Agro-Geoinformatics 2026 Student Competition: All students are invited and encouraged to enter the Agro-Geoinformatics 2026 Best Student Paper Competition. Finalists will be selected by a committee to present their papers during a special session at the conference. The awards include cash awards for First-Place, Second-Places, and Third-Places. Besides the monetary awards, awardees will also receive the award certificates. Award-winning papers will be recommended to the conference special issue. To participate in the best student paper competition, a student should submit a full, final, camera-ready paper formatted according to the IEEE conference paper template to the conference full paper submission site and send the participation form with the following materials to info@agro-geoinformatics.org by June 1, 2026:

  1. A signed letter from a faculty advisor stating that the student will (1) present the paper if accepted, (2) publish the full paper in the Agro-Geoinformatics 2026 Proceedings or special issue, and (3) register and participate in the conference.
  2. Proof of your student status.

Competition guidelines:

  1. The student must be the first/principal author.
  2. Each student can only submit one paper for consideration in the competition.
  3. The student must be in school on July 10, 2026.
  4. The student must attend Agro-Geoinformatics 2026 and present the paper.
  5. The student will publish the paper in the Agro-Geoinformatics 2026 Proceedings or the conference related special issue. The published paper should be the same paper (with minor changes) for the competition.
  6. The full paper must be formatted according to IEEE template.
  7. The same guidelines on format and other requirements for general conference papers are also applicable to the competition papers. The only special requirement is on the references. All references should include the DOI (when available). The student should make sure all references are being able to be validated. Any invalid reference may disqualify a paper for winning an award.
  8. The conference follows the IEEE AI Policy for the competition papers.

For additional questions on the student paper competition, please contact Dr. Ruixin Yang (ryang@gmu.edu), the competition committee chair for the Student Best Paper Award.