Call for Paper - Doctoral Consortium Track

Important Dates

  • Paper Submission: May 1, 2026
  • Paper Notification: July 24, 2026
  • Paper Camera-Ready: August 21, 2026
The DSAA'2026 Doctoral Consortium provides an opportunity for doctoral students to discuss and explore their research interests and career objectives with a panel of established researchers in data science and analytics.
Doctoral students interact with other researchers through participation in conference events, receive feedback on current research, and guidance on future research directions. Papers accepted to the Doctoral Consortium will be published in the DSAA'2026 conference proceedings.
Submissions reflect the student's research progress in thesis development. They should clearly summarize research questions, highlight related work, analyze gaps and challenges, describe research achievements, justify contributions, and discuss future research plans.
Remember that the audience for your thesis summary includes people who are knowledgeable about data science, but are not necessarily experts in the specific topic of your thesis. Introduce the content at a high level so that the general data science researchers can understand, but also include sufficient low-level details so that the experts will appreciate your unique contribution.

Paper Submissions

All papers should be submitted electronically via OpenReview (under the Doctoral Consortium).
Each paper should be no more than seven (7) pages of technical content plus additional pages for references, formatted in the standard 2-column U.S. letter IEEE Conference template. See the IEEE Proceedings Author Guidelines for further instructions.
All submissions will be blind reviewed for technical quality, relevance, originality, significance, and clarity. Author names and affiliations must be omitted, and references adjusted to preserve anonymity. Non-compliant submissions will be rejected without review.
Non-anonymous papers previously issued as technical reports cannot be considered. An exception applies to arXiv papers published at least one month before submission, provided the title and abstract differ from the arXiv version.

Proceedings and Indexing

All accepted full-length papers will be published by IEEE and will be submitted for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. The conference proceedings will also be submitted for EI indexing through INSPEC by IEEE.

Important Policies

  1. Reproducibility & Supplementary The advancement of data science and analytics depends heavily on reproducibility. We strongly recommend that the authors release their code and data to the public. Authors can provide an optional two (2) page supplement at the end of their submitted paper (it needs to be in the same PDF file after the paper's references). This supplement can only be used to include (i) information necessary for reproducing the experimental results reported in the paper (e.g., various algorithmic and model parameters and configurations, hyper-parameter search spaces, details related to dataset filtering and train/test splits, software versions, detailed hardware configuration, etc.), and (ii) any data, pseudo-code and proofs that due to space limitations, could not be included in the main manuscript.
  2. Authorship The list of authors at the time of submission is final and cannot be changed.
  3. Dual Submissions DSAA is an archival publication venue; submissions that have been previously published, accepted, or are currently under-review at peer-review publication venues (i.e., journals, conferences, workshops with published proceedings, etc.) are not permitted. DSAA has a strict no dual submission policy.
  4. Conflicts of Interest (COI) COIs must be declared at the time of submission in the submission system. COIs include employment at the same institution at the time of submission or in the past three years, collaborations during the past three years, advisor/advisee relationships, plus family and close friends. Program chairs are not allowed to submit any papers. Track chairs and special session chairs and other function chairs are not allowed to make submissions to their own tracks.
  5. Attendance At least one author of each accepted paper must register in full and attend the conference to present the paper. No-show papers will be removed from the IEEE Xplore proceedings.
  6. AI-Generated Text The use of artificial intelligence (AI)-generated text in an article shall be disclosed in the acknowledgements section of any paper submitted to an IEEE Conference or Periodical. The sections of the paper that use AI-generated text shall have a citation to the AI system used to generate the text.

Enquiries

General enquiries about Doctoral Consortium paper submissions should be submitted to the Track Chairs.
Doctoral Consortium Chairs
  • Carlos Ordonez, University of Houston, USA
  • Xudong Liu, The University of North Florida, USA
  • Abhishek Santra, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA