ETS2025 Tallinn, Estonia
30th IEEE European Test Symposium
May 26 - 30, 2025
Tallinn, ESTONIA

PhD forum

The ETS 2025 PhD Forum aims at the exchange of ideas and experiences of young PhD students, whose research interests are mainly related to the areas of electronic-based circuit and system testing, reliability, security and validation.

The PhD forum provides an excellent opportunity for young students attending their first years in their PhD academic path, to present their ongoing work and get feedback from experts in the field. The forum will be organised as a special poster session and selected candidates will have the opportunity to give a short presentation. During ETS 2025, the PhD students will have the opportunity to discuss their ongoing research work with very well-known specialists in the field both from academia and industry. This offers a good opportunity to the PhD students to receive valuable feedback, while gaining exposure in the job market. Furthermore, this forum also provides a great chance to industry experts to meet junior researchers, giving an avenue for incorporating the latest research developments into their companies.

Eligibility

The PhD Forum is dedicated to PhD students working on ETS related topics while still being in their first years of the PhD program, i.e. not yet eligible for the McCluskey Best Doctoral Thesis Award participation. Note that acceptance to the PhD Forum does not block a future submission for the “McCluskey Best Doctoral Thesis Award”.

Benefits
  • A poster presentation at the PhD Forum and a short presentation in a dedicated slot during ETS 2025
  • Eligibility to win the PhD Forum Award
  • Contacts to professionals from industry and academia
Key Dates (Midnight, AoE)
  • Submission deadline: February 21, 2025
  • Notification of acceptance: March 7, 2025
  • Camera-ready manuscript: March 21, 2025
  • Author registration: March 31, 2025
Publication and Presentation

By submitting a contribution, the authors agree to register and present at ETS 2025 in case of acceptance. Accepted contributions become part of the Informal Digest of the European Test Week 2025, except the best PhD Forum Award (see below). The informal contributions will not be sent for indexing by IEEE Xplore, but they will be made available to all ETS attendees in electronic format. Thus, a later, more complete, publication of the work in another conference or journal will still be possible.

PhD Forum Award

The PhD forum selection committee will review all the presented papers checking the technical content of the paper and the presentation capacity of the candidates and select the Best PhD forum paper. The PhD Forum Award will be announced during the ETS 2025 closing session. The best paper of the PhD Forum will be allowed two pages in the official publications of the conference indexed by IEEE Xplore.

Submission Guidelines

Submissions should be made electronically as a single PDF file. Click [here] to submit your proposal.

  1. A cover letter of 1 page filled with the PhD information given in the template [here]
  2. An extended abstract of 2 pages (IEEE conference paper style with a minimum font size of 10pt including tables) prepared based on the following guidelines:
  • Motivation & problems that will be addressed in the PhD work (1 page):
    • What are the main problems addressed?
    • How urgent are these problems?
    • What has been done already w.r.t. these problems and what is still missing?
  • Scientific and Technological Excellence of the work (½ page):
    • What are the contributions you expect from your work?
    • Focus on the methodology, expected results, novelty, and possible multidisciplinary aspects
  • Expected Impact (½ page). Describe what impact your work is expected to have either in the short term or in the long term:
    • Will it strengthen industrial competitiveness, growth and sustainability?
    • Will it solve a bottleneck in today’s industry?
    • Will your work establish an essential basis for a new line of scientific and/or technological research and its future uses, not currently anticipated?

 

Contact Information

PhD Forum Chairs

ETS'25 Program Chairs