Test-of-Time Award

ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (AsiaCCS) is an annual conference launched in 2006. AsiaCCS will give the inaugural Test-of-Time Award in 2025 to recognize papers that have had a lasting impact on the field.

  • Michail Maniatakos & Yinqian Zhang (AsiaCCS 2025 program chairs)
  • Debin Gao & Alvaro Cardenas (AsiaCCS 2024 program chairs)
  • Surya Nepal & Gene Tsudik (AsiaCCS 2023 program chairs)
  • XiaoFeng Wang (AsiaCCS steering committee representative) – Chair

Any person can nominate a paper published at AsiaCCS for the award. Self-nomination is also allowed. To nominate a paper, fill in the online form with the following information.

  • Paper title, paper authors and year of publication
  • Reason for nomination
  • Name, affiliation, and email address of the nominator

The reason for nomination should be at most 3000 characters explaining why the paper has stood the test of time, what influence it has had on the field, and the impact the paper has had.

Deadline: 1 May 2025

Click here to start your nomination

To be eligible for the award given in 2025, a paper must have been published at AsiaCCS between 2006 and 2010 (both inclusive). Papers authored or co-authored by the award committee members are not eligible to receive the award. Please refer to ACM Guidelines on Conflict of Interest for ACM Awards Committee.

The Test-of-Time award will be presented at AsiaCCS 2025 (Hanoi, Vietnam, August 25-29, 2025) and the recipient will give a (short) talk about some background on what led to the paper, or what their view on the topic is now and what has happened to the area in the meantime. The recipient’s registration fee will be waived.