PhD Forum

Mentorship program

IDA 2026 will include a mentorship program. Students participating in the PhD track will be paired with experienced researchers (e.g., IDA Senior Program Committee members) and meetings will be arranged during the conference to allow discussion between the students and mentors.

Submissions for the PhD forum

The IDA symposium particularly welcomes contributions by graduate students. To support this objective, the symposium will have a dedicated forum for PhD student research and it offers reduced registration rates to all students.

If you are a PhD student and would like to present your research at the symposium, please prepare a two-page paper containing the names and affiliations of all authors (the PhD student, as well as his/her supervisor(s), advisor(s) and/or main collaborators). The paper may include the following contents:

• The problem, with an argument of why it is important,
• The goal and the research questions,
• The planned approach and methods for solving the problem,
• An outline of what is already known about the research problem,
• The expected results from the research work like overviews, algorithms, better understanding of a concept, a pilot, model or system,

In case your submission is accepted for presentation you will be required to make a poster as follows:

• Poster: Posters should be in A0 (portrait) format. The PDF of your poster must be available online one week before the conference (April 14, 2026).

Besides the poster, the participants are welcome to prepare additional materials such as videos or demos.

• Where relevant, and to the extent possible, we will strive to make tables available during the PhD forum which you can use to run the demo/video on your laptop.

PhD papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format. The submission interface is available here: TBA

Please send your submission to our submission system until February 23, 2026. In addition, please make sure that you choose the right track (PhD Forum), not the regular track. The submission form will open after the deadline of the regular track. Please contact our PhD forum chair (Christine Sinoquet), should you have any questions!

Important dates:

Two-page paper submission deadline	February 23, 2026 AOE
Notification of acceptance:	March 2, 2026
Registration (for accepted submissions)	March 16, 2026
Poster upload (for accepted submissions)	April 14, 2026 AOE