The 58th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture® (MICRO 2025)  invites submissions from undergraduate and graduate students to participate in the ACM Student Research Competition (SRC). Sponsored by ACM, the SRC at MICRO provides a unique forum for students to present their original research to an audience of experts in the field of computer architecture.

Important Dates & Information

  • Submission Deadline: July 31, 2025 AoE
  • Notification: August 25, 2025 AoE

Submit Abstracts

We welcome submissions covering all areas of MICRO’s broad scope, including but not limited to:

  • Microarchitectural, architectural, compiler, and hybrid techniques for improving system performance, power, energy-efficiency, security, cost, complexity, programmer productivity, predictability, quality of service, reliability, dependability, scalability, sustainability
  • Processor, memory, and storage architectures
  • Multicore and multiprocessor systems
  • Instruction-, thread-, and data-level parallelism
  • Prediction and Speculation
  • Memory Hierarchy
  • Cloud and datacenter-scale computing
  • IoT, mobile, and embedded architecture
  • Interconnection network, router, and network interface architecture
  • Accelerator-based, application-specific, and reconfigurable architectures
  • Architectural support for programming languages, compilation, software development, security and privacy, virtualization
  • Architectures for emerging technologies and applications
  • Architectural support for non-volatile/persistent memory
  • Quantum computing
  • In-/near-memory or in-/near-storage processing
  • Approximate computing and architectural support for approximation
  • Effects of circuits and technology on architecture
  • Architecture modeling and simulation methodologies
  • Evaluation and measurement of real computing systems

The top 3 undergraduate and graduate winners will receive certificates, medals, and monetary prizes. First-place winners in each category (undergraduate and graduate) will advance to the ACM Grand Finals, where they compete against winners from other top ACM conferences. Winning projects will gain broad visibility via ACM’s channels and receive guidance for further development and presentation.

Submission Guidelines

Submit an extended abstract (maximum 800 words) describing your research. Figures and references are not counted in the word limit. Include your name and the name of your advisor(s) and indicate whether you are an undergraduate or a graduate student. For the paper formatting, please refer to the MICRO 2025 submission guideline .

Your abstract should include:

  • Problem and motivation
  • Background and related work
  • Novelty of the approach
  • Preliminary or final results
  • Contributions and significance

All submissions must be made through MICRO 2025 SRC submission site.

Eligibility

A participant and submission in the SRC must meet all the following conditions:

  • Team projects will be accepted from Undergraduate students. One person should be designated by the team to attend the conference and make the oral presentation. Should the designated presenter win first, second or third place in competition only they will receive the medal and monetary award.
  • Only individual research is accepted from Graduate (Masters or PhD program) students; group research projects will not be considered. If a student is part of a group research project and wishes to participate in the SRC, the student may only present his or her own contribution to the project. Only that student will be eligible to receive the medal and monetary award, should he or she win.
  • The abstract must have not appeared before. Novelty is one of the criteria for selection.
  • The abstract and the poster must be authored by the participant.
  • SRC allows parallel submissions of full papers in other conferences, as long as they abide by self-plagiarism rules (e.g., at least 30% of both the SRC abstract and the other publication is unique). That is, any paper needs to be a minimum of 30% different than a prior paper. Thus a full-length version of a paper would have to be at least 30% different than a SRC submission. Again, self-plagiarism rules would still be in effect. For each accepted SRC poster, the abstract will be posted on the MICRO website. The content, however, can be included in a future submission to other conferences or journals.
  • The participant can be from anywhere in the world but must be an ACM student member and must maintain an undergraduate or graduate student status as of the submission deadline. Basic student membership is US $19 per year or less.
  • Accepted participants must register for and attend MICRO 2025 to present their work.

For full eligibility details, visit the ACM SRC participation page .

Selection Process

  • Abstracts will be reviewed by an expert panel for relevance, novelty, and quality.
  • Selected students will participate in a poster session at MICRO 2025.
  • Selected students from each category (graduate and undergraduate) in the poster session will be invited to present in the oral presentation session, where final winners will be selected.

Conatct

For any questions about the submission, please email the MICRO 2025 Student Research Competition Co-Chairs (Yongwoo Lee or Youngsok Kim).