by Adarsh Patil on Jul 14, 2026 |

ACM Student Research Competition (SRC) @ MICRO 2026


URL: https://www.microarch.org/micro59/submit/src.php

Final Submission Deadline
August 6, 2026

ACM Student Research Competition (SRC)
Co-located with MICRO 2026

The top 3 undergraduate and top 3 graduate winners will receive monetary prizes, certificates, and medals. First-place winners in each category (undergraduate and graduate) will advance to the ACM Grand Finals, where they compete against winners from other top ACM conferences.

Important Dates

  • Submission Deadline: August 6, 2026 AoE (GMT-12)
  • Notification: September 4, 2026 AoE (GMT-12)

Submission link: https://micro2026src.hotcrp.com/

Submission Guidelines
Submit an extended abstract (maximum 800 words) describing your research. Top matter, figures/captions, and references are not counted in the word limit. In the abstract PDF, include your name and the name of your advisor(s), and indicate whether you are an undergraduate or a graduate student. For the paper formatting, please refer to the MICRO 2026 submission guideline .

Your abstract should include:

  • Title
  • List of authors (see Eligibility below for details)
  • Submission category (i.e., graduate student or undergraduate student)
    • Problem and motivation
    • Background and related work
    • Novelty of the approach
    • Preliminary or final results
    • Contributions and significanceTop matter

For full eligibility details, visit the ACM SRC participation page .

Topics of Interest

  • Microarchitectural, architectural, compiler, and hybrid techniques for improving
    • Performance, power, and energy efficiency
    • Security, privacy, and reliability
    • Cost, complexity, and scalability
    • Programmer productivity, predictability, quality of service, and sustainability
  • Processor, memory, and storage architectures
  • Multicore and multiprocessor systems
  • Instruction-, thread-, and data-level parallelism
  • Prediction and Speculation
  • Memory Hierarchy
  • Cloud and datacenter-scale computing
  • IoT, mobile, and embedded architecture
  • Interconnection network, router, and network interface architecture
  • Accelerator-based, application-specific, and reconfigurable architectures
  • Architectural support for programming languages, compilation, software development, security and privacy, virtualization
  • Architectures for emerging technologies and applications
  • Architectural support for non-volatile/persistent memory
  • Quantum computing
  • In-/near-memory or in-/near-storage processing
  • Effects of circuits and technology on architecture
  • Architecture modeling and simulation methodologies
  • Evaluation and measurement of real computing systems

Selection Process

  • Abstracts will be reviewed by an expert panel for relevance, novelty, and quality.
  • Selected students will participate in a poster session at MICRO 2026.
  • Selected students from each category (graduate and undergraduate) in the poster session will be invited to present in the oral presentation session, where final winners will be selected.


Organizers
Co-Chairs: Saugata Ghose, Christina Giannoula