlapudi, IISc Bangalore, India
Chandrashekar Lakshmi Narayanan, IIT Palakkad, India
Gautham Tholpadi, Peritus.ai, India
J. SakethaNath, IIT Hyderabad, India
Joydeep Chandra, IIT Patna, India
Kripabandhu Ghosh, IIT Kanpur, India
Lavanya Sita Tekumalla, Entrepreneur First, India
Mainack Mondal, University of Chicago, USA
Malay Bhattacharyya, ISI Kolkata, India
Mayank Singh, IIT Gandhinagar, India
Mrinal Kanti Das, IIT Palakkad, India
Naresh Manwani, IIIT Hyderabad, India
Parantapa Bhattacharya, Virginia Tech, USA
Plaban Kumar Bhowmick, IIT Kharagpur, India
Rijurekha Sen, IIT Delhi, India
Sandipan Sikdar, RWTH Aachen, Germany
Suman Kalyan Maiti, Northwestern University, USA
Syamantak Das, IIIT Delhi, India



For more details, see the YRS 2019 website:
http://cods-comad.in/2019/yrs.html