REU Symposium 2025

2025 Symposium for Undergraduate Research in Data Science, Systems, and Security (REU Symposium 2025)

Collocated at the 25th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2025)
One day in November 12-15, 2025, Washington DC, USA

Description
Undergraduate research plays an important role in attracting our best undergraduates to continue towards graduate education in the science and engineering fields. Publishing research in a professional venue is part of the training for future researchers. The National Science Foundation (NSF) provides support for undergraduate research within the Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program. The goal of this Symposium is to provide a venue for students to publish their research done as part of the REU program. The symposium seeks original submissions in research areas that are currently funded by the NSF’s directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) or other related directorates. The research topics of this symposium focus on Data Science, Systems, and Security. Research done by undergraduate researchers without explicit funding sources or via funding from similar programs such as Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP) are also eligible to submit.

This REU Symposium has been held since 2021. More information can be found at REU Symposium 2021, REU Symposium 2022, REU Symposium 2023, REU Symposium 2024.

To promote research experiences in K-12, starting 2023, high school students are also eligible to submit although it is highly recommended such submissions are in collaboration with undergraduate students and/or faculty mentors.

The key requirement for this Symposium is that the submission’s lead author must be an undergraduate student or high school student.

Important Dates

  • Paper submission due date: Monday, September 1, 2025
  • Decision notification: October 1, 2025
  • Camera-ready due date: October 15, 2025
  • Symposium: one day in November 12-15, 2025

Paper Submission

Authors are invited to submit original papers, which have not been published elsewhere and which are not currently under consideration for another journal, conference or workshop. Paper submissions should be limited to a maximum of ten (10) pages, in the IEEE 2-column format (link), including the bibliography and any possible appendices. Submissions longer than 10 pages will be rejected without review. All submissions will be triple-blind reviewed by the Program Committee based on technical quality, relevance to scope of the conference, originality, significance, and clarity. The following sections give further information for authors. Please refer to the ICDM regular submission requirement for more information .

Submission link: All papers must be submitted via the conference submission system for the symposium.

Triple blind review: The authors shall omit their names from the submission. For formatting templates with author and institution information, simply replace all these information items in the template by “Anonymous”. In the submission, the authors should refer to their own prior work like the prior work of any other author, and include all relevant citations. This can be done either by referring to their prior work in the third person or referencing papers generically. For example, if your name is Smith and you have worked on clustering, instead of saying “We extend our earlier work on distance-based clustering (Smith 2019),” you might say “We extend Smith’s earlier work (Smith 2019) on distance-based clustering.” The authors shall exclude citations to their own work which is not fundamental to understanding the paper, including prior versions (e.g., technical reports, unpublished internal documents) of the submitted paper. Hence, do not write: “In our previous work [3]” as it reveals that citation 3 is written by the current authors. The authors shall remove mention of funding sources, personal acknowledgments, and other such auxiliary information that could be related to their identities. These can be reinstituted in the camera-ready copy once the paper is accepted for publication. The authors shall make statements on well-known or unique systems that identify an author, as vague in respect to identifying the authors as possible. The submitted files should be named with care to ensure that author anonymity is not compromised by the file names. For example, do not name your submission “Smith.pdf”, instead give it a name that is descriptive of the title of your paper, such as “ANewApproachtoClustering.pdf” (or a shorter version of the same).

Reproducibility requirement: Algorithms and resources used in a paper should be described as completely as possible to allow reproducibility. This includes experimental methodology, empirical evaluations, and results. Authors are strongly encouraged to make their code and data publicly available whenever possible. In addition, authors are strongly encouraged to also report, whenever possible, results for their methods on publicly available datasets.

Proceeding: Accepted papers will be included in the ICDM Workshop Proceedings (separate from ICDM Main Conference Proceedings), and each workshop paper requires a full registration. Meanwhile, duplicate submissions of the same paper to more than one ICDM workshop are forbidden.

At least one author of each accepted paper is required to attend the symposium and present the paper. All accepted papers by the symposium will be included in the conference proceedings.

Symposium Organization

Program Chairs

Program Committee Members (Tentative)