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 13, 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 13, 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