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<span style="font-family:Arial; font-size:13pt; font-weight:700">Call for IJCAI 2023 Doctoral Consortium Program</span><br>
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<span class="x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; margin:0px">Students are invited to apply for admission to the doctoral consortium to be held at the IJCAI 2023 conference in Cape Town, South Africa. The conference will take place on
August 19 - 25, 2023, and the doctoral consortium will be held on August 21, 2023, on the last day of the tutorial/workshop program.</span></p>
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<span class="x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; margin:0px">The doctoral consortium provides an opportunity for Ph.D. students to discuss their research interests and career objectives with established researchers in AI, network with
other participants, and receive mentoring about their research interests and career planning/options. </span></p>
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<span class="x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; margin:0px">The doctoral consortium will expose students to different areas of research within AI and help build professional connections within the international community of AI researchers. </span></p>
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<span class="x_ContentPasted0" style="font-weight:700; font-size:13pt; font-family:Arial; margin:0px">Application and Submission Instructions</span></p>
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<span class="x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; margin:0px">Applicants should submit (as a single PDF file) the following: </span></p>
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<span class="x_ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px">A two-page extended abstract that summarizes </span></p>
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<span class="x_ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px">The applicant’s main research directions or challenges (e.g., a potential thesis topic) being investigated, </span></p>
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<span class="x_ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px">The specific contributions made (on the research direction), and </span></p>
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<span class="x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; margin:0px">In particular, please distinguish your research from the current state-of-the-art (e.g., related work), including explaining and discussing existing limitations, novelties
in your approaches, and the soundness of your approaches. </span></p>
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<span class="x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; margin:0px">Moreover, it is important to highlight why you think the proposed approaches have the potential to address your research challenges (e.g., mentioning your prior studies and
experiences). If successful, what are the possible impacts of the research and approaches? If applicable, please also include the potential methods to evaluate the feasibility of the approaches. </span></p>
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<span class="x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; margin:0px">The extended abstract has to be formatted using the IJCAI two-column format (downloadable here:
</span><a href="https://www.ijcai.org/authors_kit" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-safelink="true" data-linkindex="0" class="x_ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; margin:0px; color:rgb(17,85,204); text-decoration:underline">https://www.ijcai.org/authors_kit</span></a><span class="x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; margin:0px">),
and is strictly limited to 2 pages, including references. Submissions are not double-blind, which means the author’s name and affiliation should be included. When writing the extended abstract, remember that the audience is knowledgeable about AI, but not
necessarily about the specific topic of your research.</span></p>
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<span class="x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; margin:0px">Be sure to introduce the content at a level that the general IJCAI 2023 audience can understand your extended abstract. Please also include enough details for the experts to
understand your contributions. Accepted extended abstracts will be published in the IJCAI 2023 Proceedings and will be presented at the doctoral consortium.</span></p>
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<span class="x_ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px">A personal statement (1-2 pages) with answers to the following questions: </span></p>
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<span class="x_ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px">Indicate (cite) around five favorite papers and briefly describe how they influenced your work.</span></p>
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<span class="x_ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px">Please list at least three mentor suggestions (may be chosen from the list of PCs, SPCs, or ACs in IJCAI and related conferences from recent years). For example, such a list is available for IJCAI 2022 at
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<span class="x_ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px">Have you attended the IJCAI DC previously? If not, have you attended DC at other conferences? Please say which one(s) and what was most useful to you. </span></p>
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<span class="x_ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px">What type of job do you desire after graduation (research, teaching, development, etc.), and what do you envision doing for the next five years after graduation?</span></p>
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<span class="x_ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px">Finally, we require a short supporting letter from your supervisor/professor. This letter is to be sent to doctoral@ijcai-23.org via email, by the supervisor/professor, with the subject “IJCAI 2023: Recommendation
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<span class="x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; margin:0px">Doctoral consortium applications can be submitted via</span></p>
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<a href="https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/IJCAI2023/Submission/Index" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-safelink="true" data-linkindex="2" class="x_ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; margin:0px; color:rgb(17,85,204); text-decoration:underline">https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/IJCAI2023/Submission/Index</span></a><span class="x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; margin:0px"> by
choosing “Doctoral consortium” in the drop-down menu. </span></p>
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<span class="x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; margin:0px">The selection process will consider the quality of the submitted applications and the progress of the applicants. </span></p>
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<span class="x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; margin:0px">All students, including DC applicants, can apply for student travel grants separately on the IJCAI 2023 website. A limited number of travel grants will be available. </span></p>
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<span class="x_ContentPasted0" style="font-weight:700; font-size:13pt; font-family:Arial; margin:0px">Important Dates </span></p>
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<span class="x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; margin:0px">Submission Deadline: March 3 (23:59 UTC-12 or Anywhere on Earth (AOE))</span></p>
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<span class="x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; margin:0px">Author Notification: April 20 (23:59 UTC-12 or Anywhere on Earth (AOE))</span></p>
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<span class="x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; margin:0px">Camera Ready Deadline: TBD</span></p>
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<span class="x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; margin:0px">Doctoral Consortium: August 21, 2023 (tentatively) </span></p>
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<span class="x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; margin:0px">Please send all enquiries about the DC program to the IJCAI 2023 Doctoral Consortium co-chairs: </span></p>
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<span class="x_ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px">Dorothea Baumeister (Federal University of Applied Administrative Science, Germany)</span></p>
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<span class="x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; margin:0px">at the following address: doctoral@ijcai-23.org.</span></p>
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