Poster and Presentation Formats

Poster PDF specifications: 48 inches x 36 inches or 36 inches x 48 inches. You may design this in any application you would like, but please make sure you submit a PDF of the final design. If you are new to this, we strongly recommend using Microsoft PowerPoint. Note that you will need to manually change the size of your slides; refer to Microsoft’s instructions for more information.

Eligibility

• Any graduate or undergraduate student may submit a research poster, regardless of your program of study.
• The research should have significant artificial intelligence, data or computational sciences component to be considered; researchers from many disciplines — social sciences, basic and applied sciences, engineering, business, education, and others — use data science or computational science and would be eligible to submit a poster.
• Note: Your research does NOT have to fit in with the theme of the Symposium.
• You or another presenter MUST be available to present your poster in person at the Symposium event.

Faculty may submit posters but won’t be eligible for poster judging or prizes.

Format

During the session, students will give a traditional poster presentation during the poster session. The 2026 event has passed.

How to Submit a Poster

If you would like to submit a poster, you must:

1. Interested submitters must submit a PDF file of their poster and register for the ICDS Symposium.
2. **note: must adhere to the sizing and naming conventions listed above.

Awards

1st Prize award of $500

2nd Prize award of $250

3rd Prize award of $100

*Any monetary funds will be deposited to the student’s bursar account*