SRDS 2025 PhD Forum

Call for Contributions

The SRDS PhD Forum provides a friendly environment for PhD students to present early-stage or ongoing work on reliable and distributed systems, receive feedback from peers and experts, and discuss career challenges. The forum consists of two poster sessions and we also plan short presentation slots in the main conference program.

Submission Guidelines

  • 3-page contribution + references (IEEE format), Sole student author
  • Proposals should have the following structure:
    • Title;
    • A 150- to 200-word abstract;
    • Planned contribution and relevance;
    • State of the art and problem domain;
    • Originality and related work;
    • Research questions and main challenges;
    • Research methodology and overall approach.

Awards Program

SRDS Ph.D. Forum Award: All Ph.D. Forum attending students presenting at the poster sessions and at the short presentations in the main track will be considered  for the “SRDS Ph.D. Forum Award”.

Evaluation Criteria

  • Relevance to SRDS (25%)
  • Research quality (25%)
  • Methodology soundness (20%)
  • Presentation clarity (20%)
  • Innovation potential (10%)

Deadline

July 15, 2025 (AoE) August 1, 2025 (AoE)

Submission

Please send your proposal to Andrea Bondavalli (andrea.bondavalli@unifi.it), and you should receive a reply acknowledging your submission.

Important Dates

  • Notification: July 22, 2025 August 8, 2025
  • PhD Forum Author Registration: August 15, 2025

Chair

For more info, please contact Andrea Bondavalli (andrea.bondavalli@unifi.it)