PeerJ Computer Science – Spotlight on our Awards Program for computer science researchers

The PeerJ Awards program together with the journal PeerJ Computer Science recognizes outstanding research by early career researchers across multiple subject areas within computer science. We have been pleased to be able to support the computer science community in this way.

Our awards program was started in 2018. By teaming up with a number of conferences to offer these awards our aim is to make it as easy as possible for organizers to reward excellence in science, support students and early career researchers, and signal to the wider research community that open science is better science.

Below is a listing of PeerJ Award winners from past conferences and workshops within the computer science community and related disciplines:

1. Sebastian Daberdaku
Best Contribution by an Early Career Researcher, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology in Campania, November 2018, Italy
View Sebastian’s interview about the work he presented at BBCC and his next steps here.

2. Beata Mierzwa
Best Scientific Poster Prize, VIZBI Visualizing Biological Data, March 2019, Germany
EMBO Workshop: Visualising Biological Data (VIZBI 2019)

3. Mathias Witte-Paz
Best Presentation, BioVis at Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology, July 2019, Switzerland

Mathias Witte-Paz just gave a talk about Evidente at #ISMBECCB #biovis about a visual analytics approach for SNP-based phylogenetic trees that allows the user to find SNPs specific for clades and enrichment of genes affected by the SNPs.

— Kay Nieselt (@Kay_Bioinfo) July 22, 2019

4. Mark Keller
Best Poster, BioVis at Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology, July 2019, Switzerland

5. Leanne Nagels
Best Contribution, Vocal Interaction between Humans Animals and Robots, Aug 2019, United Kingdom
Tweet from PeerJ editor Dan Stowell:

At @VIHAR2019 we were pleased to give two @thePeerJ awards for best papers: to Leanne Nagels, and to Anna Zanoli (collected by Marco Gamba). Congratulations! #vihar2019 pic.twitter.com/hmnJVc3qQ2

— @danstowell@mastodon.social (@mclduk) August 29, 2019

6. Anna Zanoli
Best Contribution, Vocal Interaction between Humans Animals and Robots, Aug 2019, United Kingdom

7. Alan Zambrano
Best Poster, Argentine Workshop on Scientific Computing TACC, Dec 2019, Argentina

Congratulations to Alan Zambrano @alanrzh for winning the PeerJ Award for the best poster at #TACC 2019 in San Luis. @thePeerJ pic.twitter.com/7YCKTNsQxT

— TACC2019 (@tacc2019) December 9, 2019

PeerJ Computer Science awards typically include a free publication (upon submission, peer review, and acceptance) within the open access and peer-reviewed journal PeerJ Computer Science. The award winner is also given the opportunity to be featured on our blog and social media with an interview about their research.

If you are organizing a conference or workshop (either physical or virtual!) and would like to offer a PeerJ Award at your event, do get in touch at communities@peerj.com.

See interviews and the listing of 2019 PeerJ Award winners from all PeerJ subject areas on the PeerJ blog.

Catch up on open access PeerJ Computer Science research at https://peerj.com/computer-science/ or by computer science subject area here.