CSrankings.org Paper Awards Program
Effective September 2019
Effective immediately, when a graduate student publishes a paper in a csrankings.org conference with a
CS faculty member and the paper meets the csrankings.org requirements to be counted, then:
- CS will guarantee full travel reimbursement to the conference after the student requests travel
support from GSC and ERGP (see https://engg.ksu.edu/ergp/resources/grad_student_travel/)
and their major professor or faculty coauthor (if different from their major professor). - Additionally, the student will receive at the end of the semester (after the conference)
- For their first csrankings.org publication during their graduate program, students will
receive an Outstanding Research Publication Award and a $500 scholarship - For their second csrankings.org publication during their graduate program, students will
receive an Excellence in Research Award and a $500 scholarship - For their third csrankings.org publication during their graduate program, students will
receive a Distinguished Graduate Research Award and a $2,000 scholarship - For their fourth (or more) csrankings.org publications during their graduate program,
students will receive a $500 scholarship.
- For their first csrankings.org publication during their graduate program, students will
To qualify, the paper must be co-authored with a current CS faculty member and the conference to which
the paper was accepted must have been in csrankings.org when the paper was submitted or presented.
The paper must also be presented at the conference. According to csrankings.org rules, publications must
be at least 6 pages long to be counted.
To apply for the award, the faculty co-author must submit an e-mail request with all the pertinent details
of the publication to the department head requesting approval of the award. The department head will
determine whether to make the award.