2026 IEEE World Congress on SERVICES
(SERVICES 2026)

13-18 July 2026, Sydney, Australia


TVSVC 2026 Awards

Outstanding Leadership Award (OLA) of IEEE-CS TC on Services Computing
Sumi Helel, University of Bologna
For demonstrating transformative leadership both through strategic intellectual vision and through large-scale community execution

Research Innovation Awards (RIA) of IEEE-CS TC on Services Computing

Hong Mei, Peking University
For his ground-breaking work in service-based software engineering and systems and produced fundamental and sustained contributions to promoting services computing as a modern software paradigm

Outstanding Service Award (OSA) of IEEE-CS TC on Services Computing

Jian Yang, Beijing Normal-Hong Kong Baptist University (BNBU)
For exhibiting extraordinary leadership, dedication, and impactful contributions in services computing over her distinguished career

Rising Star Award (RSA) of IEEE-CS TC on Services Computing

Xiaolong Xu, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology
For outstanding contributions to edge service offloading, privacy-preserving service deployment, and intelligent service caching in cloud-edge environments, advancing services computing for IoT and IoV

Women in Services Computing Award (WISCA) of IEEE-CS TC on Services Computing

Houda Chakiri, Al Akhawayn University
For exemplifying the spirit and mission of the WISCA award through her sustained, impactful, and service-oriented contributions to the fields of services computing, digital innovation, and inclusive technology development

 

Best Papers Awards

IEEE CLOUD 2026

Best paper

ContaTOE: FPGA SmartNIC-Based TCP Offloading for Scalable Multi-Container Networking

Tatsuya Kawano, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Gongyu Deng, Takaaki Fukai, Takahiro Hirofuchi


Best student paper

Penny: Reducing Storage Costs for Ethereum Synchronization with Hybrid Storage Devices

Yunhyeong Seo, Inhwi Hwang, Hyeonsang Eom, Jin Yong Ha

IEEE EDGE 2026

Best paper

Benchmarking Edge TSDBs for Multi-Tenant Network Workloads under Container Budgets: Tail Latency, Jitter, and Failure Frontiers

Fuming Fu


Best student paper

HASA: Subnet Allocation for Compute-Constrained Model-Heterogeneous Federated Learning

Amir Hossein Shahdadian, Ahmed M. Abdelmoniem, Mahdi Taheri, Samira Nazari, Christian Herglotz

IEEE ICDH 2026

Best paper

MUSIC-CAR: A Multi-label Complex Health-Related Activity Recognition Dataset from Smartphone Sensors

Kavin Chandrasekaran, Luke Buquicchio, Emmanuel Agu, Elke Rundensteiner

Best student paper

SAPIF: A Severity-Aware Framework for Pressure Injury Forecasting

David Sommerfield, Katia Obraczka, Jonathan Casper, Hitesh Chudasama, Collin Engstrom

IEEE ICWS 2026

Best paper

LLMFlowGO: An LLM-Driven System for Workflow Generation and Optimization

Jia Xu, Weibin Zhang, Xuejun Li, Xiao Liu, Peilin He, Jinglong Fang, Yun Yang


Best student paper

JPSTL: Joint Probabilistic Signal Temporal Logic for Predictive Composition Monitoring

Yixuan Chen, Zhangbing Zhou, Deng Zhao, Jiangwei Li

IEEE QSW 2026

Best paper

MetaMorphQ: Physics-Based Metamorphic Testing of Variational Quantum Circuits

Ngoc Nhi Nguyen, John Le, Thai Vu, Thi Thuy Nga Nguyen, Jun Shen

Best student paper

A Multi-Level Compiler Pipeline for Qoala Quantum Internet Programs

Sacha Bernheim, Bart van Der Vecht, Davide Ferrari, Diego Rivera, Stephanie Wehner

IEEE SEE 2026

Best paper

ST-DGL: Spatio-Temporal Dynamic Graph Learning for Mobile Edge QoS Prediction

Guobing Zou, Fei Zhao, Shengxiang Hu, Song Yang, Shengye Pang, Yanglan Gan, Bofeng Zhang

Best student paper

Adaptive Hierarchical Model Collaboration for Vehicle-Edge-Cloud Perception Services in CAVs

Xiaoyong Jiang, Songyuan Li, Xiaoyan Liu, Yeping Zhu, Jianbing Zhang, Jiwei Huang

Distinguished Reviewer Awards

 

Ahmed Alquraan

University of Waterloo, Canada

Devis Bianchini

University of Brescia, Italy

Antonio Brogi

Università di Pisa, Italy

Chaochao Chen

Zhejiang University, China

Haopeng Chen

Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

Sara Comai

Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Kai Di

Southeast University, China

Chengzu Dong

Lingnan University, Hong Kong, China

Fei Gao

Inspur (Beijing) Electronic Information Industry Co., Ltd., China

Massimiliano Garda

University of Brescia, Italy

Ying Liu

Northeastern University, China

Yun Ma

Peking University, China

Francisco Martin-Fernandez

IBM Research, United States

Wolfgang Mauerer

Technical University of Applied Science Regensburg, Germany

Thanasis G. Papaioannou

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Greece

Zitai Qiu

Macquarie University, Australia

Guiling Wang

North China University of Technology, China

Haibo Wang

University of Kentucky, United States

Lei Wang

Nanjing Forestry University, China

Xianzhi Wang

University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

Jia Xu

Anhui University, China

Sami Yangui

CNRS-LAAS, France

 

 

WISC 2026 Scholarships

Temitope Damilola Elijah, Georgia Southern University
Zayneb Cherif, Columbia University

Outstanding Service Awards

Jo Aboud

Yinxuan Chen

Guanjie Cheng

Venus Haghighi

Fahmida Islam

Zhizhong Liu

Zhihui Lyu

Adnan Mahmood

Rob McElligott

Zhiying Tu

Shuang Wang

Yingjie Wang

Hanchuan Xu

Xuyun Zhang