GCON2025 Student Research Forum (SRF) Guidelines

Event Dates: June 18–20, 2025

Venue: North Eastern Regional Institute of Science and Technology (NERIST), Nirjuli, Arunachal Pradesh, India

Organized by: IEEE Guwahati Subsection in association with NERIST

1. Objective

The Student Research Forum (SRF) at GCON2025 aims to:

• Provide a national platform for early career researchers (UG/PG/PhD students) to present unpublished or published research work for review

• Facilitate academic networking and expert feedback.

• Inspire interdisciplinary collaboration.

• Recognize excellence in student-led technical research.

• Provide a platform to attend popular keynotes from experts, tutorials and regular papers.

2. Eligibility

• Open to UG, PG, and PhD students currently enrolled in recognized academic institutions.

• The first author must be a student and the presenter.

3. Important Points for SRF Submission

• Submit poster (template attached) of the unpublished or published research work for review

• The publication will not be included in the conference proceedings

• A limited number of posters will be accepted for presentation.

• Once the poster is accepted for presentation in SRF, student registration is mandatory for presenting the poster in SRF. The registration includes access to GCON2025 sessions, participation certificate, meal, tea/coffee and SRF events.

4. Research Areas

• AI, Data Science, Allied Areas and Applications

• Communications, Networks, IoT, Green and Renewable Technology

• Signal Processing and Multimedia

• VLSI, Nanotechnology, Circuits and Systems, Computer Architecture and Embedded Systems

• Control Systems, Power & Energy, Power Electronics

• Cryptography, Security and Privacy

5. Important

• Poster Submission Opens - May 24, 2025

• Submission Deadline - June 6, 2025

• Acceptance Notification – June 9, 2025

  Other important contents required for the website:

  1. Link to upload the poster https://forms.gle/KDdXL4wx83F47Afp7.

  2. Template for the poster download here.

6. Awards & Recognition

One Best Poster Award and Certificate of Participation to all shortlisted presenters

7. Contact

SRF Convenors:

1. Salil Kashyap, Department of Electronics & Electrical Engineering, IIT Guwahati

   Email: salilkashyap@iitg.ac.in

2. P. Devachandra Singh, Department of Electrical Engineering, NERIST

   Email: pds@nerist.ac.in