IMC 2018 Shadow PC
News
A report for this year’s Shadow PC has been published: Student Report on IMC 2018 Shadow PC.
Background
To provide an educational experience by exposing students to a review process and to subsequently train the next generation of program committee (PC) members, the ACM IMC 2018 TPC would like to make submitted papers available to the shadow PC. Shadow PCs allow students and others interested in future PC service to read submitted papers and go through the reviewing process, ultimately arriving at a shadow conference program. This opportunity allows future PC members to learn first-hand about the peer-review process and gain experience as a reviewer.
The shadow PC process is run on a different system and the shadow PC reviewers will not have any access to the real reviews, the names of the real reviewers, or any other data such as relative rankings. Shadow PC reviewers will have to abide by the same rules and restrictions applicable to regular PC members. This includes, but is not limited to, rules against discussing the papers outside of the PC context, or using in any way results from reviewed papers before such papers have been published. Delegated reviews (i.e., external reviews) are not allowed for the shadow PC.
Shadow PC Chairs (contact: imc18shadowtpcchairs@lists.fu-berlin.de)
- Matthias Wählisch (Freie Universitat Berlin)
- Gareth Tyson (Queen Mary University of London)
- Aruna Balasubramanian (Stony Brook University)
Call for applications for Shadow PC
The Shadow PC will consist of PhD students, postdocs, early-career academics, and junior researchers and will provide reviews on a subset of submissions to the conference. Paper authors can choose to opt-in for shadow reviews.
The IMC Shadow PC will function much like an independent version of the “Senior” PC. It will therefore involve deciding the papers it would have selected (note that only authors will learn the “shadow” fate of their own papers; it will have no impact on the actual IMC PC process). Shadow PC members will be expected to review a full load of 5-10 papers (depending on the number of submissions selected for the Shadow PC process) on time and participate in online discussion, as well as follow the ethical standards of peer review. Shadow PC members will also be required to do a small amount of reading about the PC process. Shadow PC members must respect the anonymity of the review process and not share which papers they have reviewed or solicit sub-reviews. Shadow PC members who do not adhere to the review deadlines will be excluded from the process. Shadow PC reviews will be made available (anonymized) to the authors.
What differs from common Shadow TPCs?
We also plan to use the Shadow PC as a means to experiment with new approaches to managing the TPC decision process. We will implement an A/B experiment to compare the experience of in-person vs. remote meetings. As part of this, the IMC Shadow PC will be split in two groups. (i) Those who will attend an in-person Shadow PC meeting, held at the end of July in Berlin; (ii) Those who will attend an online meeting via professional video conferencing distributed among two or more remote sites, also held at the end of July. Every participant needs to decide up front which group he or she would like to join. We assume that members based in Europe can travel easier and expect from them to attend the one-day in-person meeting.
The outcomes of these two meetings will be recorded and compared, then used to support SIGCOMM’s policy formulation for future PC meetings. If asked to participate in the in-person meeting, Shadow PC members should strive to attend (some travel grants will be available to support attendance). Shadow PC members will not attend the Senior PC meeting, and the Shadow PC program acceptance decisions will not be made available publicly. However, some PC members might attend the shadow PC meeting to help with the discussions.
How to apply?
If you are interested in participating, please apply by uploading your application material to https://imc18shadowpc.hotcrp.com submission site by June 8, 2018, Midnight Pacific time. Your application should consist of a single PDF file which includes a CV and a brief (0.25-1 page) motivation statement explaining why you’d like to participate in the shadow PC. Be sure to include your name, position/year of study, areas of research experience, publications (feel free to include tech reports, papers under submission/preparation, and unreviewed manuscripts, as long as you indicate them as such) or past reviewing experience (it is okay to have none).
Important Dates
Deadline to apply for Shadow PC | June 8, 2018 (Midnight Pacific time) |
Notification of acceptance | June 12, 2018 |
Shadow review deadline (1st round reviews) | July 3, 2018 |
Shadow review deadline (2nd round reviews) | July 15, 2018 |
Shadow online discussion period | July 15-July 19, 2018 |
Shadow PC meeting (online) | July 20, 2018 |
Shadow PC meeting (in-person) | July 23, 2018 |
Shadow PC
Group A (attending in-person meeting)
- Alemnew Sheferaw (Asrese Aalto University)
- Andreas Reuter (Freie Universität Berlin)
- Aravindh Raman (King’s College London)
- Arun Dunna (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
- Costas Iordanou (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid / TU Berlin)
- Danny Alex Lachos Perez (University of Campinas (UNICAMP))
- Debopam Bhattacherjee (ETH Zürich)
- Ermias Walelgne (Aalto University)
- Gareth Tyson (Queen Mary University of London)
- Helge Reelfs RWTH (Aachen University)
- Jagmohan Chauhan (Aalto University)
- Kevin Vermeulen (Sorbonne Université)
- Marcin Nawrocki (Freie Universität Berlin)
- Mattijs Jonker (University of Twente)
- Mohammad Shahrad (Princeton University)
- Moritz Mueller (SIDN and University of Twente)
- Oliver Gasser (Technical University of Munich)
- Olivier van der Toorn (University of Twente)
- Panagiota Katsikouli (University of Lyon / INRIA)
- Simon Kassing (ETH Zürich)
- Timm Böttger (Queen Mary University of London)
- Yang Zhang (CISPA)
Group B (attending remote meeting)
- A S M Rizvi (University of Southern California)
- Abhishek Kumar (University of Helsinki)
- Adib Rastegarnia (Purdue University)
- Amit Samanta (IIT Kharagpur)
- Amreesh Phokeer (University of Cape Town)
- Animesh Srivastava (Caspar.AI)
- Antoine Saverimoutou (Orange Labs)
- Arani Bhattacharya (Stony Brook University)
- Arpit Merchant (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology)
- Arun Dunna (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
- Behnaz Arzani (Microsoft Research)
- Benjamin VanderSloot (University of Michigan)
- Byungjin Jun (Northwestern University)
- Changchang Liu (IBM T.J Watson Research)
- Dheryta Jaisinghani (IIIT-Delhi India)
- Divyashri Bhat (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
- Gargi Mitra (Indian Institute of Technology Madras)
- Giovanni Comarela (Universidade Federal de Viçosa)
- Huyen Le (The University of Iowa)
- Hyunsu Mun (Chungnam National University)
- Indira Sen (IIIT Delhi)
- Ioana Livadariu (Simula Research Laboratory)
- James Newman (Northwestern University)
- Junjue Wang (Carnegie Mellon University)
- Justin Chan (University of Washington)
- Kunal Mahajan (Columbia University)
- Mallesham Dasari (Stony Brook University)
- Manikantan Srinivasan (Indian Institute of Technology Madras)
- Matthew Hall (University of Oregon)
- Meenakshi Syamkumar (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
- Mohammad Taha Khan (University of Illinois at Chicago)
- Mohammed Alasmar (University of Sussex)
- Morgan Vigil-Hayes (Northern Arizona University)
- Muhammad Ahmad Bashir (Northeastern University)
- Muhammad Hammad Mazhar (University of Iowa)
- Phuong Cao (University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign)
- Pierre Laperdrix (Stony Brook University)
- Prasanna Karthik Vairam (Indian Institute of Technology Madras)
- Quirin Scheitle (Technical University of Munich (TUM))
- Ramakrishna Padmanabhan (University of Maryland)
- Ramon Fontes (University of Campinas - UNICAMP)
- Rehmat Ullah (Hongik University)
- Revathy Narayanan (Indian Institute of Technology Madras)
- Roderick Fanou (CAIDA/UC San Diego)
- Sadegh Momeni Milajerdi (University of Illinois at Chicago)
- Sareena Karapoola (Indian Institute of Technology Madras)
- Sathiya Kumaran Mani (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
- Savvas Zannettou (Cyprus University of Technology)
- Sergey Madaminov (Stony Brook University)
- Shuai Hao (CAIDA/UC San Diego)
- Sivaramakrishnan Ramanathan (University of Southern California)
- Supreeth Shastri (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
- Taejoong Chung (Northeastern University)
- Tarun Mangla (Georgia Institute of Technology)
- Tianzhu Zhang (Telecom ParisTech)
- Varun Chandrasekaran (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
- Yuankai Zhang (Georgetown University)
- Zachary S. Bischof (IIJ Research Lab)
- Zane Ma (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
- Zhenyu Zhou (Duke University)
- Zili Meng (Tsinghua University)