Description: The Peter Luh Memorial Best Paper Award for Young Researcher, presented at the IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE). An award is established in honor of Professor Peter Luh’s dedicated service to raising the profile of Automation and supporting young researchers early in their career. Peter Luh was a co-founder of CASE and the founding Editor in Chief of the automation journal, Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE). He was also noted by many of the Robotics and Automation Society volunteers as the first person to reach out to them early in their careers and encourage them to become volunteers. For this reason, this award is specifically dedicated to young researchers with a PhD exam not older than five years, and the award does not overlap nor conflict with any other award at the CASE conference.
Established: 2023
Prize: A single award is given to the best paper. Up to two awards are given as an exceptional case. A prize of $1,000 and a certificate are given to the young leading researcher of the winning paper, also when multiple authors are involved. In the exceptional case of two winning papers, the young leading researchers of each paper will share the $1000 prize equally.
Funding: The award is to be sponsored by the conference. If not accounted for in the conference budgeting, the award will not be given.
Eligibility: All papers presented at the annual CASE conference by a young leading researcher are eligible. The young researcher must hold a Ph.D. degree not older than five years on the last day of the month when the conference is held. To be a leading researcher means that the young researcher is one of the main authors of the paper. There are no restrictions as to IEEE membership, organization, nationality, race, creed, sex, or age. Eligibility and Selection process shall comply with procedures and regulation established in IEEE and Society/Council governing documents, particularly with IEEE Policy 4.4 on Awards Limitations. Previous award winners are not eligible for substantially the same achievements (per IEEE Policies 4.4: An individual shall receive only one award for a given achievement, unless the significance merits a higher award, which may be given in the following year or thereafter.)
Basis for Judging: Papers are judged by the Award Committee based on technical merit, originality, relevance and potential impact on automation, clarity of the written paper, and quality of the conference presentation.
Presentation: The award will be announced and presented at the same annual IEEE CASE conference.
